This book made me have nightmares for weeks!! The suspense killed me, literally! I stayed up until 10:30pm reading this book. Then I couldn't get to sleep! Read this book if you want the scariest, grossiest adventure you've ever had.....

This book is about Christie having problems with her science teacher, Miss Finney, at her new school in London. Christie's always made fabulous grades, especially in science, and suddenly she's gettting D's and C's. The problem is, Christie KNOWS she's doing all her assignments right, Miss Finney is purposely NOT being fair. Christie doesn't know what to do, until she hears about the school's annual science fair and decides that by winning it, she can prove herself to Miss Finney.

This book was sort of boring to me, but I still liked it. Sideplots are: Christie trying to figure out what to do about Chase and Connie- she likes them both, but is it realistic to not date Connie here in England because she likes Chase still, even though she might never see Chase again? AND Jana is writing to Christie asking for advice on whether she should break up with boyfriend, Randy, who she's been dating for a year or so.

I love Mr Batrachian!!!!!!!!!!! He's very handsome!!!!

I LOVED this book. I don't care what some people say, it's great. Okay, Jana decides that she and Randy should break up for a while and date other people to see if they are REALLY right for each other, since neither of them have ever dated other people. Randy doesn't want to, but he agrees, and the experiment begins. After a bad date with Parker Donovan, Jana begins to wish she'd never broke up with Randy, especially when she hears Sara Sawyer has a mad crush on him and is going to ask him out. Can things get worse? Definitely. Beth is also having problems with Keith and then he asks Jana to tell Beth he wants to break up with her! That's bad enough, but then he tells Jana his reason- he has a crush on Jana and wants to date her! How can Jana tell her best friend something like that? Things get even farther out of hand and Jana knows she's going to have to do something FAST, before she loses her reputation and ALL her friends. You HAVE to read this book! It's one of the best in series! And will Jana and Randy get back together, I'm not going to tell! =)

I love this series, and this was one of my favorites. Yes, it was kinda lame that Keith had to step in to save Jana at the read-a-thon, but I thought that the part where Randy stood up for Jana was cool. he wasn't 'saving her', he was showing he cared. This book is where Jana and Randy break up for awhile and instead of everything going smoothly like Jana hoped, everything goes wrong! Jana ends up in the middle of a huge mess, and could possible loose all her friends! Definitely read this!!

I LOVED this book! The Fabulous Five series is the coolest, I too am hooked! I wish the library would get more books in the series, or that they would go back in print! I think Jana and Randy are the neatest couple, and I don't think they should ever have split up! Not that I think it is realistic they will be together till college, but still.... I think it was really cool how Randy stood up for Jana in the end. This was a book I read over and over.

In a way, the book reminded me of Judy Blume's book "Blubber." I thought it was so cruel of Jana & her friends to form an "Against Taffy Sinclair" club. Sure Taffy tended to be self-important and snobby, but that doesn't give Jana the right to gang up on her. I can imagine how painful that is for a kid when a clique forms a "club for the purpose of ganging up on her. The BSC would have been horrified at this "club." In the book, the club gets together to badmouth Taffy and write awful things about her in their notebooks. Poor Taffy! I was SO glad when Taffy's mother got hold of Jana's notebook in the end and came over to Jana's place and let Jana really have it! Maybe Ms. Sinclair should have made good on her threat to take it to the principal.

Yeah, I can see the mean part in ganging up on someone you're jealous of, but it's not abnormal. There are always enemies in schools, and I don't like how people try to compare the Fab Five with BSC. The BSC girls are NOT perfect on they are immature in their own ways too. Anyway, the book is basically about TEN YEAR OLD Jana starting a club against totally snotty and beautiful Taffy Sinclair. Jana and her friends write down all the snotty things Taffy do, and then it gets into the wrong hands and Jana gets in trouble. No, Taffy and Jana do not solve their differences and still wage war in the 6th grade. But they do make up in the 7th grade! (read Yearbook Memories) I don't think jana is a mean person, though. Maybe you'll think Taffy is misunderstood after reading this book and feel all sorry for her- well, she's no angel.

This book was GREAT!! I think it's the best on in the Taffy series- it's sooo funny!!! Mrs. Haynes has a terrific sense of humor and there were numerous places in this book where I just burst out laughing! She really captures a 5th grade girl well. Yup, not right to gang up on someone just because you don't like them, but Jana did know what she did was wrong and EVEN IN THE BOOK she thought about what a horrible person she was and resolved to change for the better. (she and Taffy still get into tiffs in the future though) I don't think Jana comes off mean at all in this book- I feel sorry for her. She's just a little kid without a dad (a very normal problem today)- the parts about her dad and how she feels about him are so-- touching. :*) I think it's stupid Jana and her friends worried about how undeveloped they were compared to Taffy, though- come on! They were only 10 years old. This book makes you hate Taffy's mom- she's a witch! Poor Taffy! No wonder she's the way she is. Kind of weird how NONE of the boys (save Clarence) in her class are mentioned in this book, when they play such a big part in the rest of the Taffy series. Anyway, this book had a lot of embarrassing moments in it for Jana, but it's was VERY well written, VERY realistic, VERY funny, and had a VERY good message. You're crazy if you don't want to read it!!!

