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The Baby-Sitters Club #25
The Babysitters Club, Mary Anne and hte Search for Tigger # 25
When her kitten goes missing, Mary Anne is frantic. Then she gets a threatening letter in the post -- Tigger has been cat-napped and Mary Anne must pay a ransom to get him back. Where is Tigger? And can the Babysitters find him - before it's too late?
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First published June 1, 1989
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Ann M. Martin
1,114 books3,062 followersAnn Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She's now a full-time writer.
Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.
Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.
Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.
After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.
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Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.
Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.
Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.
After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.
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August 16, 2010
ugh. mary anne spier at her worst.
so, mary anne's dad used to be kind of over-protective because he's a single parent & was trying too hard to be both mom & dad to her. in book #4, they had a talk after mary anne saved jenny prezzioso from a high fever, & mr. spier has loosened up a bit. he even let mary anne adopt tigger, the perpetual wonder kitten. this book opens with dawn & mary anne biking downtown to pick up some more cat toys for tigger. apparently he bats them behind the fridge & mary anne has to constantly buy more, instead of moving the fridge aside & sweeping them out. you're supposed to brush all the dust out of the coils behind your fridge anyway once a year, it's not like they can't be moved. anyway.
a couple of days later, mary anne is hanging out in her yard with logan after school. logan isn't allowed inside when mr. spier isn't home, lest mary anne & logan...have sex? i don't know. it's kind of weird. mary anne has let tigger outside to play too, & is visited by jamie newton & charlotte johannssen, both of whom want to play with tigger. mary anne starts to tell logan that she thinks maybe she over-protects tigger in the same way that her dad used to over-protect her & he snaps, "again?" it was kind of mean of him (mary anne agrees), but it also cracked me up to think that this is a regular topic of conversation for mary anne. i just imagine her tying ribbons on to tigger's tail & asking logan, "do you think this is too much like how my dad used to make me wear braids?" or trying to force tigger to sleep in a navy blue-&-yellow cat bed, & asking logan, "is it wrong of me to impose my aesthetic decorating preferences on to tigger? perhaps he prefers pink." mary anne lets it go, & when it's time for her BSC meeting, she decides to leave tigger outside. he seems reluctant to go in.
when she comes home from the meeting, she can't find tigger anywhere. her dad helps her look when he gets home from work (continuity fail: this book supposedly takes place right after mother's day, so late may or early june, but it's dark enough to require flashlights at 7pm when richard gets home from work), but they can't find him. mary anne sleeps fitfully, worrying about tigger. tigger is still missing when she gets up in the morning.
she tells the other BSC members what's going on, & kristy proposes that they make a missing poster & plaster the neighborhood. all of the babysitters contribute what little money they have so they can offer a reward. an entire chapter is dedicated to the pursuit of crafting the perfect missing cat poster. i wish it would have gone something like this, but sadly, it does not. mary anne even letters the poster herself to avoid the perils of claudia's shaky grasp on basic spelling. kristy has her mom run off posters at her office, & the babysitters reconvene in the morning to poster the neighborhood (logan included).
at some point in here, maybe when mary anne is telling everyone how tigger is missing at a babysitters club meeting, she starts crying & brazenly admits that she looked at logan, waiting for him to comfort her. way to emotionally manipulate him, mary anne. logan fails to take the bait & claudia hugs mary anne instead. (mary anne imagines that claudia gives logan a dirty look while she does it.) when she cries again later, she again expects logan to comfort her. instead he tells her to pull herself together because she's being "too sensitive" & "acting like a girl." mary anne replies that there's nothing wrong with being sensitive, & anyway, she IS a girl. i wish she had also said that hello! there's nothing wrong with being a girl. shut the fuck up, logan. though i do wish mary anne would get a grip. at one point, she actually tells logan, "i think this is the worst thing that's ever happened to me." really? worse than your mom dying of cancer when you were a tiny infant? that cat must shit gold.
while they're out putting up posters, a ten-year-old boy approaches mary anne & says that he thinks he saw a cat fitting tigger's description the day before. he basically reads the description right off the poster & arouses mary anne's suspicion when he says he called the cat "tigger" & it responded. he then baldly asks if the $30 reward is for information leading to tigger's return. mary anne blows him off.
meanwhile, mary anne has been babysitting a bit for kerry & hunter, logan's siblings. hunter has really, really bad allergies. as someone who had my first round of terrible seasonal allergies this spring, i don't know how hunter resists the impulse to just kill himself. i can't even imagine being that allergic to EVERYTHING. mary anne notices that hunter's allergies seem to be a little worse when he's upstairs, & that kerry is being uncommonly helpful. hmmm...i wonder how this will tie in with the A story?
a few days after putting up posters, mary anne receives a ransom note in her mailbox. it's not clear to me how the catnapper knew which house was mary anne's but...let's go with it. the note says that mary anne needs to leave $100 on the big rock in brenner field if she ever wants to see her cat alive again. logan springs into action & concocts a plan where mary anne will stuff an envelope with fake money & leave it on the rock. the other babysitters will hide in the field, ready to accost the catnapper when s/he comes to pick up the money. mary anne will go home after leaving the envelope, & then backtrack to the field to hide & wait.
the whole thing goes off without a hitch (despite a lengthy passage in which mary anne frets over how thick to make the envelope, & why she should use monopoly money instead of newspaper or notebook paper--who gives a fuck, mary anne?). the "catnapper" was the same greedy ten-year-old who tried to pass fake info on tigger while they were postering the neighborhood. he doesn't really have tigger, he just wanted money. mary anne yells at him & basically tells him he's an idiot. logan scares the kid by threatening a citizen's arrest. it's all just a big weird red herring, providing fodder for the BSC notebook when dawn sits for the barretts & they are concerned that their ugly little basset hound is going to be houndnapped. don't hold your breath, kids.
while mary anne is sitting for just hunter, she notices that his allergies are really, really bad. when she asks him about it, he shows her why. kerry has tigger hidden in a cardboard box in her closet! hunter is allergic to pet dander, so a cat in the house is making his allergies really bad. apparently kerry accidentally catnapped tigger because she thought he was a stray, she's lonely & hasn't made friends in stoneybrook yet, & she hoped her parents would let her get a pet if she proved she could be responsible for one. i question how responsible it is to shut a cat in a cardboard box in a closet for five days, even if you are giving it food & water. what did tigger ever do to land himself in the hole, aside from annoy me with his fictitious friskiness?
mary anne takes tigger back, but convinces herself that logan's recent distance & short temper have been because he knew that kerry had tigger & was trying to protect her. this makes no sense, because logan is old enough to realize that the cat secret would have had to come out eventually, & then how could he have ever had mary anne or any of mary anne's friends that know tigger over without them asking why the hell tigger is at his house? this is just another pointless conflict to stretch out the story. eventually logan confesses that he's bummed because he's about to get kicked off the baseball team, & he really had no idea that kerry was hiding tigger in some kind of weird cat closet dungeon. mary anne & logan make up. kerry is punished with having to wash the family cars, & then she's allowed to get a hairless pet & is introduced to charlotte johannssen. & BSC readers are forever tormented by mary anne's continued obsession with her completely mediocre cat.
