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Title: Dawn Schafer
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Item Number: 9780785789512
Number: 1
Product Description: Dawn Schafer
Universal Product Code (UPC): 9780785789512
WonderClub Stock Keeping Unit (WSKU): 9780785789512
Rating: 3.5/5 based on 2 Reviews
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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)
Width: 0.000 cm (0.00 inches)
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Depth: 0.000 cm (0.00 inches)
Date Added: August 25, 2020, Added By: Ross
Date Last Edited: August 25, 2020, Edited By: Ross
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Greg Bowlus
reviewed Dawn Schafer on December 17, 2015This is my first time reading this book!
in this FINAL DAWN-NARRATED BOOK (not including chapters in Super Specials, and not including the California Diaries series) by ghostwriter Ellen Miles, the bsc start sitting for a new family and are surprised to discover that they want two separate sitters for the two sets of cousins and don’t want the cousins comingling. the mothers are in town trying to get their recently deceased father, arthur livingston’s business in order, and they don’t get along, so they don’t want their kids to get along either (with each other or their third sister amy who has no kids and lives in the mansion full time). the bsc start to uncover a mystery of mr. livingston’s fortune: he has given each of his three daughters a clue to a treasure, and whichever one solves the mystery and finds the treasure first gets his whole fortune. he’s always fostered competition (read: resentment) among his daughters, and even though he’s dead he’s still haunting them with this obnoxious competition. there’s also something vaguely spooky going on in the mansion. dawn thinks that all of mr. livingston’s portraits’ eyes are following her (yes, the many had many portraits of himself hanging in his own house -- this says everything you need to know about this douchebag). when they go in the attic to try to find the treasure they discover that some sections of it are completely dust-free and have some of mr. livingston’s clothes that appear to have been recently used. they start to believe that mr. livingston is still alive, living in the walls or something (a la the ending of that surprisingly good horror movie about the doll). also their very young butler seems unnaturally involved in the treasure case. the bsc members attempt to make the fighting sisters reconcile and share their clues with one another. turns out that mr. livingston isn’t alive but that the butler is actually patrick (who HAS been peering through the eyes of the portraits to try to find info about the treasure), the livingston sisters’ little brother who mr. livingston was so disapproving of that HE TOLD HIS DAUGHTERS THAT THEIR BROTHER WAS DEAD. he had really just run away. what a true scumbag mr. livingston was, right? anyway, the sisters and brother band together and solve the mystery (see lowlights/nitpicks for more, slash see the clues below) and decide to split the fortune evenly and keep the mansion so they can take family vacations there together because they all love each other now. and in a totally nonsensical and infuriating subplot, dawn keeps overbooking herself. all of her sms friends that are not in the bsc (see nitpicks for the likelihood that dawn even has these friends in the first place), plus all the bsc kids, plus her actual family all want to hang out with her all the time. eventually she has a friends day: a party with the bsc kids in the morning, then a party with the sms kids in the afternoon, then a bsc sleepover, as well as a family day devoted to hanging with her mom, richard, and mary anne. and then she goes back to california to kick off the wonderful california diaries spinoff, with her first book, Dawn: Diary 1!
highlights:
-a reference to mallory having chestnut hair! we haven't gotten a reference to her hair being any color other than red in SO LONG.
-the fake butler’s name is John Irving
-dawn notices a really ugly painting of mr. livingston and narrates it as looking like a cross between george washington, whistler's mother, and the elephant man.
-man, I’m just so glad that arthur livingston is dead. what a true jerk to end all jerks.
-dawn has a twin peaks dream where one of the portraits of mr. livingston winks at her and talks to her and then she wakes up knowing the answer: look for the FIRST portrait of him which was painted by his wife (the signature) and the code is on the back. I guess twin peaks dream parodies were the style of the time:
lowlights/nitpicks:
-the subplot where everyone wants to hang out with dawn. emily bernstein calls to make plans while erica blumberg stops by to try to hang out with her. do these people really like dawn so much that they need to hang out with her? they’re really just school chums that she never saw outside of school, so what’s the deal?
-the butler is described as being a cute older guy with a beard. how old is older? if he's old enough to have a beard then is he really young enough that it would make sense that dawn would describe him as cute? if he's an adult I'd think they'd call him handsome or something.
-ANOTHER POGS REFERENCE. the kids are playing pogs. why does every kid in this universe still play pogs in 1996?
-the clues are really obvious (see below). I knew all along and am surprised it took them so long to figure it out. I solved it from two clues.
-dawn narrates that at the pool they play marco polo, "which is sort of a wet version of blindman's bluff." who in the world knows what blindman's bluff is but doesn't know what marco polo is?
-they find a check with the signature “a. livingston†and are shocked because he's been dead since before the check was written BUT HE HAS A DAUGHTER NAMED AMY. and turns out that it was her check. because occam's razor, you silly kids.
-how rich was mr. livingston? they describe the mansion as basically being the white house. I’d guess that he has a fortune beyond just the mansion, but how is it that four kids and their families are able to split that money and have enough that they feel like it’s appropriate to keep/not sell the mansion, which is obviously the biggest asset in mr. livingston’s estate. unless he had a bunch of original renaissance paintings or something that they could sell and make a ton of money, I just don’t buy that they would keep the mansion.
-dawn and her mom go to a nearby restaurant called tofu express. really, that exists? I’d believe veggie express, but TOFU EXPRESS?
the clues:
-I didn't do it, I was --- (answer: framed, indicates the frame of a painting)
-the signature tells all (answer: the first painting was painted by mr. livingston’s wife)
-the first is always the most important (answer: the “treasure†is on mr. livingston’s earliest portrait)
claudia outfit:
-"...The outfit she was wearing that day: a bright yellow pair of overall shorts over a tie-dyed baby-T in all the colors of the rainbow. She wore purple jellies, and her toenails, which showed through the plastic, were painted scarlet. A green scrunchie, holding her hair into a cool-looking Pebbles 'do, topped off the look."
stacey outfit:
-"Stacey was wearing a pair of tailored khaki shorts, brown moccasins--no socks--and a simple, classic white shirt."
snacks in claudia’s room:
-dots beneath her pillow
-tootsie pops under her bed
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