Books like Starring the Baby-sitters Club!

this is my first time reading this book!in this superspecial whose dedication says, "For Brian Selznick, a rising star," (FOR REAL!) jessi decides to write an article for the school newspaper giving a glimpse behind-the-scenes of the school play, peter pan. all of the bsc members (and some of their friends and charges -- since some kids from the high school and elementary school are in it) are involved in the play. see individual plotlines for more.individual plotlines:-jessi: wants to be peter pan (and assumes she will get cast because she's such a good dancer). once she gets a pirate role instead, she refuses to be in the play because she's a terrible baby. she becomes the choreographer for little kids and then is resentful when she doesn't feel appreciated enough. eventually, pete black gets hurt on the night of the play, so jessi takes over his roles of nana the dog and the crocodile, and she ends up thankful to be in the play (but she doesn't apologize profusely to everyone involved, so I am still mad at her at the end).-kristy: wants to be nana the dog and the crocodile, but she gets the peter pan role. she is terrible at remembering her lines. right at the end of the book a somewhat interesting plotline is thrown in where kristy and dawn both wish their divorced dads were seeing them act in the play and stacey talks about how thankful she is that her divorced dad is there.-dawn: wants to be tiger lily, but she gets the wendy role. in classic dawn soapbox hilarity, she is offended by some of the dialogue and tries to change it to reflect how she thinks women's roles SHOULD be (telling peter she will teach him how to sew instead of sewing the shadow for him, etc)-stacey: wants to be cast in any small part, but she gets the mrs. darling role. sam thomas is mr. darling and annoys stacey by constantly calling her mrs. darling or mother, even when they're not doing the play. it turns out that he wants to show his friends it's okay that he's dating a middle schooler because they have fun together. stacey tells him to act normally and then he does.-claudia: wants to paint sets, but she becomes the head set designer (which just makes her scared that her sets won't be good enough).-mallory: wants to make costumes and gets to do just that (the ONLY one who gets the exact role she wanted). has to measure BOYS for costumes and is mortified by that. after the costumes are done she is bored so she keeps backseat-babysitting the kids when mary anne is around, and mary anne gets mad. at one point, the costumes are all in the wrong places, and mal is like, "oops, I should have been doing my job." but no, her job was to make the costumes, not to make sure that the cast members put the costumes back in their right places. see lowlights for my thoughts on making everyone involved in the play come to every rehearsal.-mary anne: doesn't want a role at all but becomes jackie rodowsky's personal coach (because he has a big role and is impossible to control) and all the kids' backstage babysitter. she gets mad at mallory. at first I am more annoyed with mary anne but eventually I see what she's saying about mallory.highlights:-stacey's song audition is mack the knife. hahahahahaha-dawn hates peter pan because she thinks he is trying to keep wendy down. when mary anne points out that peter promised wendy an adventure, dawn says "that's just like a man" to bribe a woman with an adventure and then force her to be a maid instead. sometimes I love stupid soapbox dawn so much.-there's a cokie narrator chapter! at one point she talks about a girl who wants to hang out with her and grace, and how they will maybe let her once her complexion clears up. I love this mean girl juxtaposition against the irritatingly good-natured baby-sitters (except jessi who is obviously a dumb brat in this book).-at one point cokie asks for a private dressing room. kristy suggests a mop closet as a joke, but cokie actually ends up getting it to be her dressing room. nice try, kristy!-stacey makes a reference to dating sam being like dating jerry lewis. does she know who that is? this isn't an i love lucy reference, but it may as well be.-claudia narration: "carob is just not necessary. if you want to enjoy the flavor of chocolate, then each chocolate." YES! thank you, claud! carob tastes fine, but it does NOT taste like chocolate. if you want chocolate, eat chocolate. if you want carob, eat carob.-cokie tries to psych kristy out by saying she's going to forget her lines. to get back at her, during cokie's solo kristy continues to sing. BOOM.lowlights/nitpicks:-jessi assumes she will be cast as peter pan. what a jerk. she is such a stupid baby after she doesn't get picked. she also backseat drives their auditions (telling everyone what they did wrong). she is almost as terrible as dawn in Dawn Saves the Planet. her singing and acting are not that good anyway, so why would she be cast? she wasn't even gonna go to the play to support her friends but got asked to help out last minute. UGH.-karen throws a tantrum about not getting to be tinkerbell (since tink is usually not an actual actor in the play, and is instead just twinkling lights and sounds). after the tantrum they let her be tinkerbell. UGH. STOP REWARDING KAREN'S TERRIBLE BEHAVIOR, EVERYONE.-the pike triplets try to do a raindance and think it's not realistic enough so adam "turns on" the sprinklers. TURNS ON the sprinklers? those only go off if you hold a flame up to them -- did he start a fire?-why do the costume designer and choreographer have to keep coming to rehearsals? why does every single person go to every single rehearsal? that's NOT HOW PLAYS WORK. there should be rehearsals that are just wendy and peter, or just the darlings, etc. why do the people who are already done making the costumes and done making the sets still come to every rehearsal?no outfits.kristy lunchroom comment:-"what is this goo?" (it's something gray and stringy). "it looks like what watson's cat might bring in--"snack in claudia's room:-almond joy in her pillowcase