What do you think?
Rate this book
Sweet Valley Twins #54
The Big Party Weekend
Home alone...
While Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield are away on holiday in Mexico, twins Jessica and Elizabeth and their older brother, Steven, are left with May Brown, the world's most horrible baby-sitter!
But the Wakefield kids are determined to throw a party on Saturday night, with great food, fabulous music, all their friends—and no adults. They make an elaborate plan to get May out of the house, and the party of the year is on!
By the end of the party, the house is a wreck. How will Jessica, Elizabeth, and Steven ever get the mess cleaned up before May—and their parents—come home?
While Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield are away on holiday in Mexico, twins Jessica and Elizabeth and their older brother, Steven, are left with May Brown, the world's most horrible baby-sitter!
But the Wakefield kids are determined to throw a party on Saturday night, with great food, fabulous music, all their friends—and no adults. They make an elaborate plan to get May out of the house, and the party of the year is on!
By the end of the party, the house is a wreck. How will Jessica, Elizabeth, and Steven ever get the mess cleaned up before May—and their parents—come home?
135 pages, Paperback
First published June 28, 1991
2 people are currently reading
211 people want to read
About the author
Francine Pascal
1,139 books1,850 followersFrancine Paula Pascal was an American author best known for her Sweet Valley series of young adult novels. Sweet Valley High, the backbone of the collection, was made into a television series, which led to several spin-offs, including The Unicorn Club and Sweet Valley University. Although most of these books were published in the 1980s and 1990s, they remained so popular that several titles were re-released decades later.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews
Read
May 31, 2025The Big Party Weekend
The Wakefield’s haven’t even left for Mexico and Jessica already has a party planned in her head. Liz has her suspicions she’s up to something but when she asks her she says nothing.., yet. It’s not long before (on Monday) she’s telling the Unicorns (at their table). It’ll be on Saturday around 7. The guest list -everybody-. Well, everyone that is they want to invite. The next to get an invite is Aaron Dallas.
Before Jessica can tell Liz, she finds out when Aaron, Todd, and Ken ask her what time the party is. Liz doesn’t think they should have a big party without telling their parents, but of course she lets Jessica talk her into it and says they’ll have to be careful. Steven one day tells the twins, he’s having a party on Saturday. Jessica tells him they’re having a party on Saturday. Jessica says they can combine their parties. Steven says ok as long as her friends stay out of his friend’s way. They wonder how they’re going to get the money to pay for the food. The only one that has money is Jessica (who says she’s got five on it).
Liz feels guilty about the party and wants to do something to make it up to her parents. So, she asks them if they want them to do anything special while their gone. Ned says to separate some of the junk in the garage into boxes so he’ll know what to keep and what to throw out. Steven suggests they have a garage sale. It’s the perfect way to solve their money problem. Ned says ok but he was just going to donate the stuff to charity. Steven says they can sell the stuff and give half of the money to charity and then keep the other half.
But days before the trip, their parents drop the bomb on them that a lady named May Brown -whose elderly- will be coming to stay with them. They beg and plead and try to convince their parents they can stay by themselves, but Ned and Alice say their mind is made up. The next morning, Jessica makes Liz promise not to tell anyone the party is off until she thinks of a good excuse. When the Unicorns come up to her, she decides to keep on talking the party up. The ask how long the party will go and she says probably until midnight.
Amy tells Liz she’s invited her new boyfriend Rob to the party. She’s over Ken. All he talks about is football and he just talks to her when he needs help with math. Rob is in the eight grade and Amy meet him at the mall. She says he’s on the soccer team and he’s good at video games and he’s funny. Amy says maybe they can double sometimes (dates). Jessica says she doesn’t see why they still have to have the garage sale. Liz says they promised. They argue back and forth about their new baby-sitter. Liz thinks she’ll be sweet and bake cookies for them like their grandmother. She’s wrong!
When they walk in they see Steven and May glaring at each other. First, she gets on them for being “late”. She won’t let them snack between meals. Then she starts laying down the house rules. 1 Lights out at 9:00 2 Only one hour of tv a day. They even have to go bed at nine on weekends. Those are the main two. The others are about not turning the stereo up and no running in the house. May doesn’t like Steven’s smart mouth or Jessica’s back talk so she sends Jessica to her room. Steven, Liz, and Jessica meet up in Jessica’s room. They decide that maybe if May doesn’t want to stay they get rid of her by the time they hae the party.
