BOYS
A is for Awful
B is for Barf-breath
C is for Crazy
Karen has three older brothers, and sometimes they are a pain. They won't take Karen to the movies. And they don't let her play football with them.
Karen is so mad she decides not to talk to any boy -- not her daddy or even the boy pets in her family. And maybe then Karen's brothers will stop treating her like a girl!
Alright. I can't believe I read this. Another Karen book so soon? I was kinda hoping that there'd be more of Charlie and Sam in it, but there wasn't really =/
Anyways, this one opens with Karen at school. Her pretend-husband Ricky is busy playing with Bobby, and Karen is upset at being neglected. At recess, she decides to try to make things better by asking him if she can join in and play football with him and his friends. Ricky laughs and says no, because she is a girl. Girls can't play football. Karen gets mad, yells about how she plays football all the time with her brothers, and then stomps off.
That weekend, she's at the big house, meaning with Kristy and all her brothers. At first, everything goes well. Karen has a great time hanging out with her big family, playing dress up in Kristy's clothes, and even hanging out with Sam and Charlie and their big kid friends. However, it all changes when Sam and Charlie and their friends decide to go out to see a movie. Karen and David Michael immediately get up to go, but are quickly shut down. Karen assumes that it's because she's a girl, and decides not to talk to boys anymore.
She goes to school on Monday, and recruits Nancy and Hannie to join her in hating boys. They even make a "We Hate Boys" club. Nancy isn't mad at any boys, and Hannie's only mildly annoyed with some of them, but they decide to go through with it. Originally Karen tries to get them to stop talking to all boys ever, but eventually settles on letting them do whatever they want outside of school. But in the meantime, as long as they're in school, there will be no talking to boys at all.
At first, the boys don't really seem to care. Pamela, Karen's enemy, decides to take advantage of the situation and creates the "We ♥ Boys" club. She and her friends start talking to Ricky and the boys, being especially nice to them, giving them treats and what not. Ultimately, Pamela hopes to steal Ricky from Karen. Well, the boys start noticing the attention, and start liking it. Karen's not impressed.
Eventually two weeks go by, and Karen's at the big house again. There, her brothers invite her to play football. Karen's surprised, because she thinks she's been excluded this whole time because she's a girl, and is happy to hear that her brothers think she's great at football. She decides to stop hating boys. But the story's not over yet: Karen needs to apologize and win Ricky back!
As an apology, Karen decides to hold a Brother's Day party, and invite all her brothers and Ricky and her dad. She makes them presents, and bakes cookies and has punch. She then apologizes to everyone and everything is all well. Ricky is there too, and they make up and decide to try not to fight anymore. Ricky even says that Karen can play football with him at school.
At school, Karen and Pamela get into a fight, and Karen bets Pamela that she can't play football. Of course, Pamela makes a fool of herself. It doesn't matter though, because soon everyone is playing, and Karen and Ricky are stronger than ever!
Random Thoughts:
- The seriousness in which Ricky takes Karen and their pretend-marriage is frightening haha I don't know of any second graders who would take things that seriously. I could see Karen being all for it, but for Ricky to humor her this long? That boy is a saint!
- I had a pretend-boyfriend in kindergarten. We would pretend that we were cats and hang out on the play structure together. But I stopped having pretend-boyfriends by the time I entered grade 1.
- It's plain to see that Charlie and Sam don't want to take their little siblings out to the movies when they're hanging out with their friends. Even if they weren't going to be seeing anything inappropriate, it's a whole different scenario of actually being responsible for your younger siblings, rather than them just happening to be around.
- Charlie and Sam are pretty good sports about it all though. They make obligatory appearances to Karen's party, which is nice.
- Hannie and Nancy need to grow backbones. Seriously.
- I can't tell if the "romance" between Karen and Ricky make me take Mary Anne and Logan more seriously, or less seriously haha
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