so, mary anne's dad used to be kind of over-protective because he's a single parent & was trying too hard to be both mom & dad to her. in book #4, they had a talk after mary anne saved jenny prezzioso from a high fever, & mr. spier has loosened up a bit. he even let mary anne adopt tigger, the perpetual wonder kitten. this book opens with dawn & mary anne biking downtown to pick up some more cat toys for tigger. apparently he bats them behind the fridge & mary anne has to constantly buy more, instead of moving the fridge aside & sweeping them out. you're supposed to brush all the dust out of the coils behind your fridge anyway once a year, it's not like they can't be moved. anyway.
a couple of days later, mary anne is hanging out in her yard with logan after school. logan isn't allowed inside when mr. spier isn't home, lest mary anne & logan...have sex? i don't know. it's kind of weird. mary anne has let tigger outside to play too, & is visited by jamie newton & charlotte johannssen, both of whom want to play with tigger. mary anne starts to tell logan that she thinks maybe she over-protects tigger in the same way that her dad used to over-protect her & he snaps, "again?" it was kind of mean of him (mary anne agrees), but it also cracked me up to think that this is a regular topic of conversation for mary anne. i just imagine her tying ribbons on to tigger's tail & asking logan, "do you think this is too much like how my dad used to make me wear braids?" or trying to force tigger to sleep in a navy blue-&-yellow cat bed, & asking logan, "is it wrong of me to impose my aesthetic decorating preferences on to tigger? perhaps he prefers pink." mary anne lets it go, & when it's time for her BSC meeting, she decides to leave tigger outside. he seems reluctant to go in.
when she comes home from the meeting, she can't find tigger anywhere. her dad helps her look when he gets home from work (continuity fail: this book supposedly takes place right after mother's day, so late may or early june, but it's dark enough to require flashlights at 7pm when richard gets home from work), but they can't find him. mary anne sleeps fitfully, worrying about tigger. tigger is still missing when she gets up in the morning.
she tells the other BSC members what's going on, & kristy proposes that they make a missing poster & plaster the neighborhood. all of the babysitters contribute what little money they have so they can offer a reward. an entire chapter is dedicated to the pursuit of crafting the perfect missing cat poster. i wish it would have gone something like this, but sadly, it does not. mary anne even letters the poster herself to avoid the perils of claudia's shaky grasp on basic spelling. kristy has her mom run off posters at her office, & the babysitters reconvene in the morning to poster the neighborhood (logan included).
at some point in here, maybe when mary anne is telling everyone how tigger is missing at a babysitters club meeting, she starts crying & brazenly admits that she looked at logan, waiting for him to comfort her. way to emotionally manipulate him, mary anne. logan fails to take the bait & claudia hugs mary anne instead. (mary anne imagines that claudia gives logan a dirty look while she does it.) when she cries again later, she again expects logan to comfort her. instead he tells her to pull herself together because she's being "too sensitive" & "acting like a girl." mary anne replies that there's nothing wrong with being sensitive, & anyway, she IS a girl. i wish she had also said that hello! there's nothing wrong with being a girl. shut the fuck up, logan. though i do wish mary anne would get a grip. at one point, she actually tells logan, "i think this is the worst thing that's ever happened to me." really? worse than your mom dying of cancer when you were a tiny infant? that cat must shit gold.
while they're out putting up posters, a ten-year-old boy approaches mary anne & says that he thinks he saw a cat fitting tigger's description the day before. he basically reads the description right off the poster & arouses mary anne's suspicion when he says he called the cat "tigger" & it responded. he then baldly asks if the $30 reward is for information leading to tigger's return. mary anne blows him off.
meanwhile, mary anne has been babysitting a bit for kerry & hunter, logan's siblings. hunter has really, really bad allergies. as someone who had my first round of terrible seasonal allergies this spring, i don't know how hunter resists the impulse to just kill himself. i can't even imagine being that allergic to EVERYTHING. mary anne notices that hunter's allergies seem to be a little worse when he's upstairs, & that kerry is being uncommonly helpful. hmmm...i wonder how this will tie in with the A story?
a few days after putting up posters, mary anne receives a ransom note in her mailbox. it's not clear to me how the catnapper knew which house was mary anne's but...let's go with it. the note says that mary anne needs to leave $100 on the big rock in brenner field if she ever wants to see her cat alive again. logan springs into action & concocts a plan where mary anne will stuff an envelope with fake money & leave it on the rock. the other babysitters will hide in the field, ready to accost the catnapper when s/he comes to pick up the money. mary anne will go home after leaving the envelope, & then backtrack to the field to hide & wait.
the whole thing goes off without a hitch (despite a lengthy passage in which mary anne frets over how thick to make the envelope, & why she should use monopoly money instead of newspaper or notebook paper--who gives a fuck, mary anne?). the "catnapper" was the same greedy ten-year-old who tried to pass fake info on tigger while they were postering the neighborhood. he doesn't really have tigger, he just wanted money. mary anne yells at him & basically tells him he's an idiot. logan scares the kid by threatening a citizen's arrest. it's all just a big weird red herring, providing fodder for the BSC notebook when dawn sits for the barretts & they are concerned that their ugly little basset hound is going to be houndnapped. don't hold your breath, kids.
while mary anne is sitting for just hunter, she notices that his allergies are really, really bad. when she asks him about it, he shows her why. kerry has tigger hidden in a cardboard box in her closet! hunter is allergic to pet dander, so a cat in the house is making his allergies really bad. apparently kerry accidentally catnapped tigger because she thought he was a stray, she's lonely & hasn't made friends in stoneybrook yet, & she hoped her parents would let her get a pet if she proved she could be responsible for one. i question how responsible it is to shut a cat in a cardboard box in a closet for five days, even if you are giving it food & water. what did tigger ever do to land himself in the hole, aside from annoy me with his fictitious friskiness?
mary anne takes tigger back, but convinces herself that logan's recent distance & short temper have been because he knew that kerry had tigger & was trying to protect her. this makes no sense, because logan is old enough to realize that the cat secret would have had to come out eventually, & then how could he have ever had mary anne or any of mary anne's friends that know tigger over without them asking why the hell tigger is at his house? this is just another pointless conflict to stretch out the story. eventually logan confesses that he's bummed because he's about to get kicked off the baseball team, & he really had no idea that kerry was hiding tigger in some kind of weird cat closet dungeon. mary anne & logan make up. kerry is punished with having to wash the family cars, & then she's allowed to get a hairless pet & is introduced to charlotte johannssen. & BSC readers are forever tormented by mary anne's continued obsession with her completely mediocre cat.
July 7, 2020
While I actually started reading around age 3 (thank you, my Granny's Dick and Jane books!), this series is what I remember most about loving to read during my childhood. My sister and I drank these books up like they were oxygen. I truly think we owned just about every single one from every one of the series. We even got the privilege of meeting Ann M. Martin at a book signing, but of course little starstruck me froze and could not speak a word to my biggest hero at that time. Once in awhile if I come across these at a yard sale, I will pick them up for a couple hour trip down memory lane, and I declare nearly nothing centers and relaxes me more!
