BSC Friends Forever #11: Welcome Home, Mary Anne

by Ann M. Martin

Book Overview

Baby sitters club book for young teens This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590523465
• ISBN13: 9780590523462
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

a good book

Dawn is visiting Stoneybrook and is bringing Sunny Winslow, her best friend in California whose mather just passed away. Dawn and Mary Anne must make Sunny feel happy.

Friends BSC Forever:Welcome Home,Mary Anne(#11)

Love it!Mary Anne house just got build.And Sunny, came to Stoneybrook to visit.This is a good buy and a very good book.Lots of Love, Fulliem Quach xoxoxoxoxoxo

Mary Anne's still the same loveable person!

I liked how Ann brought Sunny & Mary Anne together! And yes, Mary Anne is getting new plots (NOT a new boyfriend, which is good). Her heart has just about healed from Logan;I'm glad Ann didn't latch her onto another boyfriend like so many other series would have done. I liked that she joined the yearbook in a previous book & she's doing more things. It's so heartwarming that her house has been re-built & she & her family move back in. I loved the descriptions; I felt as if I were right there with Mary Anne & my heart just warmed for her. She's been through so much pain & suffering in her life & it's good that she's happier now & at peace. She deserves peace & happiness; she's such a good, courageous person! I liked how she sensed that Sunny was still hurting from losing her mom, even though Sunny was hiding her pain under a facade of cheerfulness & she comforted Sunny, even when Dawn got mad at Sunny. It was funny how when the girls snuck off to New York City, Mary Anne felt so guilty. I was sooo sure that she was going to break down & fess up! I'm surprised that she didn't. The ending was gave such a sense of peace & closure & I'm glad that Mary Anne's feeling peaceful these days.

Great! Buy it now!

I TOTALLY recommend this book for people that like Sunny, Dawn, and the rest of the BSC friends Forever series. in thsi book, Mary Anne has finally moved in to her new house, and Dawn is coming to Stoneybrook with Sunny, the best friend of Dawn's that's mother died from Lung cancer. Again, read this book. It's touching, and finally, u get a picture of Dawn and Sunny! (LoL!)

A moving conclusion ....

After several months of sorrow, pain, and fear, Mary Anne finally grounds herself. She discovers where she belongs, and she feels a sense of peacefulness again. After loosing her home, (and everything she owns) in a fire, Mary Anne feels lost. I'm glad that she has regained some self-assurance. I disagree with the reviews below me on how Mary Anne should have "moved on." You never get over something like that entirely. It was very realistic to create three books in this series on her situation. (Four if you count the BSC series) If Ann wrapped up this plot to quickly, her character wouldn't have gone through the grieving process of loosing her home realistically.In #131 of the BSC series, you saw Mary Anne shocked because she's lost her home, but she's numb. She doesn't really feel that pain until the end of the story. In #3 and #8 in the Friends Forever series, she's trying to get over that shock.#11 concludes the fire. It's put out in her mind, at least for now. She finally feels as if she's gone home. I look forward to reading more about Mary Anne Spier. Meanwhile, I also enjoyed how Sunny Winslow was tied into this book from the California Diaries series. It was like Ann tied in two main plot lines from two different series and put them both into one story. I too lost my mom to cancer (in fact she died a month before the book where Sunny's mom passes is puplished), so I can relate. Good job Ann Martin for a touching ending to this plot and for Sunny's story to be brought in as well. I look forward to reading more about both of your strong characters.