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Learning that her friend and English partner Amelia Freeman has died in a tragic accident during spring break, a devastated Mary Anne is unable to overcome her sorrow and decides to do something special to remember her friend. Ann M. Martin is the creator of The Baby-sitters Club, which has more than 190 million books in print, making it one of the most popular series in the history of publishing. Her novels include A Corner of the Universe (a Newbery Honor Book), Belle Teal, Here Today, A show more Dog's Life, On Christmas Eve, and the Main Street and Family Tree series, as well as the much-loved collaborations P.S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More, with Paula Danziger. Ann lives in upstate New York. show lessTags
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One of my very favorite BSC books. This is a very sad book, Mary Anne's friend dies in a car crash and Mary Anne wants to do something special to remember her. I remember, after reading this book for the first time, being so upset about Amelia's death that I was actually scared to get in a car. That's how much this story affected me.
One of the very popular Baby-Sitters' Club series, this book was written in response to the letters the author had received requesting a story dealing with the death of a classmate, and also drunk driving. This story shows the grief, and the different ways of expressing it, present in a school community following the death of a student. Mary Anne searches for a way to acknowledge and remember her friend Amelia. The story includes Mary Anne's visit to a therapist.
A sensitive enough handling of a hard subject, in true BSC style.
Drunk driving is bad. It takes innocent lives. So don't drink and drive, mmkay. Mary Anne agrees with that message 100 percent because one of her friends was killed by a drunk driver, mmkay.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Mary Anne and the Memory Garden
- Original title
- Mary Anne and the Memory Garden
- Original publication date
- 1996-01
- People/Characters
- Mary Anne Spier; Kristy Thomas; Claudia Kishi; Stacey McGill; Mallory Pike; Jessi Ramsey (show all 8); Abby Stevenson; Amelia Freeman
- Important places
- Stoneybrook, Connecticut, USA
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Kids, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .M3567585 .M — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 183
- Popularity
- 178,521
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.39)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 2