May 28, 2019
Uh Oh! When Mary Anne comes home from a babysitters club meeting she realizes tigger, her kitten is missing! She can’t find him anywhere. At first she thinks he will just show up on his own but as a full day rolls around she realizes this is serious. The girls get together to make posters and pull enough money together for a reward. Days go by though and still no Tigger. While all this is going on Logan (Mary Anne’s boyfriend) starts acting distant and strange. He never has acted this way towards her so what could possibly be wrong with him? Hopefully tigger can be found and Mary Anne can fix her relationship in the process.
December 1, 2023
Read via audio (narrated by Emily Bauer).
January 23, 2019
Mary Anne Spier - Alisha Newton
Dawn Schafer - Emma Rayne Lyle
Kristy Thomas - Nikki Hahn
Claudia Kishi - Madison Hu
Mallory Pike - Francesca Capaldi
Jessi Ramsey - Skai Jackson
Logan Bruno - Ty Simpkins
Richard Spier - Corey Stoll
Mrs. Barrett - Evangeline Lilly
Mrs. Bruno - Emily Blunt
Mr. Bruno - John Krasinski
Dawn Schafer - Emma Rayne Lyle
Kristy Thomas - Nikki Hahn
Claudia Kishi - Madison Hu
Mallory Pike - Francesca Capaldi
Jessi Ramsey - Skai Jackson
Logan Bruno - Ty Simpkins
Richard Spier - Corey Stoll
Mrs. Barrett - Evangeline Lilly
Mrs. Bruno - Emily Blunt
Mr. Bruno - John Krasinski
April 23, 2013
I was not into the pet-centered books, so I didn't really care that Mary Anne lost her cat. (It also bugged me that he was "a kitten" for like a million years in this series.) But that was the plot, so we went with it.
My sister had a cat that used to play with the same kinds of toys that were described in this story, so the fact that the cat would hit them behind the fridge was really visual to me for some reason. I can still picture the row of cat toy balls lined up behind the fridge which everyone is too lazy to retract.
So the cat is missing, and Logan (Mary Anne's boyfriend) has a brother name Hunter whose allergies are suddenly focused on with ridiculous clarity to the point that you of course know what's going on as soon as they mention it. Also, Logan is inexplicably a jerk in this book, and even though we later find out that he is irritable because he's about to get kicked off his sports team, Mary Anne has some kind of dumb misunderstanding over thinking her boyfriend was trying to hide that his brother had kidnapped her cat. Of course, no. He's being a jerk for another reason. These "people blatantly misunderstand each other to add dramatic tension" plots never made sense to me.
My sister had a cat that used to play with the same kinds of toys that were described in this story, so the fact that the cat would hit them behind the fridge was really visual to me for some reason. I can still picture the row of cat toy balls lined up behind the fridge which everyone is too lazy to retract.
So the cat is missing, and Logan (Mary Anne's boyfriend) has a brother name Hunter whose allergies are suddenly focused on with ridiculous clarity to the point that you of course know what's going on as soon as they mention it. Also, Logan is inexplicably a jerk in this book, and even though we later find out that he is irritable because he's about to get kicked off his sports team, Mary Anne has some kind of dumb misunderstanding over thinking her boyfriend was trying to hide that his brother had kidnapped her cat. Of course, no. He's being a jerk for another reason. These "people blatantly misunderstand each other to add dramatic tension" plots never made sense to me.
July 17, 2023
Mary Anne's beloved kitten Tigger is missing! She lets the cat outside (not smart, girl) and the cat goes missing! So the BSC decides to go on a neighborhood search for Mary Anne's sweet feline. Will she find her poor missing kitten? Or is it right under her nose all along. This was not one of my favorite BSC books and I felt that it fell a little flat, especially by how rude Logan was acting towards Mary Anne. It also brought Logan's very unseen siblings into the center of the story, which was cool, but this is definitely not a BSC must read.
February 7, 2021
Tigger, Mary-Anne's cat, is missing and as she deals with that Logan, her boyfriend, is more aloof than ever.
Well that was a sad book. I love Mary-Anne so much and everything seemed to happen to her at once in this, it was awful. It all ends well but it wasn't the most uplifting BSC book for sure.
Well that was a sad book. I love Mary-Anne so much and everything seemed to happen to her at once in this, it was awful. It all ends well but it wasn't the most uplifting BSC book for sure.
May 17, 2024
Not my favourite BSC story. For most of the book I was annoyed with the main characters, namely Mary Anne and Logan, and I just couldn't believe a single person in the Bruno household didn't have any clue about what Kerry was up to!
I have two other Mary Anne-centric books that I want to read next; guess we'll see how that goes.
I have two other Mary Anne-centric books that I want to read next; guess we'll see how that goes.
December 1, 2021
Actually pretty good on. Mary Anne isn't usually my favorite but this story was good. And it has a few babysitting jobs mixed in, which works well for breaking up the story. Spoiler summary in comments
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May 3, 2023
I only give this book three stars because- like oh my god - a kitten, who is very loved by Mary Anne, goes missing. It definitely tugs on the heart strings AND NOT IN THE AWWW KIND OF WAY. Mary Anne even thinks Tigger has died!!! So, yeah, three stars.
March 6, 2022
I'm trying to whittle down my BSC and Goosebumps collection fairly frequently if I'm not inclined every month. This was next in the rotation and it was a little disappointing. This book featured the disappearance of Mary Anne's cat, Tigger. (The cat is gray not orange, which makes zero sense to be named Tigger) I don't know if this an 80's thing or a small town thing, but she let her kitten play in her front yard for an hour while she attended a BSC meeting. She came back and found her cat gone, unsurprisingly in my opinion. The whole book focuses on Mary Anne upset over her kitten's disappearance and rallying the town to help find him. Her boyfriend Logan has problems of his own being the new kid and struggling on the baseball team. Mary Anne is so caught up with Tigger that she blames Logan for not being more upset over her cat. It was a dumb move but that tracks for preteen girls. It was a pretty frustrating book and it reached its apex when the thief was revealed. It seemed like a total copout. This wasn't my favorite installment in the series and I know the next book will rip my heart out. Claudia's Sad Goodbye is about Mimi's death and I'm not looking forward to it. I'm grateful for this series but it's unfortunate that not every book can be a winner.
February 17, 2016
this is first time I've read this book!
mary anne's perpetual kitten, tigger, disappears. the baby-sitters (and the kids they sit!) all go into overdrive trying to find him. meanwhile logan is being a jerk to mary anne. these plotlines resolve themselves in frustrating ways that don't leave me feeling any better. the end.
highlights:
-mini animal rights activists: mary anne is happy that dawn calls tigger a someone, not a something. cats are people too.
-jamie newton calls tigger "pounsive" -- I'm definitely going to use this in the future.
-a really cute perkins girls chapter, where claudia babysits for them and they know way more old songs than she does. they want to sing elvis and claudia notes that she thought his name was elbow presley.