May makes the twins eat spinach and broccoli. (At least it’s not cabbage). The only eatable think is chicken catchatori. Steven dumps his out the window. May keeps calling the twins the wrong name. Jessica has put her hair in a pony tail and has on a blue oxford shirt like Liz. The twins try to toss theirs too but May catches them. After dinner she makes them go on a 2 mile walk. Later on that night, May starts shrieking and shows them her wet, purple, hair. None of them fess up so she says she’ll deal with them later.
Jessica says she put the dye from last Halloween into her shampoo bottle. Then Jessica hides her clothes. She looks all over the house and eventually finds them on her bed where she left them. They tell her maybe she should go to bed early. She might be getting senile. May makes them come up in the hallway (blowing a whistle). She says they owe her an apology for bothering her private things. She says she’s not going anywhere until they do. Jessica walks off and she tells Elizabeth to come back. Jessica says she doesn’t know she was talking to her. May says that’s it. Obviously, their parents don’t care that they run wild and they need to be taught some manners. So, she gives them chores. Jessica has to clean up her room and empty all the trash baskets. Liz has to empty the trash baskets in the bathroom and Steven has to dust.
She says they can finish their homework in the morning and they’ll be waking up at 5:30. So, at 3:44 the twins rig the alarm clock to go off. Then they rig the clock radio to go off and put it on a station that plays obnoxious heavy metal. When May goes to check on the twins they’re in the bed pretending to be sleep. The twins wake up early and May mentions the clocks. The twins say it must have been their father who likes to wake up early so he can concentrate on his work. Steven comes down and says he’s going to make some coffee. Only he likes cinnamon in his. He hands May a cup and she drinks it. She runs out of the room to the bathroom eyes watering.
He put garlic powder, a couple of bay leaves, some cayenne pepper, and a few dashes of tabasco sauce in hers. May isn’t amused and when she returns she says they act like monsters. She doesn’t know how their parents epect anyone to watch them. Steven says they can watch themselves and if she wants to she can leave, but she says she’s staying. She was hired to watch them. She sends them off to do their homework and then revokes their phone privileges.
The day of the sale, May says she’s going out to get some groceries and leaves Liz with the instructions to watch the cash box and don’t let anyone walk in the flower bed. She asks if Liz is ready. Garage sales are a lot to organize. Liz says they can handle it. They aren’t kids. May says she’s not sure about that. She says don’t do anything rash while she’s gone. Liz just says she won’t be May says she’s sick of Liz’s attitude. She tells her she’ll be back. Liz says don’t hurry. She goes to get a cookie but May’s left a note no snacks.
Amy brings over Rob. He asks if they’re hard up for money -which puts Liz off to him instantly-. The girl who Liz was talking to before she started talking to them bought a velvet blue hat. Rob says she looked like she was charity. Liz defends her and says she likes when people dress different. The girl had her own style. Rob asks what kind of music they’re gonna play at the party and offers to bring some tapes. He says he has everything except the Emerald Girls-Amy’s favorite group- Amy says she doesn’t like them either. Liz notices how different Amy is acting.
She keeps giggling after everything he says but Liz doesn’t think he’s funny. He’s just an ass. Amy leaves with Rob to watch him play video games. The count so far is thirteen dollars. While Liz and Steven are in the house, Jessica thinks about how to still have her party. A man walks up and says she’s going to have a look around. Jessica is distracted and starts thinking of how she can get May to run out of gas so she won’t be back in time for the party. The man hands her something a (wooden) rose and offers to give her 80.00 for it. (Jessica doesn’t recognize the item from any of the tables).
Liz sees the blanket that was once covering the box of their mother’s antiques -that she didn’t want touched- is on the floor. She looks through the boxes and tells Jessica she just sold their (great-great) grandmother’s rose. Mrs. Wakefield had told Elizabeth all about her great-great-grandmother. Her name was Alice Larson, and she had come to the United States from Sweden when she was sixteen. Elizabeth's mother had been named after her (from the book). Liz says they have to get the rose back. It was the only thing their mother had of their great, great, grandmother and she knows that even tho Jessica is the one that did it, she’ll be the one blamed.
