Jessi's Wish Part 1
I know what you’re thinking: how can she snark the story about cancer? Well, the story delves more into the ‘littlest cancer patient’ style than actual ‘cancer! oh noes!’. Thank God, otherwise I'd feel completely heartless as opposed to just slightly heartless
So, let's dig in to this Very Special Episode, Jessi's Wish
Now, onto the cover, which was lovingly yanked off of google after the google police warned me that dibbly-fresh 'may contain malicious content'.
I just have one thing to say. Jessi? Burn that shirt. Now. I’m not sure whether it’s red with orange checkers or if it’s red with pink checkers. Anyway, burn that shirt, please. Becca and Cancer Kid look okay-that’s one messed up kitty though.
Chapter One
Jessi blah Squirt blah Becca blah family blah exposition blah. Thankfully, we start this chapter off at Jessi's house and NOT Mme Noelle's Dance Class from Hell.
Anyway, Becca is sad. Jessi is nosy and bugs her for reasons. This ‘Kids Club’ after school might end because the sponsor didn’t want to deal with the brats anymore...my mistake, he’s leaving. Also, turns out there’s a kid that Becca knows who has cancer-Danielle, who shall not appear in any more books after this one. Ouch. As I’ll forget her name after the third chapter/won’t care, I’m taking a page out of Nick Naylor’s book.
Sucks for you, Cancer Kid. Anyway, back to Kids Club. Becca is crying her eyes out because oh noes, the after school activity might go away. Becca? It’s not like you won’t see these kids during school hours. However, Jessi is a true member of the cult and has an idea forming in her head about how she can get the Kids Club back on its feet. Wait, huh? Whatever happened to Cancer Kid? She just got a name drop. It was like WAAAAAH KIDS CLUB and oh yeah cancer kid WAAAAH KIDS CLUB.
So, Jessi is perturbed. If there’s something strange dealing with a kid: who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters! THE BSC! She does.
Chapter Two
Traditional BSC introduction! Let's see, highlights...Mal thinks it's unfair that her parents won't let her get a nose job. Sweetie? YOU'RE TWELVE. Wait until you grow boobs and go to college before you decide to fuck up your face. Kristy is a bitch, Mary Anne is a sap, Dawn's a hippie, Stacy is sophisticated and Claudia is "exotic". Exotic. If this wasn't coming from the black kid with no personality, I'd call unfortunate implications.
Chapter Three
Blah blah history blah Kid-Kits blah officers blah club blah NEXT!
That done with? Good. Time for the meeting. Wait, we only have three pages left? SHIT, TIME TO CRAM! Jessi brings up that the Kids Club might not exist anymore. Oh noes! Whatever shall we do? She then brings up the idea that she could run it. Good job mindslave. K. Ron taught you well. Naturally, everybody thinks that the idea is so totally awesome and wants to help/volunteer on their own, Kristy being the one who's the most gung-ho about it. I'm gonna let David Tennant express my feelings.
Chapter Four
Jessi goes to meet the sponsor. Naturally, he thinks that she’s up to something when she says she wants to help. She’s an eleven year old, shouldn’t she be like...I don’t know, worried about middle school stuff? Oh yeah, and she’s black. Seeing as there are OMG NO BLACK PEOPLE IN STONYBROOK that’s cause for concern. Anyway, he lets her help. Like he wouldn’t. Anyway, yay! Bonus life! So, Jessi goes back to the club and turns out everybody’s helping out with a different thing. Kristy is working at a day care, Dawn is working at a center for kids with physical disabilities, Claudia and Stacy both get to work at places with their one characteristic comes into play-come on, guess where they work! Guess! Stacy is volunteering at a diabetes center and Claudia is teaching ‘Art For Brats’ at the community center. Mary Anne is working with this kid with brain damage and Mallory is working at a recreation program.
Wait a moment. This means we don't have a babysitting subplot!
Wait a moment. This means that we have a volunteering subplot.