-when logan the jerk tells mary anne she is too sensitive and that she's acting like a girl, mary anne says there's nothing wrong with being sensitive and that she IS a girl. heck yes!
lowlights:
-logan is an unacceptable level of dick in this book. that plotline gets resolved, at least sort of, but it doesn't make me feel any better. he is bummed that he is getting kicked off the baseball team. okay. that makes sense when you think about how preoccupied he's seemed. but that doesn't explain him telling mary anne she's overreacting when she says tigger's disappearance is the worst thing that's happened to her. that doesn't make it better that he calls her sensitive (meaning it as a bad thing) and says she's being such a girl. logan, screw you.
-mary anne says tigger doesn't wear a collar with tags. and she lets him roam free outside. and he's a kitten. I kind of think his getting catnapped is mary anne's own fault.
-the bruno parents only vaguely punish kerry and then they let her get a pet. she's proven that she's responsible enough to keep a pet, by keeping tigger alive and fed and all, but YOU ARE REWARDING HER AWFUL BEHAVIOR. maybe she can take care of another living being, but that doesn't mean she's responsible enough to not bring a furry animal (that her brother is allergic to) into her house, and it doesn't mean that she's responsible enough to not steal someone else's pet. bruno parents, you are bad parents.
kristy's cafeteria food description:
-'"anyone care for some fish eyes and glue?" she asked, holding out her dish of tapioca pudding.'
one claudia outfit:
-"Like a loose blouse with a fake coat of arms on it worn over a very short black skirt. Around her waist, a scarf. On her feet, short black boots. Dangling from her ears, dinosaurs. And her hair might be piled on top of her head and held in place with hairpins that look like seahorses."
one snack in claudia's room:
-double stuf oreos under her bed
mary anne's perpetual kitten, tigger, disappears. the baby-sitters (and the kids they sit!) all go into overdrive trying to find him. meanwhile logan is being a jerk to mary anne. these plotlines resolve themselves in frustrating ways that don't leave me feeling any better. the end.
highlights:
-mini animal rights activists: mary anne is happy that dawn calls tigger a someone, not a something. cats are people too.
-jamie newton calls tigger "pounsive" -- I'm definitely going to use this in the future.
-a really cute perkins girls chapter, where claudia babysits for them and they know way more old songs than she does. they want to sing elvis and claudia notes that she thought his name was elbow presley.
-when logan the jerk tells mary anne she is too sensitive and that she's acting like a girl, mary anne says there's nothing wrong with being sensitive and that she IS a girl. heck yes!
lowlights:
-logan is an unacceptable level of dick in this book. that plotline gets resolved, at least sort of, but it doesn't make me feel any better. he is bummed that he is getting kicked off the baseball team. okay. that makes sense when you think about how preoccupied he's seemed. but that doesn't explain him telling mary anne she's overreacting when she says tigger's disappearance is the worst thing that's happened to her. that doesn't make it better that he calls her sensitive (meaning it as a bad thing) and says she's being such a girl. logan, screw you.
-mary anne says tigger doesn't wear a collar with tags. and she lets him roam free outside. and he's a kitten. I kind of think his getting catnapped is mary anne's own fault.
-the bruno parents only vaguely punish kerry and then they let her get a pet. she's proven that she's responsible enough to keep a pet, by keeping tigger alive and fed and all, but YOU ARE REWARDING HER AWFUL BEHAVIOR. maybe she can take care of another living being, but that doesn't mean she's responsible enough to not bring a furry animal (that her brother is allergic to) into her house, and it doesn't mean that she's responsible enough to not steal someone else's pet. bruno parents, you are bad parents.
kristy's cafeteria food description:
-'"anyone care for some fish eyes and glue?" she asked, holding out her dish of tapioca pudding.'
one claudia outfit:
-"Like a loose blouse with a fake coat of arms on it worn over a very short black skirt. Around her waist, a scarf. On her feet, short black boots. Dangling from her ears, dinosaurs. And her hair might be piled on top of her head and held in place with hairpins that look like seahorses."
one snack in claudia's room:
-double stuf oreos under her bed
October 28, 2021
I don't know what it is about the Mary Anne books, but they really capture my attention and make me think in a way the other books really don't.
Much like Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery, I found this book to be more evidence that Logan is absolutely up to no good where Mary Anne is concerned. There's NO WAY you can convince me that Logan didn't steal that cat.
The previous book established that Logan becomes insanely jealous and passive aggressive about anything that takes Mary Anne's attention away from him. Last time, it was the BSC. This time, it's poor little Tigger.
Once again, Logan is at the center of an elaborate scheme that involves luring the girls to the middle of nowhere, setting himself up to be the "hero" that rescues Mary Anne.
And not for nothing, this is the second time Mary Anne has suspected Logan and thought he was capable of doing something terrible to her. Mary Anne, LISTEN TO YOUR GUT. Your subconscious is literally screaming at you that Logan is a huge creep.
Much like Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery, I found this book to be more evidence that Logan is absolutely up to no good where Mary Anne is concerned. There's NO WAY you can convince me that Logan didn't steal that cat.
The previous book established that Logan becomes insanely jealous and passive aggressive about anything that takes Mary Anne's attention away from him. Last time, it was the BSC. This time, it's poor little Tigger.
Once again, Logan is at the center of an elaborate scheme that involves luring the girls to the middle of nowhere, setting himself up to be the "hero" that rescues Mary Anne.
And not for nothing, this is the second time Mary Anne has suspected Logan and thought he was capable of doing something terrible to her. Mary Anne, LISTEN TO YOUR GUT. Your subconscious is literally screaming at you that Logan is a huge creep.
March 22, 2017
Mary Anne decides she is babying Tigger like hee father used to baby her. She leaves Tigger outside to play while she is at a BSC meeting.
Tigger goes missing. Mary Anne assumes he has been cat napped (causing mass panic to all pet owning kids in Stonybrooke). Logan acts lile a jerk. Mary Anne cries. The BSC members make lost cat posters, but after 5 days they start to think he's dead and Mary Anne should get a new cat (jeez, harsh friends!)
Does Mary Anne find Tigger? Do Mary Anne and Logan make up??
You must read it to find out.
Tigger goes missing. Mary Anne assumes he has been cat napped (causing mass panic to all pet owning kids in Stonybrooke). Logan acts lile a jerk. Mary Anne cries. The BSC members make lost cat posters, but after 5 days they start to think he's dead and Mary Anne should get a new cat (jeez, harsh friends!)
Does Mary Anne find Tigger? Do Mary Anne and Logan make up??
You must read it to find out.
September 3, 2018
I like when the gang pulls off a plan to outsmart someone who's trying to pull a fast one on them (like the kid trying to pull off a ransom in this book, or Cokie and friends trying to scare the BSC in #17.) I just love the teamwork and sneakiness.
But otherwise, not a favourite BSC book. A little dull, the baby-sitting side stories are boring, and Logan Bruno is a huge jerk. (But every BSC book will get a five star rating lol.)
But otherwise, not a favourite BSC book. A little dull, the baby-sitting side stories are boring, and Logan Bruno is a huge jerk. (But every BSC book will get a five star rating lol.)
January 28, 2018
2★
One of the more mediocre books within the series.
One of the more mediocre books within the series.
