Mary Anne's Makeover

When Mary Anne sees a picture of a haircut, she goes to the parlor to cut her hair. But the BSC don't pay much attention to it. Mary Anne thinks the BSC will be surprised with her new look. But what a mistake. Somethingf went wrong!

when mary anne sees a haircut she likes in a magazine, her friends laugh and can't picture her in it, but after some thinking, mary anne decides she wants to go for it and do things to empower her and her self esteem. Her dad also likes the idea and offers her to take her for her haircut, but she tells him to keep it a secret from Dawn and Sharon, and she wanted to surprise her friends and logan. After the haircut, Mary Anne got a makeover and bought some new makeup as well as sophisticated, beautiful clothes from a fancy boutique. Actually the mall trip was written the best, you can picture everything. But then Dawn is jealous of her because she's getting all the attention from her parents, and she also went and told logan and the club about her change. Logan loved it, but the Baby Sitters Club didn't like it and I thought they were acting a bit snobby about it. I thought Claudia and Stacey would like it, but they were jealous too, I don't think Mallory and Jessi thought anything, and I think Kristy may have felt that Mary Anne was different looking from her now. Mary Anne was still the same Mary Anne though and she handled all this pressure with dignity, even with the rumors being spread about her going to the dance with a high school guy. Near the end, Dawn was being really mean to Mary Anne calling her new look boy haircut and clown makeup and mary anne was so upset, when Dawn apologized, it turned out that she was jealous Mary Anne spent time with her father and Dawn didn't get an invitation to help her pick out clothes and things like that. Dawn is really really insecure, it's a good thing she went back to California being daddy's girl. After that the other club members were okay too and they all ended up going to the dance. Good read.

I enjoyed this book a lot. It was so exciting reading about her trip to the mall when she got a new haircut, clothes and makeup. I expected her friends to love the change, but they didn't, not at first. But like every ann m martin story, it has a happy ending and they end up liking her new look.

I loved this book. It incoraged me to change. This book was the best. Ignor everyone else. They don't know what they are talking about! READ IT!

Sensitive Mary Anne's friends are wonderful, but sometimes didn't treat her as a mature thirteen-year-old. So I can see why she's upset and hurt when she tells them about the magazine picture and her friends laugh at her. When she finally does get the haircut (which is SO cute!), her friends fear that the inside of her has changed as well and worry that they've lost dear, sweet, sensitive Mary Anne, especially when Cokie tries to butter her up. To make matters worse, Logan gets jealous and acts like a jerk and makes her cry! I was glad when Mary Anne finally sat Dawn down and talked to her, then her friends and her friends saw that even though she changed her hairstyle, she HADN'T changed who she was on the inside after all and was still the same loveable, soft-hearted, caring, organized, crier of a Mary Anne!