Boy-Crazy Stacey (Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #7)
Published September 3rd 2019 by Graphix, Paperback 165 pages
Stacey and Mary Anne are baby-sitting for the Pike family for two weeks at the New Jersey shore. Things are great in Sea City: There's a gorgeous house right on the beach, a boardwalk, plenty of sun and sand... and the cutest boy Stacey has ever seen!
Mary Anne thinks that Stacey should leave Scott alone and focus on the Pike kids, but Stacey's in love. Looking for reasons to hang around his lifeguard stand takes up all of her time, which means Mary Anne has to do the job of two baby-sitters. Mary Anne doesn't like it one bit! How can she tell Stacey that Scott just isn't interested without ruining their friendship and breaking Stacey's heart?
User Reviews
Rating: really liked it
Many thanks to Scholastic for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review[9/10/2019] - Wow, for once an ad that's actually relevant to me.
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Cute, charming and classic. I loved this installment in the graphic novel series!
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Rating: really liked it
Ok if these are modern why does Stacey not have an insulin pump
Rating: really liked it
Stacey and the rest of the baby-sitters club is on summer vacation and they are all doing different things. The Pikes have hired Stacey and Mary Anne to watch their eight kids on their summer vacation to Sea city in new Jersey. It is a paid holiday for them and of course they agree.
When they get to the Sea city, Stacey gets a crush on one of the lifeguards, Scott at the beach and spends time talking to him and not watching the kids whilst Mary Anne has to do make do with things all by herself. When Mary Anne acknowledges that, Stacey just shrugs it off and continues doing the same thing until she Scott kissing another girl and then she gets mad at Mary Anne for no reason. Anyway, Stacey finally gets perspective and apologizes to Mary Anne and even meets another guy, Toby and she has her first kiss. Mary Anne also meets a guy, Alex who introduced Stacey and Toby.
This was another cute story with gorgeous illustrations. Now all I wanna do is go for a vacation at the fictional town of Sea city in New Jersey.
4 stars
Rating: really liked it
A so-so story about friendship and summer crushes during a working vacation to the Jersey Shore for two of the babysitters. Mostly, the postcards that served as chapter breaks knocked me out of the story as I thought about how a true adaptation of this story to the modern day would include cell phones and that would radically change large parts of the story as Stacey completely ignored Mary Anne in favor of constantly texting Claudia for advice and affirmation. What happened here was fine, but not interesting enough to keep my mind from wandering. It'll probably go over better with its intended audience.
Rating: really liked it
this is my all-time favorite BSC book so I'm pretty hard to please with any adaptation of it. I know we have to keep this series updated so kids today will read and relate to it, but I was still looking for toby's sunglasses ("black bands with narrow slits from side to side to see through") and the outfit of stacey's that mary anne borrows for their date ("yellow pedal pushers, a yellow and white striped tank top, and an oversized white jacket") not to mention the cow sign, the chapter where karen and andrew brewer use steel wool to clean watson's car, and the fact that claire's minigolf score is over 200. you can't fit everything into one middle grade graphic novel, though, and this one is pretty good. I particularly liked that most of the characters introduced in this book, all of whom assumed a white default in the original book, are depicted with a diverse range of skin tones. also, scott is not a total asshole 18-year-old who asks 13-year-old girls to make him sandwiches; he's actually a decent guy, and he's 15, so his flirting with stacey is less creepy.
Rating: really liked it
I picked this up on a whim and I was pleasantly surprised. The personalities of the main characters are very distinct, and interestingly there is a feature between chapters where the characters write postcards to each other, which shows that they present themselves differently depending on who they are writing to. That kind of psychological depth makes this worth reading. Additionally the art is really well done--particularly the splash pages.
Rating: really liked it
I want Raina Telgemeier back...
Rating: really liked it
This was a good quick read book! It was light and fluffy, but what bugged me was when Stacey would totally ignore the kids she was babysitting and go talk to the cute lifeguard. Then Mary Anne was left alone to babysit 8 kids! Overall I’d say this book is a good book for middle schoolers.