June 23, 2023
Not my favorite Mary Anne but I'm a little biased about her books
Also why is Logan such a jerk once you get passed Logan likes Mary Ann
Also why is Logan such a jerk once you get passed Logan likes Mary Ann
March 6, 2023
My cat’s toes are so cute
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June 12, 2024Maryanne and the Search for Tigger
It starts off Dawn and Maryanne are going to the pet shop to get toys for Tigger, somehow his cat toys keep falling in the space behind the refrigerator and Maryanne can’t reach them. So, a lot of her money keeps going toward getting new ones. Dawn and Maryanne talk about their parents date and both think their mom and dad had a good time. Maryanne gets two packs of three balls. They drop them off to him (Tigger) and then head for the meeting. At the end of the meeting, Logan calls because his parents need a sitter for Kerri and Hunter (his brother and sister). He can’t do it because he has baseball practice. Maryanne wants the job and gets it.
It’s a Friday after school and Logan and Maryanne are sitting outside her house. (They can’t go in because she’s not allowed to have boys over when her dad isn’t there). So she’s sitting there watching Tigger play and exclaiming every other minute how cute he is. Then she tells him not to go to far off which makes her think of how her dad use to be over protective. Then she wonders if she’s being too overprotective. Logan gets short tempered with her and says again. Like he’s heard this a million times. So, the conversation gets kinda non-existent until Jaime stops by and starts to play with Tigger. Then Myriah and Gabby come over. I wanna say Logan’s problem here is that he’s tired of kids always being around Maryanne, He says “overrun with kids” in a kind of annoyed way. But then Myriah and Gabby say they have something to show Jaime and they all leave. But then Charlotte comes by and plays with Tigger. When she leaves, so does Logan. Before he leaves and they’re taking about what Maryanne can expect he says Hunter’s allergies are bad and that Kerri is going through a stage where she wants to be more independent.
Maryanne is making dinner after a club meeting when she realizes that Tigger isn’t beside her so she looks all over the house. He’s not in any of the rooms. Her dad and she take flashlights and look outside. He’s not out there either. They take his toys and jiggle them so they make noise. This doesn’t do anything. By eleven Tigger still hasn’t shown up. The next morning, he’s not back either. So, Maryanne goes to her sitting job at the Brunos.
Hunter’s allergies are having a field day wit hhim. He wants to go outside but Maryanne decides best to keep him inside. So they play games in his room (one called Vet, and Chutes and Ladders). Kerri is being way to helpful and keeps going to her room to “check on something”. When Maryanne gets back, Tigger still isn’t there. She calls Kristy and Kristy declares an emergency meeting. They decide to put “Missing” Posters. They’ll also offer a reward. Combining their own money and some from the treasury they come up with 30.00. This touches Maryanne. Then they decide to put his picture on the poster. Claudia draws an exact replica. When she calls Logan later he says “Gett that’s too bad”. He’s distracted watching videos from the practice.
I’m not sure if this is an actual sitting job but Jessi is watching Squirt and Becca. Squit is just learning to feed himself and gets food everywhere. They start talking about Tigger and Becca says that the) -the people that she had a job pet sitting for= has a cat that is about to have babies. Becca says if they don’t find Tigger maybe they’ll give Maryanne one of the kittens. Jessi says she might not want another kitten right away. Then Beccaa helps Squirt walk and shows Jessi that because she (Beeca) cheered him on, now he cheers himself on. (It is kinda cute!)
Kristy gets the posters made and the BSC (plus Logan) meet and go around the neighboorhood on Sunday putting the posters up. Logan says he’s sorry about Tigger but then tells Maryanne she’s being to dramatic when she says it’s the worse thing that every happened to her. Mallory is speed posting figuring that the quicker they put them out the quicker they find Tigger. Mr. Spier offers to put some posters in the window of the store and some other places on his way out, Maryanne starts to worry if Tigger is lost, or has been hit, or if he’s dead. A boy that looks about 10 tries to be slick and mislead Maryanne into thinking she’s seen Tigger so he’ll get the reward. He said his name was on his collar only Tigger didn’t have on a collar. He asks was it for information letting to him. She says no it’s for putting him in her hands. Charlotte, Myriah, Gabby, Nicky, and Matt join the search. Jaime says if he had thirty dollars he’d buy a thousand racing cars, but he’d father just have Tigger back.
Jamie suggests on another day they look again. So, she takes him, Lucy, Myriah and Gabby and they look around some more. Maryanne goes back home and finds a ransom note in the mail asking for 100.00. Maryanne invites Logan to the next meeting and tells him about the note but he seems not to be too excited over it. At the meeting when she tears up he doesn’t even do anything to console her. They talk it over and decide that a child wrote the note. There’s no proof that this person has Tigger. Just an ampty threat. (The note says I If You Want To See Your Cat Alive). There’s no picture of Tigger just Claudia’s drawing. Then 100,00 doesn’t seem like all that much for him. So Logan comes up with a plan. Maryanne will go to Brenner’s Field and leave an velope with fake money. Then she’ll go home, but sneak back. The others will be hidden and they’ll bust the person
Dawn sits for the Barrett’s. Buddy, and Suzy have heard about Tigger’s kidnapping and have decided to guard Pow so the same thing won’t happen to him. Matt told Buddy. Nickey told him. Jaime told him. So, they built him a special box. Dawn says how about if he let Pow out if he agrees not to go anywhere without him knowing it. Then tomorrow they’ll know if someone really kidnapped Tigger. Buddy wants to know how they’ll know. D awn says they just will. Then she gives him the good news that his mom said he can watch a show called “Dragon Warriors”.
Later that night, Dawn and Maryanne talk during a storm. Dawn mentions that Logan’s been having a rough time on the field. She saw one of his games and he missed a play and got teased.
The person who wrote the randsome note turns out to be the same kid that tried to get the money out of Maryanne. He doesn’t have Tigger. Logan asks Maryanne if she wants to turn him in and make a citizens arrest. She says it isn’t worth it. Dlaudia sits for the Perkins girl. The job consists of listening to them sing songs like “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” and “Blue Suede Shoes” and playing detectives. Jaime comes by and they pretend o look for Tigger (but it’s really RC the Perkins caT).
When Maryanne sits for Hunter she notices his sneezing is worse so she tries to find out the cause. It’s not her perfume. It’s not her clothes. It’s not his Erector set. To her surprise she searches Kerri’s room and finds Tigger. Kerri admits she found Tigger the day the weather was bad and took him home. Later, she realized who he was but said that Maryanne clearly wasn’t doing a good job taking care of him and she knew she could do better. She never missed a day of feeding him and brought his a dish, food, and toys. Mrs. Hunter tells her she still can’t have a pet. Her brothers allergies are just too bad. Maryanne gets it in her mind that Logan must have known but didn’t say anything because he was protecting his sister.
She decides to ask him after practice, but he says he didn’t know anything about it. He tells her the reason he hasn’t been herself is because he’s about to get kicked off the baseball team. The coach expects more from him than anyone else since he use to be a star player on his old team. At the BSC meeting, Logan updates them that Kerri will be allowed to get a hairless pet tho she will be lightly punished by washing the car. She’ll also start to hang out with Charlotte (I think they have a playdate).