What I want to know is how did they all get jobs so fast? Didn’t one of them have to fill out paperwork or something like that? I know that when I volunteered at my church’s Vacation Bible School, I had to fill out contact information and things of the like. When my mother volunteered at my school as a chaperone, they had to freaking fingerprint her. At least with Kristy and Dawn they should have to fill out paperwork saying something like ‘I won’t hurt the kids’ or something like that. Probably a background check will be required also. And why does Stoneybrook have all this nifty stuff for kids? Seriously. A center for kids with physical disabilities AND a diabetes center? Does Stoneybrook just attract people with disabilities or something? Do they make the tourism industry say stuff about it?
"Having trouble with your insert-horrible-disease-and-or-disability-here? Do you wish that you had someone who could understand your insert-horrible-disease-and-or-disability-here? Do you want a community that accepts horrible-diseases-and-or-disabilities? Then come to Stoneybrook! Where freaks fit in!"
Chapter Five
Jessi goes to visit the Kids Club for the first time. Nicky Pike gets to throw a shoe, justifying everyone's belief that Nicky is the most "special" of the Pikes. Anyway, there are cameos from just about every BSC kid around Becca’s age, so Jessi knows a lot of the kids there. It's also a refresher course for the readers-kind of like trivia.
"I'll take Side Characters In The Baby-Sitter's Club for 400, Alex."
Okay, when you know a lot of your little sister’s friends/the kids you baby-sit for, you seriously need to hang out with people your age. And I don’t mean the Cult. Jessi has no life. It's practically par for the course for a big sister to get their little sister's friends confused. Anyway, Mr. Katz (the sponsor) reads letters from sick kids in the hospital who got the toys from the toy drive. One of them is from the Mini-Sue herself, Cancer Kid. D’aww. Anywho, the brilliant idea is to have the kids write letters to the kids in the hospital. The kids take it one step further and want to give the kids in the hospital pictures of themselves. Because everyone loves getting pictures of random strangers!
The best part of the chapter? Undoubtably when one kid (Bruce, I think) asks "I wonder if you can get well from cystic fibrosis." Oh kid. This will lead to soooo many awkward conversations later.
Will we ever meet Cancer Kid? Will the volunteering subplot be as awful as the baby-sitting subplot? Can you get well from cystic fibrosis? All will be revealed later!
So, let's dig in to this Very Special Episode, Jessi's Wish
Now, onto the cover, which was lovingly yanked off of google after the google police warned me that dibbly-fresh 'may contain malicious content'.
I just have one thing to say. Jessi? Burn that shirt. Now. I’m not sure whether it’s red with orange checkers or if it’s red with pink checkers. Anyway, burn that shirt, please. Becca and Cancer Kid look okay-that’s one messed up kitty though.
Chapter One
Jessi blah Squirt blah Becca blah family blah exposition blah. Thankfully, we start this chapter off at Jessi's house and NOT Mme Noelle's Dance Class from Hell.
Anyway, Becca is sad. Jessi is nosy and bugs her for reasons. This ‘Kids Club’ after school might end because the sponsor didn’t want to deal with the brats anymore...my mistake, he’s leaving. Also, turns out there’s a kid that Becca knows who has cancer-Danielle, who shall not appear in any more books after this one. Ouch. As I’ll forget her name after the third chapter/won’t care, I’m taking a page out of Nick Naylor’s book.
Click to viewSucks for you, Cancer Kid. Anyway, back to Kids Club. Becca is crying her eyes out because oh noes, the after school activity might go away. Becca? It’s not like you won’t see these kids during school hours. However, Jessi is a true member of the cult and has an idea forming in her head about how she can get the Kids Club back on its feet. Wait, huh? Whatever happened to Cancer Kid? She just got a name drop. It was like WAAAAAH KIDS CLUB and oh yeah cancer kid WAAAAH KIDS CLUB.
So, Jessi is perturbed. If there’s something strange dealing with a kid: who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters! THE BSC! She does.
Chapter Two
Traditional BSC introduction! Let's see, highlights...Mal thinks it's unfair that her parents won't let her get a nose job. Sweetie? YOU'RE TWELVE. Wait until you grow boobs and go to college before you decide to fuck up your face. Kristy is a bitch, Mary Anne is a sap, Dawn's a hippie, Stacy is sophisticated and Claudia is "exotic". Exotic. If this wasn't coming from the black kid with no personality, I'd call unfortunate implications.
