Get Well Soon, Mallory! is the 69th book in The Baby-Sitters Club series.
Back Cover Summary[]
Mallory hasn't been feeling well for awhile now. And finally she discovers why she's been so tired and run-down. Mallory has mono.
Having mono means staying in bed and resting — for a long time. No school, no activities, no baby-sitting, and no Baby-sitters Club.
Mallory is crushed. So are the Baby-sitters. It's bad enough that Dawn is away in California. But now it looks like Mallory's out of the club, too....
Summary[]
Subplot[]
The BSC and some of the clients put together a Thanksgiving festival for the residents at Stoneybrook Manor including: Charlotte Johanssen, the Pike kids, Barrett kids, Karen and David Michael, Bill and Melody, Arnold Twins, and Becca Ramsey.
Characters[]
Mallory's Family
- John Pike
- Dee Pike
- Mallory Pike
- Pike Triplets:Jordan, Adam, Byron
- Vanessa Pike
- Nicky Pike
- Margo Pike
- Claire Pike
BSC Members
- Kristy Thomas
- Mary Anne Spier
- Claudia Kishi
- Mallory Pike
- Jessi Ramsey
- Dawn Schafer
- Shannon Kilbourne
Kids
- Charlotte Johanssen
- Becca Ramsey
- Buddy, Marnie, and Suzi Barrett
- Arnold Twins
- Melody and Bill Korman
- Karen Brewer
- David Michael Thomas
- Liza (mentioned)
Pre-teens
- Ben Hobart (mentioned)
Teenagers
- Charlie Thomas (mentioned)
Adults
- Dr. Dellenkamp
- Dr. Johanssen (mentioned)
- Janice Ramsey (mentioned)
- Uncle Joe, Esther Barnard, Mrs. Carver, Mrs. Lyman, Mary Wright, Mr. Renquist, Mrs. Brooks, Herman Schwartz, Mr. Hamilton, Bart Bartlesby - Stoneybrook Manor residents
- Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer (mentioned)
- Rioko Kishi (mentioned)
- Mrs. Fellows - Stoneybrook Manor director
Locations[]
- Pike House
- Kishi House
- Stoneybrook Manor
- Cost Club
- New York City (mentioned)
- Polly's Fine Candy (mentioned)
- Doctors office
- Spier/Schafer Barn
Pop Culture and Real-Life References[]
- Aladdin
- The Macy's Parade
- Geritol (vitamin brand)
- M*A*S*H
- Black Stallion
- National Velvet
- The Wind in the Willows
- Charlotte's Web
- The Velveteen Rabbit
- Popeye
- Clifford the Big Red Dog
Continuity and Inconsistencies[]
Continuity
- Stacey and Mallory remember Mr. Hennessy from Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook.
- Mallory remembers Uncle Joe and when he stays with the Pikes from Mallory and the Ghost Cat.
- Mallory remembers Wendy from Jessi and the Bad Baby-sitter.
Inconsistencies
- Charlotte participates in a school play, even though she gets stage fright. Since it’s a school thing, it’s possible that she didn’t have a choice.
- Mrs. Pike packs school lunches; in Hello, Mallory, she said she made the kids buy the hot lunch (or they could pack their own) because she has better things to do than pack eight school lunches. In that book, Claire ate lunch at school, but in this book she's only going to half-day kindergarten.
Ann M. Martin's Dear Reader Letter[]
Dear Reader,
In Get Well Soon, Mallory!, Mallory comes down with mono and has to leave the club until she’s better. As a child I was very healthy, and I rarely missed school. However, early in June at the end of sixth grade, I had an accident. I fell out of a tree fort in my back yard and landed on a stump, rupturing my spleen. (For those of you who read the Baby-sitters Little Sister books, you will recognize this story in #81, Karen’s Accident.) When this happened, I was playing in our woods with my best friend, Beth, and our neighbor Jessi. Jessi was trying out our new archery set, and when I fell out of the tree, she thought she had shot me! She hadn’t, of course. But that night I had surgery to remove my spleen, and I stayed in the hospital for a week. Being in the hospital wasn’t all bad, though. For one thing, the hospital was just down the street from my school. One day at lunchtime, my teacher brought several of my classmates to visit. They weren’t allowed in the hospital, but they stood outside and we visited through the window. After a week I was allowed to leave the hospital, and then I stayed in bed for another week. I missed the rest of school that year.
After reading this book, you might think that I had mono when I was a kid. I did have mono, but not until I was forty — years after I wrote this book. Usually I write a story about something that has already happened to me. This time, something happened to me after I had written about it in a book. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen too often.
Trivia[]
- Watson is a member of Cost-Club.
- Marie and Phil Strauss are the Pike's cousins in NY.
- Logan missed football practice and Claudia skipped an art class for an emergency meeting of the BSC.
- Stacey and her parents used to go to the Macy's Day Parade every year.
- Mallory misses BSC meetings because she was sick.
- Claire likes the name Tiffany.
- Cost-Club agreed to be a sponsor by giving the BSC an extra five percent discount.
- Vanessa mentions her grandmother likes mysteries.
- Kristy likes playing with Play-Doh and Legos, and so does her grandmother
- Mrs. Pike goes to the beauty salon for special occasions.
- Margo, Vanessa, Claire, and Nicky ended up going to New York with Mrs. Pike.
- Mallory is officially an honorary member of the BSC until she recovers from mono.
- This book's working title was "Mallory and the Cooties".
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