My Thoughts:
Maybe Richard and Maryanne need to put a fence around their house. I’m just saying if it’s that easy for Tigger to wander off into the street. Not that he couldn’t still slip out. My mom had a dog once and we have a fenced backyard and he *still* somehow found himself in a neighbor’s yard WAY up the street. I’m not really sure how that happened but if Richard is a lawer its something he *night* want to consider.
Then I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Males take sports WAY to seriously. Maryanne was a lot more understanding than I would have been. You got cut from a middle school baseball team? OH KAAY and thas a reason for you to be insensitive to your girlfriend whose going through it because her pet might be hurt or dead. If that’s the way you treated that situation, I’d hate to see what youd do if something happened to her FATHER! C’mon Logan. I’m disappointed in you. Although you *did* come up with a good plan. I guess that gives you some points back. Still, GET OVER IT! It’s not like your playing pro and lost a ton of money. And Maryanne take this as a lesson. Now you see how Logan will handle things in your life if things are bad in his and close up your cat’s door when you aren’t home (and your fathers)
Rating: 5 It’s weird that a few chapters in after not reading this book for years I remembered about Kerri and I thought oh Kerri has it=with nothing in the story to go on or point me in that direction-.
It starts off Dawn and Maryanne are going to the pet shop to get toys for Tigger, somehow his cat toys keep falling in the space behind the refrigerator and Maryanne can’t reach them. So, a lot of her money keeps going toward getting new ones. Dawn and Maryanne talk about their parents date and both think their mom and dad had a good time. Maryanne gets two packs of three balls. They drop them off to him (Tigger) and then head for the meeting. At the end of the meeting, Logan calls because his parents need a sitter for Kerri and Hunter (his brother and sister). He can’t do it because he has baseball practice. Maryanne wants the job and gets it.
It’s a Friday after school and Logan and Maryanne are sitting outside her house. (They can’t go in because she’s not allowed to have boys over when her dad isn’t there). So she’s sitting there watching Tigger play and exclaiming every other minute how cute he is. Then she tells him not to go to far off which makes her think of how her dad use to be over protective. Then she wonders if she’s being too overprotective. Logan gets short tempered with her and says again. Like he’s heard this a million times. So, the conversation gets kinda non-existent until Jaime stops by and starts to play with Tigger. Then Myriah and Gabby come over. I wanna say Logan’s problem here is that he’s tired of kids always being around Maryanne, He says “overrun with kids” in a kind of annoyed way. But then Myriah and Gabby say they have something to show Jaime and they all leave. But then Charlotte comes by and plays with Tigger. When she leaves, so does Logan. Before he leaves and they’re taking about what Maryanne can expect he says Hunter’s allergies are bad and that Kerri is going through a stage where she wants to be more independent.
Maryanne is making dinner after a club meeting when she realizes that Tigger isn’t beside her so she looks all over the house. He’s not in any of the rooms. Her dad and she take flashlights and look outside. He’s not out there either. They take his toys and jiggle them so they make noise. This doesn’t do anything. By eleven Tigger still hasn’t shown up. The next morning, he’s not back either. So, Maryanne goes to her sitting job at the Brunos.
Hunter’s allergies are having a field day wit hhim. He wants to go outside but Maryanne decides best to keep him inside. So they play games in his room (one called Vet, and Chutes and Ladders). Kerri is being way to helpful and keeps going to her room to “check on something”. When Maryanne gets back, Tigger still isn’t there. She calls Kristy and Kristy declares an emergency meeting. They decide to put “Missing” Posters. They’ll also offer a reward. Combining their own money and some from the treasury they come up with 30.00. This touches Maryanne. Then they decide to put his picture on the poster. Claudia draws an exact replica. When she calls Logan later he says “Gett that’s too bad”. He’s distracted watching videos from the practice.
I’m not sure if this is an actual sitting job but Jessi is watching Squirt and Becca. Squit is just learning to feed himself and gets food everywhere. They start talking about Tigger and Becca says that the) -the people that she had a job pet sitting for= has a cat that is about to have babies. Becca says if they don’t find Tigger maybe they’ll give Maryanne one of the kittens. Jessi says she might not want another kitten right away. Then Beccaa helps Squirt walk and shows Jessi that because she (Beeca) cheered him on, now he cheers himself on. (It is kinda cute!)
Kristy gets the posters made and the BSC (plus Logan) meet and go around the neighboorhood on Sunday putting the posters up. Logan says he’s sorry about Tigger but then tells Maryanne she’s being to dramatic when she says it’s the worse thing that every happened to her. Mallory is speed posting figuring that the quicker they put them out the quicker they find Tigger. Mr. Spier offers to put some posters in the window of the store and some other places on his way out, Maryanne starts to worry if Tigger is lost, or has been hit, or if he’s dead. A boy that looks about 10 tries to be slick and mislead Maryanne into thinking she’s seen Tigger so he’ll get the reward. He said his name was on his collar only Tigger didn’t have on a collar. He asks was it for information letting to him. She says no it’s for putting him in her hands. Charlotte, Myriah, Gabby, Nicky, and Matt join the search. Jaime says if he had thirty dollars he’d buy a thousand racing cars, but he’d father just have Tigger back.
Jamie suggests on another day they look again. So, she takes him, Lucy, Myriah and Gabby and they look around some more. Maryanne goes back home and finds a ransom note in the mail asking for 100.00. Maryanne invites Logan to the next meeting and tells him about the note but he seems not to be too excited over it. At the meeting when she tears up he doesn’t even do anything to console her. They talk it over and decide that a child wrote the note. There’s no proof that this person has Tigger. Just an ampty threat. (The note says I If You Want To See Your Cat Alive). There’s no picture of Tigger just Claudia’s drawing. Then 100,00 doesn’t seem like all that much for him. So Logan comes up with a plan. Maryanne will go to Brenner’s Field and leave an velope with fake money. Then she’ll go home, but sneak back. The others will be hidden and they’ll bust the person
Dawn sits for the Barrett’s. Buddy, and Suzy have heard about Tigger’s kidnapping and have decided to guard Pow so the same thing won’t happen to him. Matt told Buddy. Nickey told him. Jaime told him. So, they built him a special box. Dawn says how about if he let Pow out if he agrees not to go anywhere without him knowing it. Then tomorrow they’ll know if someone really kidnapped Tigger. Buddy wants to know how they’ll know. D awn says they just will. Then she gives him the good news that his mom said he can watch a show called “Dragon Warriors”.
Later that night, Dawn and Maryanne talk during a storm. Dawn mentions that Logan’s been having a rough time on the field. She saw one of his games and he missed a play and got teased.
The person who wrote the randsome note turns out to be the same kid that tried to get the money out of Maryanne. He doesn’t have Tigger. Logan asks Maryanne if she wants to turn him in and make a citizens arrest. She says it isn’t worth it. Dlaudia sits for the Perkins girl. The job consists of listening to them sing songs like “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” and “Blue Suede Shoes” and playing detectives. Jaime comes by and they pretend o look for Tigger (but it’s really RC the Perkins caT).