Foolish...they have the opportunity to explore things and maybe have an real adventure, but instead their adventure is meeting this "gorgeous" singer and of course, falling in love with him. And Marco, being conceited, strings the five of them along during the whole vacation. Naturally, they have boyfriends back home. The one good part was when they finally wise up and cook up a delicious plan to get back at Marco.

Of all the super edition books, this was probably my least favorite. There just wasn't a whole lot of action. Anyway, when Melanie's dad wins a trip to the Barbados (from being the best salesman at his job) he and his family are thrilled! Then Mel manages to get all the Fab Five to come and they set out Christmas Day to spend a whole week of fun in the sun! All the girls have boyfriends back home and they certainly don't plan on meeting guys, but things change when they get a load of Marco Montavo, the charming, handsome singer at the villa they are staying out. (he's a jerk!) He's bored on the island where 'nothing exciting happens', so he decides to have some fun by getting all the girls interested in him. His flirting charms work and soon all the girls have a crush on him (even Katie!) But they figure things out in the end and get revenge! I really did like this book, it's just that they spent all their time running around secretly meeting Marco. I'm glad they wised up and realized what great guys they have back home. =)

I don't know what was the problem of the guy below, but this book was another great installment in the Fabulous Five series. I read it and loved it as a kid. Probably wouldn't like it if you're a 40 year-old reviewer!

I like all the Fab. Five books, so I am not going to give any of them low ratings, but this one was a tad weird. All the kids at Wakemen are upset when a bunch of 9th grade bullies trash their school and then 'our generation' is blamed for it. So the Fab. Five want to show that not all kids are bad, so they decide to raise money for repairs by writing to celebrities and asking for donation that they can auction off. Also, Beth is having problems with her boyfriend, but I don't care a whop because Keith is a jerk anyway. If you love this series like me and haven't yet read this book, don't fret. You're not missing much. FROM A LOYAL READER

When Wacko is vandalized by some troublemakers, Beth Barry and her friends are furious that ALL the kids are getting the blame and being dubbed 'the bad generation'. But when Beth comes up with an idea to raise money to repair damages, she can't get kids interested in helping. Can Beth convince them that they CAN convince adults that not all teenagers are irresponsible and dangerous? Meanwhile, she's having trouble with her b/f, Keith Masterson (JERK!), and is worried if he's not interested in her anymore. This book is kind of a filler in the series, I think. it's still good, and you should read it, but it's not a life and death matter if you don't. =)

I thought the book was somewhat boring. You feel as if you have to get it if you're collecting them. Christy has never been one of my favorite characters, but it is important to know the story about her moving to England. It wasn't as 'I can't put down this book', like the other ones. If you do decide to get this one, I hope you enjoy it. Have a good day!

Christie Winchell can't believe it- just when she gets accepted into the PEAK program at school AND the new, hot guy at school likes her, she finds out her dad is getting transferred to England for a year or so! Christie can't imagine life without Wacko, Bridgeport, and especially her Fab Five friends! Now what? Will the Fab Five remain close even when thousands of miles apart?

I liked this book a lot- I think it was my favorite book about Christie in the series. She's not my favorite character in the series, she always seems kind of gloomy to me, but still- it was a good book, and an important one in the series.

A bit trite. Many of the girls in this series are a bit superficial and obsessed with popularity, looks, and boyfriends. The boys...YEEEEECH! They are incredible show-offs! The worst part is when Christie and Jana were walking down the hall and a linup of ninth-grade boys commented on them. Did the girls fight back? Tell them that this is sexual harrassment? NOOO! They cringed and meekly slunk to their homeroom. Of course Fabulous Five and their friends at Wakeman wind up spending EVERY SINGLE weekend at Bumper's. And to make matters worse, each of the girls are almost immediately paired off with boyfriends who adore them and TAKE them out to movies and Bumpers EVERY weekend. The girls from the Baby-sitters' club series would get bored to tears with that. I think the girls from the Baby-sitters' club are a lot more mature, responsible, intelligent and REAL than the Fabulous Five characters. The only ones from the Fabulous Five series with an ounce of intelligence are Christie, Katie, and maybe Mona Vaughn.

I just read this book not to long ago, (after practically reading the rest of the series), and don't know how I managed! If you love the Fab Five series, you should definitely read this first. It really introduces the Fab Five, Wacko, teachers, and hangouts. The story was really good too- a lot of things happening at once. (Jana worried her new friend, Funny is really spying on her; worried she'll lose her Fab Five friends for being friends with Funny, a member of the rival clique; worried that Randy won't be her boyfriend; worried about Beth and what's going on to make her so distant and cold) You definitely should try to read it if you haven't! Don't listen to the other reviews- this series isn't as stereotypical as some people say it is. They do have a lot on popularity and looks and stuff, but the messages are still good. And yeah, some of the boys are jerks, but most of them aren't! (like Scott, Shane, Randy, Jon, Tony...) And they AREN'T immediately paired up with guys. Three are because they have the same b/fs they had in gradeschool.

this book is really good. you should buy it. it is worth it.

it is a cool,funny, and intering