Liz makes Jessica tell her what the guy looked like (old faded jeans, blue stripped sweater, old sneakers, curly brown hair, baseball cap). Liz says she’s going to try and find him-leaving without hearing Jessica’s plan for the party-. Liz decides to call some antique dealers. May is taking a nap.
Everyone is super polite to May dinner. Steven eats a lot of the peas and Jessica says she loves the stuffed peppers. She asks about the garage sale and they tell her it went well. The good mood doesn’t last. Liz isn’t eating and May accuses her of having had snacks. She says she wasn’t and May tells her don’t take that tone with me. The same tone she took when she criticized the broccoli casserole. Liz says that wasn’t even her. It was Jessica. May says don’t blame her sister and finish he peas. Liz slams the fork down and she tells her careful she might break the china. Liz offers to do the dishes. Steven and Jessica offer to help. Then she says they can have their nightly “constitutional”.
Aaron’s still on for the party. Brooke says her mother might come from Paris so she might not be able to make it. Liz tells Amy about the rose, Jessica sold. Amy says that’s too bad and asks are they still on to go out for ice cream. Liz says she wants to spend the day looking at antique shops, but Amy talks her into it and says Rob can’t wait to meet Todd. They talk about the party and again says how much Rob wants to meet Todd. Then Todd shows up and they confirm the places to go to the ice-cream shop. Ken wants to go but Amy says she’s going with someone else. Ken walks off and tells Amy to have a great time. Then Amy walks out of the cafeteria too. Todd asks what’s up with that and Liz says he thinks Ken still likes Amy and amy still likes Ken too. Todd asks what Rob is like and Liz says she’ll let him judge for himself.
Liz goes to Valley Antiques and speaks with Martin Hannaford. She explains what happened. He takes her number and tells her he’ll call her if the rose turns up at his shop. She tells him don’t call before Sunday. Then she goes to meet up with her friends. They ask if she found it. Liz says no. Todd suggests it might turn up at another garage sale and he’ll help her look. Rob clearly has no interest in Liz’s problem and just wants to eat. Rob makes fun on the yogurt Liz orders. Todd tells her not to worry it’ll show up. They make plans to meet at his house. He asks if the party is still on and she says yeah.
May gives Liz a hard time about lying about where she’s been and calls her a spoiled brat. She tells her if she’s going to be this inconsiderate she can go to her room. Steven and Jessica are upstairs on the bed plotting. Liz tells them whatever their doing to get rid of May count her in. By Sunday afternoon, Todd and Liz have gone to several garage sales and still haven’t found the rose. Jessica says maybe someone will see the signs she put up. Or maybe their mom can track it down when she gets back. She’ll be mad but she’ll forgive Liz (them). She says she’ll tell her it was her fault.
Steven comes into the kitchen with muddy shoes. Then he throws them and when she tells him to be careful, he says it’s my house. Then he microwaves some fries. He and May get into an argument and he tells her he’s sick of all her rules and living there. Then he packs his things and leaves, tells May he’s going to get as far away from her as he can and he’s never coming back. After dinner, Steven calls and says he went to a friends but the friend isn’t there. Now he’s at a convenience store and needs May to pick him up. When she tells the girls to stay there and leaves.
Steven takes a cab back home and they get ready for the party. Brooke does come to the party. She says her mother will be there next week and says she has surprises for her. She’s kinda worried about it. Rob continues to act like a jerk and ask if they have pizza and ice cream. Amy admits she doesn’t really like him but she was scared that she’d lose Liz because of Todd. Liz tells her that won’t happen. Amy says now how does she get rid of Rob. Liz says just don’t go out with him again. May calls. She’s still trying to follow Steven’s directions and is two hours from SV. Liz and Jess tell her the noise she hears is the tv. They’re too upset to sleep. Liz admits she feels bad for May but Jess is having too much fun.
