Stacey's Ex-Best Friend

by Ann M. Martin

Book Overview

Stacey can't wait! Her best friend from New York, Laine Cummings, is coming to Stoneybrook for a whole week. Lain can spend a day at SMS, attend club meetings, and maybe even go to the Valentine... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590449680
• ISBN13: 9780590449687
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

great book

this is one of my favourite stacey books. As always, it was well written and you can picture everything like it's a movie. I could actually relate to this book very well a few years after I read it, because my best friend/cousin of the same age when I was in the first few years of my teenage life was becoming really snobby and superficial and bashing everything about me too, though she would act nice, but fake-nice sometimes. Laine seemed really mean in the Baby Sitters Remember book, but she seemed like a good friend to Stacey in Stacey's Book, and some of the BSC books before this one, she's like the total opposite in this book. She disses stacey's baby sitting business, friends, school, town, everything and keeps talking about her boyfriend and giving stacey stupid advice like going on a diet when she's already skinny and not being considerate of her diabetes. I'm glad stacey found the courage to tell her off at the end, at least she was not blind like laine about how dumb she was being. It's very normal for best friends to grow apart when growing up, and Stacey sent her a letter at the end saying goodbye to her, which was a good move too. True some may argue that Stacey changed and at one point was acting like Laine and grew out of the BSC, but she was not snobby the way Laine is, not even close. I can also relate to her because my parents split up as well, and though I'm in my early 20's I seem to be caught in the middle too sometimes. Great read.

Laine, the Snooty ...!

I read that book recently and it was a good book. I agree with the second review. Laine was never a good friend to Stacey. If you read BSC Remember and Stacey's Book, you could read about Stacey's memories about Laine. Laine was a snob since she was in kindergarten. She was so mean to Stacey when she got diabetes and treated her as if she was poison. In this book, Laine visits Stacey in Stoneybrook for the first time and she seems to hate the trip. She seems bored, makes snooty comments about Stacey's town,boyfriend, school, clothes, friends, the BSC, and the Valentine's Dance. She even had the nerve to make mean comments about Pete Black who asks her to the dance. Stacey seems fed up of Laine's snob behavior and wants to save the friendship. But the final straw was at the Valentine's Dance where she whined about everything (her crushed corsage,date, music, decorations, food, and the annoying 6th graders). Then a slow song came on and Laine's finally satisfied. Pete asks her to dance and she says no, she's tired. Then a hot guy asks Laine to dance and she gladly accepts. She's all over the guy on the dance floor and Pete is upset and so is Stacey. Finally Stacey tells of Laine and they leave the dance early. They keep on fighting and Laine wants to go back to NYC. She takes the night train home and Stacey is glad and sad. I'm glad she had Claudia and the club to support her. Losing a best friend is tough and it can happen to anyone.

Great!

It's great, even though it wasn't a perfect ending, it still shows how wise and brave Stacey is. Claudia's acually a really smart girl. What happens between Stacey and Laine can really happen in real life.

Great!

It's great, even though it wasn't a perfect ending, it still shows how wise and brave Stacey is. Claudia's acually a really smart girl. What happens between Stacey and Laine can really happen in real life.

I really liked this book

I absolutely loved this book. It was my favorite out of all that I have read. It was funny too.