Graduation Day (The Baby-Sitters Club Friends Forever: Special #2) by Ann M. Martin

Author:Ann M. Martin
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Social Themes, Juvenile Fiction, Friendship, Family, General
ISBN: 9781338093827
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-09-27T11:24:13.058000+00:00

By Anastasia Elizabeth McGill

Hello to all you people of the future. My name is Stacey McGill, and I moved to Stoneybrook when I was twelve years old. Until then I had lived in New York City. I love Stoneybrook. In fact, when my parents got divorced, I was given the choice of living with my dad in New York or with my mom here. I chose here. It was a really difficult decision, of course, since I love both of my parents, and since I had grown up in NYC. But the truth is, I’d already felt that Stoneybrook was my home. Why? The piece of paper I have attached to this one should help explain.

Take a look at the heading on the paper:

STARS OF TOMORROW

Talent Show

I don’t know if anyone opening this time capsule will remember that show, but I sure do. It took place in the Pikes’ backyard, and half the neighborhood was in the show. (The rest of the neighborhood turned out to watch it.) As you can see from the list of acts that Vanessa announced to the audience, Sean Addison played his tuba, Buddy Barrett showed off Pow the basset hound’s tricks, and Nicky Pike performed on stilts to “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Those were just some of the acts. I remember that the Pike triplets built a stage for the event and sold tickets to the show at the entrance to their yard. It was quite a day.

Why have I included this in the time capsule? Because it is just so … Stoneybrook. Things like this go on in our neighborhood all the time. Maybe that doesn’t mean much to most people, but it does to me. When I was growing up, I lived in a high-rise apartment building. I had a few friends in the building, of course, and I knew some of the people who lived and worked on our block. I guess the block was my neighborhood. But nothing like the talent show ever happened there.

This neighborhood, our community here in Stoneybrook, is very special, at least to me. The people here have become some of my closest friends, and I know that when I’m grown up I’ll find happy memories when I look back on this time. I hope that seven years from now Stoneybrook won’t have changed much, and that the kids who open the time capsule will be creating their own happy memories.

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