The party gets out of control (as we all knew it would). A lot of things happen. People start taking food that’s not set out. They go upstairs. Someone breaks a lamp. A lot of people start arriving that neither of the Wakefields know. Liz and Steven try to get all the people outside inside so the neighbors won’t complain and then they see the pool is FULL of trash. Steven either falls in the pool or someone pushes him.
Aaron is about to leave and kisses Jessica but she gets smacked in the head with a piece of bologna. Then a food fight breaks out. All the twins friends get ghost without offering to help clean up. Only Todd, Ken, and Amy are left. Some kids they don’t know are hanging around -and are the ones that started the food fight- Jessica sees Rob stealing her CDS. Ken sees it too and he has alibi because Jessica’s names are written on the cover. So, Ken kicks him out and he tells Amy lets go. Amy says she’s taying. He says he’ll call her. Amy says don’t bother. Ken says he has to leave and Amy asks if he’ll walk her home and he says sure.
They all have an emergency conference in the kitchen. Someone walks in. They tell them the party’s over to leave. It’s May she says she was just leaving. They apologize to May and asks for her help but she says they got themselves into it. She uses her whistle to run the remaining “guests” off. They apologize to May again and tell her they just didn’t want a sitter. They were mad at their parents and they took it out on her. May confesses she was too strict. She never watched older children. She just wanted them to be safe but she took it to far. She says she’ll accept their apology if they accept hers. The kids say they won’t let her lift a finger. They’ll clean it all up.
They get it all cleaned up. The only thing left is the broken frame for their father’s diploma. May’s gone for some hours and when she comes back she comes back with the rose. She saw Liz coming out of Valley Antiques and that’s why she questioned her. That morning, she got a call from the owner of that shop. He said that he was at an auction in Big Mesa, and he'd seen what he thought was your antique rose on display. So I went up there, and he told me the whole story. Then I met the man who was selling it. He's a professional antique dealer," May said. "He spends a lot of time at garage sales, looking for items that people don't realize are valuable. So, I asked him a lot of questions, such as, did he buy it from a girl with blond hair on Thursday. The bidding went up to 200.00. May got the owner to give it to her for 50.00. Before the leaves, Jessica gives May the “Offical Honorary Grandmother Certificate”.
Rating: 5 Pretty Cliché. Every plot about a big party that the parents don’t know about always turns out to be a diaster!
The Wakefield’s haven’t even left for Mexico and Jessica already has a party planned in her head. Liz has her suspicions she’s up to something but when she asks her she says nothing.., yet. It’s not long before (on Monday) she’s telling the Unicorns (at their table). It’ll be on Saturday around 7. The guest list -everybody-. Well, everyone that is they want to invite. The next to get an invite is Aaron Dallas.
Before Jessica can tell Liz, she finds out when Aaron, Todd, and Ken ask her what time the party is. Liz doesn’t think they should have a big party without telling their parents, but of course she lets Jessica talk her into it and says they’ll have to be careful. Steven one day tells the twins, he’s having a party on Saturday. Jessica tells him they’re having a party on Saturday. Jessica says they can combine their parties. Steven says ok as long as her friends stay out of his friend’s way. They wonder how they’re going to get the money to pay for the food. The only one that has money is Jessica (who says she’s got five on it).
Liz feels guilty about the party and wants to do something to make it up to her parents. So, she asks them if they want them to do anything special while their gone. Ned says to separate some of the junk in the garage into boxes so he’ll know what to keep and what to throw out. Steven suggests they have a garage sale. It’s the perfect way to solve their money problem. Ned says ok but he was just going to donate the stuff to charity. Steven says they can sell the stuff and give half of the money to charity and then keep the other half.
But days before the trip, their parents drop the bomb on them that a lady named May Brown -whose elderly- will be coming to stay with them. They beg and plead and try to convince their parents they can stay by themselves, but Ned and Alice say their mind is made up. The next morning, Jessica makes Liz promise not to tell anyone the party is off until she thinks of a good excuse. When the Unicorns come up to her, she decides to keep on talking the party up. The ask how long the party will go and she says probably until midnight.
