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Sleepover Friends #4
Patti's New Look
Patti’s always been quiet and shy. But then one night the Sleepover Friends take a personality quiz . . . and it says Patti’s too boring. The girls tell her it’s only a dumb test. But Patti believes it, and she decides it’s time for a new Patti.
First she goes out and buys some crazy clothes. Then she becomes friends with Karen, who’s completely boy-crazy. And suddenly everything is “awesome” and “intense”! If Patti keeps changing, she may start thinking that sleepovers are for babies. Have the girls lost their sleepover friend forever?
First she goes out and buys some crazy clothes. Then she becomes friends with Karen, who’s completely boy-crazy. And suddenly everything is “awesome” and “intense”! If Patti keeps changing, she may start thinking that sleepovers are for babies. Have the girls lost their sleepover friend forever?
75 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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May 15, 2022
A cute Sleepover Friends. Has a fun cover, except EVERYONE NEEDS TO STOP BEING SO JUDGY ABOUT PATTI TRYING ON DIFFERENT CLOTHES. Don't listen to them Patti. You look awesome.
The friends take a magazine quiz (memories!) during a sleepover and Patti's results claim she's boring and needs to take more risks. This lines up perfectly with a family friend's daughter coming to stay with them. Karen, who is described as meek and book smart, shows up dressing totally wild and looking beautiful. Patti uses this chance to explore her personality, which is *great* but is sort of shown as Patti not being herself. She tries The Secret Weapon at Charlie's Soda Shop (and gets sick,) does her hair differently, and buys some new clothes. Exploring what you like is such an important part of growing up.
In the end, the girls find out that Karen actually still is pretty mild and shy but stole all her older sister's clothes, and Patti realizes she likes being herself more.
Sleepover snacks: sushi (which Karen orders and the girls are freaked out about,) pizza with everything on it, peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies, caramel popcorn
The friends take a magazine quiz (memories!) during a sleepover and Patti's results claim she's boring and needs to take more risks. This lines up perfectly with a family friend's daughter coming to stay with them. Karen, who is described as meek and book smart, shows up dressing totally wild and looking beautiful. Patti uses this chance to explore her personality, which is *great* but is sort of shown as Patti not being herself. She tries The Secret Weapon at Charlie's Soda Shop (and gets sick,) does her hair differently, and buys some new clothes. Exploring what you like is such an important part of growing up.
In the end, the girls find out that Karen actually still is pretty mild and shy but stole all her older sister's clothes, and Patti realizes she likes being herself more.
Sleepover snacks: sushi (which Karen orders and the girls are freaked out about,) pizza with everything on it, peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies, caramel popcorn
June 5, 2025
This one was hard to read. They immaturity was cringe. But basically it all begins when the girls take a quiz from a magazine like we did before BuzzFeed was a thing. Patti is told she's boring, she freaks out and wants to be more exciting. She buys a very 80's outfit, orders a milkshake that makes anyone who drinks it sick, including her, why they are allowed to sell such a thing is beyond me, but in the 80's and early 90's I don't think anyone cared as much. Seriously how did we all survive into adulthood given the crap we did. We didn't even always use seatbelts until we moved to the city. Anyway to add to Patti's deep insecurities (as a shy boring kid and now adult I feel ya kid) her glamorous cousin Karen comes to visit from California. Of course her name is Karen. Anyway Karen has the boys chasing after her because teen boys really do only have one thing on their minds. She fascinates and ticks off a few people at a huge sleepover/skating party a friend is having. Do kids still do sleepovers? We used to do it all the time as kids. If they do I'm glad I don't have kids. I'm sure we were extremely annoying to have around. She cleans our Patti's room removing her books and stuffed animals, seriously grow a back bone girl. No one is touching my books ever. But Kate is hella suspicious and soon uncovers the truth that Karen is really just Patti putting on a show pretending to be her sister and everyone is best friends by the end if the book. A bit much at times it got a bit better as you got more into it, still not one of my favourites and since I remember nothing about it from when I was a kid it's safe to say it wasn't my favourite then either.
September 10, 2022
I remember rubber mini-skirts making an appearance in
Kate the Boss
and I have the hardest time picturing them. Are they pleather? Whatever they are, they are all the rage with the cool girls in Riverhurst. (And this is how I know I will never be a cool girl lol.)
March 7, 2019
Patti's New Look
Plot: After a magazine quiz taken at a sleepover, (typical personality quiz) Patti gets upset because (basically) it says she’s boring. (WELLL,) So she starts to try new things (a risky drink at a soda shop that she pays the price for) and buy new clothes (a pink polka dot sweater, a green mini-skirt, and stripped leggings). She get’s a chance to try out her new look because a classmate (Jane) is having a sleepover and a ice-skating rink party. But she’s upstaged by the daughter of one of her parent’s friends who got roped into staying with Patti’s family instead of going with her own to help her sister pick out a college. Typical, she use to be a geek. Now she’s hot, and all the Riverhurst boys want her. But Kate figures out it’s all a act at the slumber party when some of the things she say start sounding just a little bit familiar. Turns out she’s *borrowing* all the places, things, and celebs she’s (seen and know) from the same Teen Magazine the Sleepover Friend’s took the quiz from. She further gets COLD BUSTED when her sister wants her clothes back. Karen confesses she just wanted to try walking in someone else’s shoes for a change and Patti decides to just be herself.