When Maryanne sits for Hunter she notices his sneezing is worse so she tries to find out the cause. It’s not her perfume. It’s not her clothes. It’s not his Erector set. To her surprise she searches Kerri’s room and finds Tigger. Kerri admits she found Tigger the day the weather was bad and took him home. Later, she realized who he was but said that Maryanne clearly wasn’t doing a good job taking care of him and she knew she could do better. She never missed a day of feeding him and brought his a dish, food, and toys. Mrs. Hunter tells her she still can’t have a pet. Her brothers allergies are just too bad. Maryanne gets it in her mind that Logan must have known but didn’t say anything because he was protecting his sister.
She decides to ask him after practice, but he says he didn’t know anything about it. He tells her the reason he hasn’t been herself is because he’s about to get kicked off the baseball team. The coach expects more from him than anyone else since he use to be a star player on his old team. At the BSC meeting, Logan updates them that Kerri will be allowed to get a hairless pet tho she will be lightly punished by washing the car. She’ll also start to hang out with Charlotte (I think they have a playdate).
My Thoughts:
Maybe Richard and Maryanne need to put a fence around their house. I’m just saying if it’s that easy for Tigger to wander off into the street. Not that he couldn’t still slip out. My mom had a dog once and we have a fenced backyard and he *still* somehow found himself in a neighbor’s yard WAY up the street. I’m not really sure how that happened but if Richard is a lawer its something he *night* want to consider.
Then I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Males take sports WAY to seriously. Maryanne was a lot more understanding than I would have been. You got cut from a middle school baseball team? OH KAAY and thas a reason for you to be insensitive to your girlfriend whose going through it because her pet might be hurt or dead. If that’s the way you treated that situation, I’d hate to see what youd do if something happened to her FATHER! C’mon Logan. I’m disappointed in you. Although you *did* come up with a good plan. I guess that gives you some points back. Still, GET OVER IT! It’s not like your playing pro and lost a ton of money. And Maryanne take this as a lesson. Now you see how Logan will handle things in your life if things are bad in his and close up your cat’s door when you aren’t home (and your fathers)
Rating: 5 It’s weird that a few chapters in after not reading this book for years I remembered about Kerri and I thought oh Kerri has it=with nothing in the story to go on or point me in that direction-.
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September 25, 2021
You have to try pretty hard to get me to dislike a book centering on a missing cat.
This is definitely one of the weaker ones in the series. The central "plot" - Mary Anne's kitten Tigger has gone missing - is kind of thin and everything about it is super obvious. She left the kitten (not clear how old he is, since she calls him a kitten for like multiple books) outside playing by himself when she went to the BSC meeting. Then she comes home and he's gone. Quelle surprise! Not sure she's ready to be a pet parent if she thought it was fine to leave a young cat who is mostly indoors out in the front yard alone for an hour. Then the "reveal" is also really obvious the moment you encounter the character who took the cat. I would've read this one first when I was 10 or so, and I can recall being like "Well duh" when we find out where Tigger is.
There were also too many side-chapters, and I really didn't like what a little douchebag Logan acts like towards Mary Anne through most of the book, all because—we eventually find out—he's worried he's going to get kicked off the baseball team. Dude, she's your girlfriend, why wouldn't you tell her that?? 13 is old enough to use your words. Plus he told her she was overreacting to her cat being missing, so he's obviously a serial killer.
I'm kidding.
But he could be.
I'm just saying, most serial killers start out by killing animals, and I'm pretty sure having a sociopathic lack of empathy about a missing pet would go along with that.
But I digress.
So yeah, definitely a weak spot in the series. Tigger deserves a better book and a better mom.
This is definitely one of the weaker ones in the series. The central "plot" - Mary Anne's kitten Tigger has gone missing - is kind of thin and everything about it is super obvious. She left the kitten (not clear how old he is, since she calls him a kitten for like multiple books) outside playing by himself when she went to the BSC meeting. Then she comes home and he's gone. Quelle surprise! Not sure she's ready to be a pet parent if she thought it was fine to leave a young cat who is mostly indoors out in the front yard alone for an hour. Then the "reveal" is also really obvious the moment you encounter the character who took the cat. I would've read this one first when I was 10 or so, and I can recall being like "Well duh" when we find out where Tigger is.
There were also too many side-chapters, and I really didn't like what a little douchebag Logan acts like towards Mary Anne through most of the book, all because—we eventually find out—he's worried he's going to get kicked off the baseball team. Dude, she's your girlfriend, why wouldn't you tell her that?? 13 is old enough to use your words. Plus he told her she was overreacting to her cat being missing, so he's obviously a serial killer.
I'm kidding.
But he could be.
I'm just saying, most serial killers start out by killing animals, and I'm pretty sure having a sociopathic lack of empathy about a missing pet would go along with that.
But I digress.
So yeah, definitely a weak spot in the series. Tigger deserves a better book and a better mom.
December 28, 2022
This book falls into the category of… this plot only works in the 80’s. 😂
Mary Anne’s cat goes missing so the girls design a missing poster for him. They even find a picture to draw a likeness from for the poster. Why they didn’t just tape the photo to the poster, I’ll never know. 🤣
Then they have Kristy’s mom drive twenty minutes after dark on a Saturday to her office to make a gazillion photocopies of it. I would never do that for my kid’s friend, for the record. 😂 This after an emergency Saturday afternoon meeting of the Babysitters Club. They then get up at 8:30 the next morning to paper the town with a bunch of the neighborhood 5-year-olds in tow. Seriously are all the parents OK with this? 🤣
Oh and I should point out… they also casually broke federal law by stuffing them in every mailbox up and down the street. I’m looking forward to the sequel with Mary Anne getting locked up in a federal penitentiary for tampering with federal property. 😂🚔
I’ll leave it a mystery about how and when they get the cat back. 🐈
Overall, not my favorite of this series. Mary Anne seemed overly whiny to me. And I love cats… don’t get me wrong. But she was just very distraught in this one. It didn’t help that Logan was being weird and insensitive as well. 🤣
Anywho…. 3 stars.
Mary Anne’s cat goes missing so the girls design a missing poster for him. They even find a picture to draw a likeness from for the poster. Why they didn’t just tape the photo to the poster, I’ll never know. 🤣
Then they have Kristy’s mom drive twenty minutes after dark on a Saturday to her office to make a gazillion photocopies of it. I would never do that for my kid’s friend, for the record. 😂 This after an emergency Saturday afternoon meeting of the Babysitters Club. They then get up at 8:30 the next morning to paper the town with a bunch of the neighborhood 5-year-olds in tow. Seriously are all the parents OK with this? 🤣
Oh and I should point out… they also casually broke federal law by stuffing them in every mailbox up and down the street. I’m looking forward to the sequel with Mary Anne getting locked up in a federal penitentiary for tampering with federal property. 😂🚔
I’ll leave it a mystery about how and when they get the cat back. 🐈
Overall, not my favorite of this series. Mary Anne seemed overly whiny to me. And I love cats… don’t get me wrong. But she was just very distraught in this one. It didn’t help that Logan was being weird and insensitive as well. 🤣
Anywho…. 3 stars.