Amy tells Liz she’s invited her new boyfriend Rob to the party. She’s over Ken. All he talks about is football and he just talks to her when he needs help with math. Rob is in the eight grade and Amy meet him at the mall. She says he’s on the soccer team and he’s good at video games and he’s funny. Amy says maybe they can double sometimes (dates). Jessica says she doesn’t see why they still have to have the garage sale. Liz says they promised. They argue back and forth about their new baby-sitter. Liz thinks she’ll be sweet and bake cookies for them like their grandmother. She’s wrong!
When they walk in they see Steven and May glaring at each other. First, she gets on them for being “late”. She won’t let them snack between meals. Then she starts laying down the house rules. 1 Lights out at 9:00 2 Only one hour of tv a day. They even have to go bed at nine on weekends. Those are the main two. The others are about not turning the stereo up and no running in the house. May doesn’t like Steven’s smart mouth or Jessica’s back talk so she sends Jessica to her room. Steven, Liz, and Jessica meet up in Jessica’s room. They decide that maybe if May doesn’t want to stay they get rid of her by the time they hae the party.
May makes the twins eat spinach and broccoli. (At least it’s not cabbage). The only eatable think is chicken catchatori. Steven dumps his out the window. May keeps calling the twins the wrong name. Jessica has put her hair in a pony tail and has on a blue oxford shirt like Liz. The twins try to toss theirs too but May catches them. After dinner she makes them go on a 2 mile walk. Later on that night, May starts shrieking and shows them her wet, purple, hair. None of them fess up so she says she’ll deal with them later.
Jessica says she put the dye from last Halloween into her shampoo bottle. Then Jessica hides her clothes. She looks all over the house and eventually finds them on her bed where she left them. They tell her maybe she should go to bed early. She might be getting senile. May makes them come up in the hallway (blowing a whistle). She says they owe her an apology for bothering her private things. She says she’s not going anywhere until they do. Jessica walks off and she tells Elizabeth to come back. Jessica says she doesn’t know she was talking to her. May says that’s it. Obviously, their parents don’t care that they run wild and they need to be taught some manners. So, she gives them chores. Jessica has to clean up her room and empty all the trash baskets. Liz has to empty the trash baskets in the bathroom and Steven has to dust.
She says they can finish their homework in the morning and they’ll be waking up at 5:30. So, at 3:44 the twins rig the alarm clock to go off. Then they rig the clock radio to go off and put it on a station that plays obnoxious heavy metal. When May goes to check on the twins they’re in the bed pretending to be sleep. The twins wake up early and May mentions the clocks. The twins say it must have been their father who likes to wake up early so he can concentrate on his work. Steven comes down and says he’s going to make some coffee. Only he likes cinnamon in his. He hands May a cup and she drinks it. She runs out of the room to the bathroom eyes watering.
He put garlic powder, a couple of bay leaves, some cayenne pepper, and a few dashes of tabasco sauce in hers. May isn’t amused and when she returns she says they act like monsters. She doesn’t know how their parents epect anyone to watch them. Steven says they can watch themselves and if she wants to she can leave, but she says she’s staying. She was hired to watch them. She sends them off to do their homework and then revokes their phone privileges.
The day of the sale, May says she’s going out to get some groceries and leaves Liz with the instructions to watch the cash box and don’t let anyone walk in the flower bed. She asks if Liz is ready. Garage sales are a lot to organize. Liz says they can handle it. They aren’t kids. May says she’s not sure about that. She says don’t do anything rash while she’s gone. Liz just says she won’t be May says she’s sick of Liz’s attitude. She tells her she’ll be back. Liz says don’t hurry. She goes to get a cookie but May’s left a note no snacks.
Amy brings over Rob. He asks if they’re hard up for money -which puts Liz off to him instantly-. The girl who Liz was talking to before she started talking to them bought a velvet blue hat. Rob says she looked like she was charity. Liz defends her and says she likes when people dress different. The girl had her own style. Rob asks what kind of music they’re gonna play at the party and offers to bring some tapes. He says he has everything except the Emerald Girls-Amy’s favorite group- Amy says she doesn’t like them either. Liz notices how different Amy is acting.