My Thoughts: Hmm! Well Patti isn’t *the* most interesting of characters. She is kind of bland and vanilla. (Not that there’s anything WRONG with vanilla). I can’t say much for the outfit she choose. Even for the 90’s with all its bright colors and patterns, a pink polka dot top and stripped leggings with a flared green skirt (and we can see a picture of this on the cover, minus the leggings) it’s just not a good look for her (OR ANYBODY), If you can make this work I applaud you! But I actually don’t see anything wrong with trying new foods (or drinks) or experimenting from time to time with your look. IF ITS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO! Notice I said that in caps, because you should NEVER change your look because of what someone says or suggests. And I think Patti was guilty of being to sensitive of what a PUBLICATION told her. Not her friends. A TEEN MAGAZINE. But you can see how much pressure and influence things like (magazines, and videos, and tv shows, and celebrities) put on teenage (well pre-teen girls) here. There were two examples of girls in this book (Patti and Karen) who felt like they needed to change because of what society (the magazine) says they should be. As Patti found out it’s all about being comfortable in your own skin. BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE! I’ve had people in my life strongly suggest that I should try things that I have NO interest in just so I can be a little bit more what they wanted me to be. But on the flip side, I liked how Patti was bold enough to try some things even though (my opinion) neither really worked for her.
RATING 7 GREAT LESSONS!
Plot: After a magazine quiz taken at a sleepover, (typical personality quiz) Patti gets upset because (basically) it says she’s boring. (WELLL,) So she starts to try new things (a risky drink at a soda shop that she pays the price for) and buy new clothes (a pink polka dot sweater, a green mini-skirt, and stripped leggings). She get’s a chance to try out her new look because a classmate (Jane) is having a sleepover and a ice-skating rink party. But she’s upstaged by the daughter of one of her parent’s friends who got roped into staying with Patti’s family instead of going with her own to help her sister pick out a college. Typical, she use to be a geek. Now she’s hot, and all the Riverhurst boys want her. But Kate figures out it’s all a act at the slumber party when some of the things she say start sounding just a little bit familiar. Turns out she’s *borrowing* all the places, things, and celebs she’s (seen and know) from the same Teen Magazine the Sleepover Friend’s took the quiz from. She further gets COLD BUSTED when her sister wants her clothes back. Karen confesses she just wanted to try walking in someone else’s shoes for a change and Patti decides to just be herself.
My Thoughts: Hmm! Well Patti isn’t *the* most interesting of characters. She is kind of bland and vanilla. (Not that there’s anything WRONG with vanilla). I can’t say much for the outfit she choose. Even for the 90’s with all its bright colors and patterns, a pink polka dot top and stripped leggings with a flared green skirt (and we can see a picture of this on the cover, minus the leggings) it’s just not a good look for her (OR ANYBODY), If you can make this work I applaud you! But I actually don’t see anything wrong with trying new foods (or drinks) or experimenting from time to time with your look. IF ITS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO! Notice I said that in caps, because you should NEVER change your look because of what someone says or suggests. And I think Patti was guilty of being to sensitive of what a PUBLICATION told her. Not her friends. A TEEN MAGAZINE. But you can see how much pressure and influence things like (magazines, and videos, and tv shows, and celebrities) put on teenage (well pre-teen girls) here. There were two examples of girls in this book (Patti and Karen) who felt like they needed to change because of what society (the magazine) says they should be. As Patti found out it’s all about being comfortable in your own skin. BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE! I’ve had people in my life strongly suggest that I should try things that I have NO interest in just so I can be a little bit more what they wanted me to be. But on the flip side, I liked how Patti was bold enough to try some things even though (my opinion) neither really worked for her.
RATING 7 GREAT LESSONS!
August 27, 2018
A pretty typical "just be yourself, don't force yourself to change in ways you don't actually like" story, which would have been fine, except sometimes Patti did seem to be having fun (at least, from Lauren's narration, she seemed rather happy or in awe of her own choices), and even so her friends weren't terribly supportive of her, with various "that's so not you" comments. Said comments ratchet up a notch when Patti starts idolizing a hip friend, though they're largely spoken because Hip Friend seems to be attracting all the boys the girls have crushes on. Oh, petty jealousy.
Obviously, these girls are all still eleven, far from being bastions of maturity and rationality, but the shallow girl friendship aspects are a little uncomfortable to sit through as an adult.
Obviously, these girls are all still eleven, far from being bastions of maturity and rationality, but the shallow girl friendship aspects are a little uncomfortable to sit through as an adult.
January 25, 2019
3.5 stars
September 18, 2022
This is one of my favorite sleepover friends books. I love the descriptions of outfits, and the descriptions of the food at the sleepovers, of course. This one even had a really big group sleepover at a classmates house, after a ice skating rink adventure.
I also loved small things like hearing about the girls’ regular orders at Charlie’s, the soda shop, and the nasty challenge drink Patti opted to try.
I also loved small things like hearing about the girls’ regular orders at Charlie’s, the soda shop, and the nasty challenge drink Patti opted to try.
January 5, 2025
There are certain books from my childhood that I love so much I can still remember whole words, phrases and even paragraphs from, and this is one of those books. I bought it on Etsy so I could have my own copy and be able to pull it out whenever I want to take a trip down memory lane.
November 7, 2008
I read all the Sleepover Friends books but this one was my favorite -- I wonder if I still have my copy?
May 15, 2017
The usual; girl gets a makeover because of a new bestie , she becomes ALL THAT.... but is it reaaallllly worth losing her buddies, and is her new friends really what she seems?????
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