The Secret Life of Mary Anne Spier [With Silver Friendship Rings]

by Ann M. Martin

Book Overview

During a Christmas shopping spree, Mary Anne racks up a large debt on her dad's credit card. Baby-sitters Club. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590059920
• ISBN13: 9780590059923
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Apple
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Cool!

Mary Anne keeps on using his father's credit card. Until Mary anne has to pay all the things she bought.

WOW! Ann. M. Martin, you are improving!

Mary Anne has a skeleton in her closet. It means that she keeps a secret life that nobody wants to know. One day, she worked in a mall. Then, this girl Angela appears. The spiers Are so kind because they let Angela spend Christmas in their house. I am so happy about this book =)

Excellent!

In the secret life of Mary Anne Spier sh spends so much on her father's credit card. Mr.Spier told Mary Anne that she would even have to pay interest just like he does.Mary Anne takes a job at the mall and meets this girl Angela and their family helped Angela by inviting them to stay for Christmas.

Cute holidays tale of GIVING

I liked it! Mary Anne's kind, tender heart gets her into trouble, but I admire how she takes responsibility for her mistake and willingly takes the elf job to pay for it! Also touching is how Mary Anne feels so sorry for Angela, the homeless girl, that she cries quietly under her elf head. Her tender heart is endearing; and her strong sense of responsibility is to be commended. It's hilarious how she goes to extremes to hide her secret job from her friends and boyfriend because she's so easily embarrassed!

The spirit of giving can be a really bad thing

Mary Anne gets to use her father's credit card to do her Christmas shopping! But she goes overboard buying her family and friends. And when her father tells her she has to pay interest to the credit card bill she gets a little worried so she adds the prices of the gift and it turns out she spent 3 TIMES the money she saves. So she has to earn a ton of money in only 2 WEEKS. She baby-sits and then she does something a tiny bit extreme.