She keeps giggling after everything he says but Liz doesn’t think he’s funny. He’s just an ass. Amy leaves with Rob to watch him play video games. The count so far is thirteen dollars. While Liz and Steven are in the house, Jessica thinks about how to still have her party. A man walks up and says she’s going to have a look around. Jessica is distracted and starts thinking of how she can get May to run out of gas so she won’t be back in time for the party. The man hands her something a (wooden) rose and offers to give her 80.00 for it. (Jessica doesn’t recognize the item from any of the tables).
Liz sees the blanket that was once covering the box of their mother’s antiques -that she didn’t want touched- is on the floor. She looks through the boxes and tells Jessica she just sold their (great-great) grandmother’s rose. Mrs. Wakefield had told Elizabeth all about her great-great-grandmother. Her name was Alice Larson, and she had come to the United States from Sweden when she was sixteen. Elizabeth's mother had been named after her (from the book). Liz says they have to get the rose back. It was the only thing their mother had of their great, great, grandmother and she knows that even tho Jessica is the one that did it, she’ll be the one blamed.
Liz makes Jessica tell her what the guy looked like (old faded jeans, blue stripped sweater, old sneakers, curly brown hair, baseball cap). Liz says she’s going to try and find him-leaving without hearing Jessica’s plan for the party-. Liz decides to call some antique dealers. May is taking a nap.
Everyone is super polite to May dinner. Steven eats a lot of the peas and Jessica says she loves the stuffed peppers. She asks about the garage sale and they tell her it went well. The good mood doesn’t last. Liz isn’t eating and May accuses her of having had snacks. She says she wasn’t and May tells her don’t take that tone with me. The same tone she took when she criticized the broccoli casserole. Liz says that wasn’t even her. It was Jessica. May says don’t blame her sister and finish he peas. Liz slams the fork down and she tells her careful she might break the china. Liz offers to do the dishes. Steven and Jessica offer to help. Then she says they can have their nightly “constitutional”.
Aaron’s still on for the party. Brooke says her mother might come from Paris so she might not be able to make it. Liz tells Amy about the rose, Jessica sold. Amy says that’s too bad and asks are they still on to go out for ice cream. Liz says she wants to spend the day looking at antique shops, but Amy talks her into it and says Rob can’t wait to meet Todd. They talk about the party and again says how much Rob wants to meet Todd. Then Todd shows up and they confirm the places to go to the ice-cream shop. Ken wants to go but Amy says she’s going with someone else. Ken walks off and tells Amy to have a great time. Then Amy walks out of the cafeteria too. Todd asks what’s up with that and Liz says he thinks Ken still likes Amy and amy still likes Ken too. Todd asks what Rob is like and Liz says she’ll let him judge for himself.
Liz goes to Valley Antiques and speaks with Martin Hannaford. She explains what happened. He takes her number and tells her he’ll call her if the rose turns up at his shop. She tells him don’t call before Sunday. Then she goes to meet up with her friends. They ask if she found it. Liz says no. Todd suggests it might turn up at another garage sale and he’ll help her look. Rob clearly has no interest in Liz’s problem and just wants to eat. Rob makes fun on the yogurt Liz orders. Todd tells her not to worry it’ll show up. They make plans to meet at his house. He asks if the party is still on and she says yeah.
May gives Liz a hard time about lying about where she’s been and calls her a spoiled brat. She tells her if she’s going to be this inconsiderate she can go to her room. Steven and Jessica are upstairs on the bed plotting. Liz tells them whatever their doing to get rid of May count her in. By Sunday afternoon, Todd and Liz have gone to several garage sales and still haven’t found the rose. Jessica says maybe someone will see the signs she put up. Or maybe their mom can track it down when she gets back. She’ll be mad but she’ll forgive Liz (them). She says she’ll tell her it was her fault.
Steven comes into the kitchen with muddy shoes. Then he throws them and when she tells him to be careful, he says it’s my house. Then he microwaves some fries. He and May get into an argument and he tells her he’s sick of all her rules and living there. Then he packs his things and leaves, tells May he’s going to get as far away from her as he can and he’s never coming back. After dinner, Steven calls and says he went to a friends but the friend isn’t there. Now he’s at a convenience store and needs May to pick him up. When she tells the girls to stay there and leaves.