Rating: really liked it
Fantastic, fun, WE'RE 13, WE'RE TEENAGERS NOW drama. I enjoyed the pants off it.
I actually read Boy-Crazy Stacey, BSC #8, because I've been listening to the Babysitters Club Club podcast and that book was perfectly fine, but this graphic novel winnows the chaff from Boy Crazy Stacey into a more focused, and more realistic, drama about beaches, boys and babysitting.
If I remember correctly, in the original novel, Stacey actually goes on dates with Scott the dreamy lifeguard who's probably, like, sixteen or older, and Mary Ann is trying to go on dates with Alex, but the babysitters each only have one night night off a week from the Pike kids and Stacey is a jerk about it. In that timeline, Mary Ann and Logan were already an item, and she and Alex conclude that they each have honeys back home and it's okay to be boy and girl friends, which is absolutely true, but most thirteen year-olds don't have steady boyfriends. I think this conceit hearkens back to the time when a date was effectively hanging out with an opposite gender friend with the possibility of romance but not the obligation, which is how that worked when Ann M. Martin was a teen but not how it worked by 1988, and especially not now.
In this graphic novel, Stacey blows off Mary Ann all day to hang around the lifeguard stand with Scott and his cool teenage buddies, and Mary Ann is stuck looking after all eight Pike kids on the beach. Mary Ann takes the high road and she and Stacey have a fun night out on the boardwalk that Stacey ruins by spending the whole time trying to find Scott a present, and then they see Scott kissing a girl who is older than thirteen!!! Stacey is devastated; Mary Ann befriends a cute boy babysitter named Alex and they chum around and have fun with their charges, which is shown less explicitly because it's harder to draw fun than pathos. Stacey transfers her affections to Alex's cousin Toby, who is cool but not the literal coolest boy on the beach, and they do a kiss and promise to write. Good luck with that. But maybe they'll see each other at Sea City in the sequel.
Great art, postcards, lots of Pike kids, mini-golf, splashing, etc. Just a good all-around fun book. I read it in about fifty minutes, although one could spend more time admiring the artwork, if one needed to stretch out the reading experience.
Rating: really liked it
I read this late at night in sub-optimal lighting, so I don't think I allowed myself to be 100% immersed in this fantastic book. Not that that deterred me from loving this. The art is amazing as always, I love how the postcards were done. I felt like Stacey's crush on Scott could have been expanded on more - for instance, we never got to see her fetching him a soda - but the looks on Mary Anne's face more than made up for that. This was a delight, and I'm so happy that the graphic novel fans got their introduction to the magic that is Sea City.
And now, a personal anecdote: the exchange I had with the woman at the bookstore checkout:
Her: "Oh, hot off the presses!"
Me: "Yeah, I almost forgot it came out today."
Her: "Well you're going to have a happy camper at home!"
Me: "Uh, yeah. Me. It's for me. I'm the happy camper."
Her: [pause] "Well good for you!"
Rating: really liked it
Here's number 7 in the Baby-sitters Club graphic novel series. The volume was beautifully designed and illustrated but I am so tired of the old "girl falls in love with boy and gives him all the power" theme. Please! Please! Please! can we let young girls know that they don't have to give away themselves in order to be "liked".
Rating: really liked it
A cute, fun summer read. I love these books but miss Reina's art. She drew the first four books in this series, and while Gale Galligan's art style is very nice and expressive, I'm still having trouble getting used to the shift in the style. There is something about Reina's designs that I prefer.
Rating: really liked it
I am amazed by how well I remember little details from the original chapter book, which I read TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO.
Rating: really liked it
Loved this so much - Gale's style perfectly captures that summertime nostalgic crush energy
Rating: really liked it
Meh, Stacey was never one of my favorites, and she didn't get any better with time. Love me some Mary Anne, though.