January 20, 2023
Ugh Logan sucks! I must not have read as many of Mary Anne's books when I was growing up, fortunately. He is toxic, his apologies do not make up for his behavior, and Mary Anne winds up subverting her own personality and needs and reinforcing harmful gender expectations. It also appears Logan models his actions on his dad's, whose only action in the whole book is to tap his wife on the shoulder, as she's trying to get all the kids ready for a babysitter, to tell her they need to leave. While Logan's and Mary Anne's make-up conversation DOES model good relationship communication and mutual respect, his treatment of her the entire rest of the book--including the emotional manipulation of telling her he's hurt that she could accuse him of knowing something and not telling her when he'd been secretive and insensitive toward her for weeks--is truly toxic, and can't be mitigated by a "guess we were both wrong" apology.
August 10, 2023
Tigger story! I LOVE how the BSC all banded together to find Tigger and even donated their own money and cash from the treasury to help find him.
I'm usually Team Logan and I long thought the writers made too big a deal of him being controlling when he really wasn't and they just needed a conflict. But he was a totally insensitive jerk in this book. I don’t care about his aseball troubles, he wasn't there for Mary Anne and legit grouched that she was overreacting to Tigger's disappearance. So he's a total a-hole in my book and Mary Anne should've left him right then and there.
Also, that 10 year old boy who tried to get the reward money is a total jerk. I'm glad Mary Anne told him off and Logan scared him with legal speak. (Logan at least came through there.) But they should have found out his name and ratted him out to his mommy.
I'm usually Team Logan and I long thought the writers made too big a deal of him being controlling when he really wasn't and they just needed a conflict. But he was a totally insensitive jerk in this book. I don’t care about his aseball troubles, he wasn't there for Mary Anne and legit grouched that she was overreacting to Tigger's disappearance. So he's a total a-hole in my book and Mary Anne should've left him right then and there.
Also, that 10 year old boy who tried to get the reward money is a total jerk. I'm glad Mary Anne told him off and Logan scared him with legal speak. (Logan at least came through there.) But they should have found out his name and ratted him out to his mommy.
September 16, 2024
This is one of the first BSC books I ever read, and because of that I always kind of thought Logan was a huge jerk. His “explanation” for why he was so awful to Mary Anne in this book never rang true for me, and so I always side-eyed him a little in future books.
My favorite part of this book is when Buddy wants to hide Pow because he thinks there might be someone stealing people’s pets and selling them for high dollar and everyone laughs at him. And yet, that exact plot appears very soon in a Dawn mystery, so clearly they all owe Buddy an apology.
Also, I always thought the kid who demands the ransom is that Mel Tucker kid who bullies everyone, but upon re-reading this he’s never actually named so I don’t know why I thought that.
And poor Hunter! This kid has such severe allergies that he has to sleep in basically a cement-padded dungeon with no toys or stuffed animals. Did allergy shots not exist back then?
My favorite part of this book is when Buddy wants to hide Pow because he thinks there might be someone stealing people’s pets and selling them for high dollar and everyone laughs at him. And yet, that exact plot appears very soon in a Dawn mystery, so clearly they all owe Buddy an apology.
Also, I always thought the kid who demands the ransom is that Mel Tucker kid who bullies everyone, but upon re-reading this he’s never actually named so I don’t know why I thought that.
And poor Hunter! This kid has such severe allergies that he has to sleep in basically a cement-padded dungeon with no toys or stuffed animals. Did allergy shots not exist back then?
February 5, 2024
I asked my mom what she remembered about Logan. She said, "Nice, cute, baby-sitter".
That's how everyone remembers Logan... but Logan was a huge jerk in this book. He didn't care at all when Mary Anne lost her kitten. Mary Anne and Logan were both kinda annoying in this book, but Logan really was the worst.
That's how everyone remembers Logan... but Logan was a huge jerk in this book. He didn't care at all when Mary Anne lost her kitten. Mary Anne and Logan were both kinda annoying in this book, but Logan really was the worst.
August 4, 2017
Mary Anne books are so hit or miss. They're either pretty decent or just total steaming dumpster fires. This one was in the dumpster fire category, honestly. I have never liked the 'kid hides an animal from friends and family trope' and this happens a couple of times in the BSC-verse (notably in New York, New York when Kristy finds a stray dog in Central Park).
Anyway, Logan Bruno is also a sort of horrible person sometimes. He's been pretty consistently dickish in other books, and he was really bad in this one. He could have just been honest about his issue from the get-go instead of snapping and being nasty, but that would be to easy for Logan Bruno.
Anyway, Logan Bruno is also a sort of horrible person sometimes. He's been pretty consistently dickish in other books, and he was really bad in this one. He could have just been honest about his issue from the get-go instead of snapping and being nasty, but that would be to easy for Logan Bruno.
January 31, 2020
Mary Anne, her kitten Tigger, and her boyfriend Logan are baby-sitting his siblings Hunter and Kerry until she left for a BSC meeting. When she came home, Mary Anne was supposed to meet Tigger in her house, but he's missing for hours and days! When the entire Baby-Sitters Club heard Mary Anne's news about her lost kitten, Kristy, the president who has lots of ideas, holds a meetup regarding to that, with a long time to search for him and a mystery letter that uncovers about Mary Anne's issue. The entire story focuses about Mary Anne and her lost kitten, and this is a pretty good book for animal lovers, especially kittens, mystery and adventures in one.
June 11, 2024
I’m not a fan of mysteries but this one kept me guessing so I enjoyed it. Well, I guessed the location but not exactly the who/when/why. I must admit I was pretty mad Mary Anne just left Tigger outside by himself without a collar.
Though I must say I would have dropped Logan so fast, even after apologies. Sorry not sorry.
[“Oh come on. Don’t be so dramatic, Mary Anne. A lost kitten is sad, but aren’t you overreacting a little?” I had nothing to say to that.]
I would have shown him an overreaction 🤬
Also in the back of mine it showed that Michelle Smith won a trip to Disney in 1988. Congrats Michelle!
Though I must say I would have dropped Logan so fast, even after apologies. Sorry not sorry.
[“Oh come on. Don’t be so dramatic, Mary Anne. A lost kitten is sad, but aren’t you overreacting a little?” I had nothing to say to that.]
I would have shown him an overreaction 🤬
Also in the back of mine it showed that Michelle Smith won a trip to Disney in 1988. Congrats Michelle!
January 3, 2025
I wasn't sure how to rate this book because while I liked a few parts, it eventually became more of a chore to listen to the audiobook. However, I liked it enough to give it 3 stars, just not enough to give it 4 or 5. It got annoying in a few parts, which is why the rating is low.
Despite the rating, I recommend this series to the children it is aimed at because you can learn a few things even though these books are pretty old. This is my last audiobook of the series but part of me wants to continue listening to these audiobooks.
Despite the rating, I recommend this series to the children it is aimed at because you can learn a few things even though these books are pretty old. This is my last audiobook of the series but part of me wants to continue listening to these audiobooks.
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