Steven takes a cab back home and they get ready for the party. Brooke does come to the party. She says her mother will be there next week and says she has surprises for her. She’s kinda worried about it. Rob continues to act like a jerk and ask if they have pizza and ice cream. Amy admits she doesn’t really like him but she was scared that she’d lose Liz because of Todd. Liz tells her that won’t happen. Amy says now how does she get rid of Rob. Liz says just don’t go out with him again. May calls. She’s still trying to follow Steven’s directions and is two hours from SV. Liz and Jess tell her the noise she hears is the tv. They’re too upset to sleep. Liz admits she feels bad for May but Jess is having too much fun.
The party gets out of control (as we all knew it would). A lot of things happen. People start taking food that’s not set out. They go upstairs. Someone breaks a lamp. A lot of people start arriving that neither of the Wakefields know. Liz and Steven try to get all the people outside inside so the neighbors won’t complain and then they see the pool is FULL of trash. Steven either falls in the pool or someone pushes him.
Aaron is about to leave and kisses Jessica but she gets smacked in the head with a piece of bologna. Then a food fight breaks out. All the twins friends get ghost without offering to help clean up. Only Todd, Ken, and Amy are left. Some kids they don’t know are hanging around -and are the ones that started the food fight- Jessica sees Rob stealing her CDS. Ken sees it too and he has alibi because Jessica’s names are written on the cover. So, Ken kicks him out and he tells Amy lets go. Amy says she’s taying. He says he’ll call her. Amy says don’t bother. Ken says he has to leave and Amy asks if he’ll walk her home and he says sure.
They all have an emergency conference in the kitchen. Someone walks in. They tell them the party’s over to leave. It’s May she says she was just leaving. They apologize to May and asks for her help but she says they got themselves into it. She uses her whistle to run the remaining “guests” off. They apologize to May again and tell her they just didn’t want a sitter. They were mad at their parents and they took it out on her. May confesses she was too strict. She never watched older children. She just wanted them to be safe but she took it to far. She says she’ll accept their apology if they accept hers. The kids say they won’t let her lift a finger. They’ll clean it all up.
They get it all cleaned up. The only thing left is the broken frame for their father’s diploma. May’s gone for some hours and when she comes back she comes back with the rose. She saw Liz coming out of Valley Antiques and that’s why she questioned her. That morning, she got a call from the owner of that shop. He said that he was at an auction in Big Mesa, and he'd seen what he thought was your antique rose on display. So I went up there, and he told me the whole story. Then I met the man who was selling it. He's a professional antique dealer," May said. "He spends a lot of time at garage sales, looking for items that people don't realize are valuable. So, I asked him a lot of questions, such as, did he buy it from a girl with blond hair on Thursday. The bidding went up to 200.00. May got the owner to give it to her for 50.00. Before the leaves, Jessica gives May the “Offical Honorary Grandmother Certificate”.
Rating: 5 Pretty Cliché. Every plot about a big party that the parents don’t know about always turns out to be a diaster!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 8, 2022
I loved re-reading this one!
December 8, 2017
This book is okay, but not my favorite. I don't enjoy reading about people being naughty, so it's only getting a couple stars from me.
In this book, Steven, Elizabeth, and Jessica's parents are going off on a vacation and leaving the kids at home. At first, the three kids think that they're staying home alone and make plans with their friends, but their parents have different ideas. They hire a babysitter and, while Elizabeth thinks it'd be better to cancel the party that they created, Jess wants to keep it going. Unfortunately, they have to get rid of the strict babysitter on the night of the party. A party that turns out a lot different than they thought it would.
In this book, Steven, Elizabeth, and Jessica's parents are going off on a vacation and leaving the kids at home. At first, the three kids think that they're staying home alone and make plans with their friends, but their parents have different ideas. They hire a babysitter and, while Elizabeth thinks it'd be better to cancel the party that they created, Jess wants to keep it going. Unfortunately, they have to get rid of the strict babysitter on the night of the party. A party that turns out a lot different than they thought it would.
August 10, 2009
They throw a huge party!!
June 22, 2013
I remember the cover just not the story
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews