![]() Yet this is a serious topic, and she doesn’t shy away from getting her main character in trouble. ![]() Martin goes into incredible detail showing not only the experience of living with Type 1 diabetes, but also what it is like to be a child of divorce caught between two parents, and she intersperses medical explanations of how diabetes works with casual funny asides from Stacey that keep the tone from getting too dreary. During their first visit, I went from laughing at Kristy mocking the uncomfortable chairs in Stacey’s hospital room to tearing up when the girls were rushed out of the room by doctors and nurses sweeping in to tend to Stacey.Īnn M. Martin’s prose for Stacey’s Emergency was an emotional reading experience! I had a few of those laugh and cry moments, such as when Claudia, and the rest of the BSC took the train up to visit Stacey in the hospital (two days in a row). ![]() It might be time for me to reread the entire Baby-Sitters Club series! You know how with time and distance you forget how great a book or author is? Well, I tore into Raina Telgemeier’s BSC graphic novels as soon as they were each published several years ago (and I adore them), but going back to Ann M. ![]() ![]() To study up for this post recognizing American Diabetes Month, I reread The Truth About Stacey and Stacey’s Emergency, and I realized something. ![]()
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