Chapter Three
Blah blah history blah Kid-Kits blah officers blah club blah NEXT!
That done with? Good. Time for the meeting. Wait, we only have three pages left? SHIT, TIME TO CRAM! Jessi brings up that the Kids Club might not exist anymore. Oh noes! Whatever shall we do? She then brings up the idea that she could run it. Good job mindslave. K. Ron taught you well. Naturally, everybody thinks that the idea is so totally awesome and wants to help/volunteer on their own, Kristy being the one who's the most gung-ho about it. I'm gonna let David Tennant express my feelings.
Chapter Four
Jessi goes to meet the sponsor. Naturally, he thinks that she’s up to something when she says she wants to help. She’s an eleven year old, shouldn’t she be like...I don’t know, worried about middle school stuff? Oh yeah, and she’s black. Seeing as there are OMG NO BLACK PEOPLE IN STONYBROOK that’s cause for concern. Anyway, he lets her help. Like he wouldn’t. Anyway, yay! Bonus life! So, Jessi goes back to the club and turns out everybody’s helping out with a different thing. Kristy is working at a day care, Dawn is working at a center for kids with physical disabilities, Claudia and Stacy both get to work at places with their one characteristic comes into play-come on, guess where they work! Guess! Stacy is volunteering at a diabetes center and Claudia is teaching ‘Art For Brats’ at the community center. Mary Anne is working with this kid with brain damage and Mallory is working at a recreation program.
Wait a moment. This means we don't have a babysitting subplot!
Wait a moment. This means that we have a volunteering subplot.
What I want to know is how did they all get jobs so fast? Didn’t one of them have to fill out paperwork or something like that? I know that when I volunteered at my church’s Vacation Bible School, I had to fill out contact information and things of the like. When my mother volunteered at my school as a chaperone, they had to freaking fingerprint her. At least with Kristy and Dawn they should have to fill out paperwork saying something like ‘I won’t hurt the kids’ or something like that. Probably a background check will be required also. And why does Stoneybrook have all this nifty stuff for kids? Seriously. A center for kids with physical disabilities AND a diabetes center? Does Stoneybrook just attract people with disabilities or something? Do they make the tourism industry say stuff about it?
"Having trouble with your insert-horrible-disease-and-or-disability-here? Do you wish that you had someone who could understand your insert-horrible-disease-and-or-disability-here? Do you want a community that accepts horrible-diseases-and-or-disabilities? Then come to Stoneybrook! Where freaks fit in!"
Chapter Five
Jessi goes to visit the Kids Club for the first time. Nicky Pike gets to throw a shoe, justifying everyone's belief that Nicky is the most "special" of the Pikes. Anyway, there are cameos from just about every BSC kid around Becca’s age, so Jessi knows a lot of the kids there. It's also a refresher course for the readers-kind of like trivia.
"I'll take Side Characters In The Baby-Sitter's Club for 400, Alex."
Okay, when you know a lot of your little sister’s friends/the kids you baby-sit for, you seriously need to hang out with people your age. And I don’t mean the Cult. Jessi has no life. It's practically par for the course for a big sister to get their little sister's friends confused. Anyway, Mr. Katz (the sponsor) reads letters from sick kids in the hospital who got the toys from the toy drive. One of them is from the Mini-Sue herself, Cancer Kid. D’aww. Anywho, the brilliant idea is to have the kids write letters to the kids in the hospital. The kids take it one step further and want to give the kids in the hospital pictures of themselves. Because everyone loves getting pictures of random strangers!
The best part of the chapter? Undoubtably when one kid (Bruce, I think) asks "I wonder if you can get well from cystic fibrosis." Oh kid. This will lead to soooo many awkward conversations later.
Will we ever meet Cancer Kid? Will the volunteering subplot be as awful as the baby-sitting subplot? Can you get well from cystic fibrosis? All will be revealed later!