Jeff Schafer |
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Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Schafer |
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Jeff |
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Palo City, California |
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10 |
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Jack Schafer (father) |
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5th |
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Jeffrey "Jeff" Schafer is Dawn's ten-year-old younger brother, the son of Jack Schafer and Sharon Spier, and stepson of Carol Olson and Richard Spier. Jeff is part of the Schafer Family and the Spier/Schafer Family.
Appearance & Personality[]
Appearance
Jeff has spiky sun-bleached hair in Dawn's Family Feud. He is skinny and a bit messy, since he has jelly on his elbow at breakfast in Dawn and The We ♥️ Kids Club. He and Dawn look very much alike.
Personality
He is able to stay calm in rough situations and is easy going, such as in Baby-sitters' Island Adventure, where they get lost on an island. He's pretty relaxed about things like Dawn and his mother; he has an active imagine as described in Dawn's Family Feud. Jeff is described as fairly responsible, yet not allowed to to have friends over if Dawn isn't there in The Ghost at Dawn's House.
Biography[]
Jeff was born in Palo City and he is three years younger than Dawn. He moved with his mom and sister to Stoneybrook in Mary Anne Saves the Day, but did not adjust to the move well. He got into trouble in school a lot and got into a few fights (mostly with Jerry Haney) because he missed his dad. He hated most things about Stoneybrook. He finally chose to move back to California with his father in Little Miss Stoneybrook ...and Dawn. He hates most things about Connecticut.
Jeff comes back to Stoneybrook for winter vacation for a week in Dawn's Big Date.
In Dawn's Family Feud he doesn't get along with Richard because he's not as athletic as Jeff and is stricter than Jeff's father or mother. According to his mother he has only sent one letter to his mom in six months.
Jeff, unlike Dawn, was quick to accept Carol as his stepmother, but hates her sense of style. He loves his baby sister, Gracie, and helped name her in Dawn, Diary Two.
He likes the Schafers' housekeeper, Mrs. Bruen, and was worried about her losing her job when his dad, Jack, married his new wife Carol in Here Come the Bridesmaids!. However, since Carol is also very messy, Mrs. Bruen now had more work to do. His room tends to be on the messy side, or as he prefers to put it: organized chaos. Sometimes it gets so bad that Jack just closes the door and assumes everything is all right as long as he can't smell anything. Mrs. Bruen is not allowed to move or touch the clutter on his floor in California Girls!.
Jeff is a good baby-sitter such as when he helps Dawn sit for Carol's friends kids in CA in Mary Anne and Too Many Boys.
He convinced his parents on Halloween to give out candy instead of apples and raisins in Dawn and the Halloween Mystery. He sometimes eats meat (like a hot dog) in Dawn and Whitney, Friends Forever.
Jeff joins the BSC as a baby-sitting in training, but it takes too much time in Dawn and Too Many Sitters. There are better things to do like rollerblading. He is compiling/writing Jeff's off the wall, Krazy, Explode Your Sides Sense of Humor (a.k.a, The Jeff Schafer Book of Funniest Jokes Ever Told, Volume One) during the book. He loves to make people laugh and wants to be a comedian when he is older.
In Claudia and the New Girl, Jeff got in trouble with Ms. Besser. It was the third time he threw a blackboard eraser across the room. This time it knocked over Simon Beal's tile mosaic and it broke. Then one of the tiles cut Lynn's leg and Jeff got into a fight with Jerry Haney.
Jeff has to be rushed to the hospital with a ruptured appendix in Logan's Story. This causes Sharon and Dawn to leave to California to be with him, leaving Logan Bruno to briefly take her place. He stays at the hospital for more then a week, but recovers fully.
Jeff along with Dawn Schafer, Claudia Kishi, Haley Braddock, Jamie Newton, and Becca Ramsey got stuck on Nine O'Clock Island in Baby-sitters' Island Adventure. He caught fish for everyone on the island and cut his foot which got infected. He returned home by the end of the book. Jeff missed the press conference and asked for a copy of the article since nobody believed him.
In Snowbound, his plane was rerouted to Washington D.C. when the plane couldn't land because of the snow. A flight attendant stayed with him. Jeff was upset that he couldn't make it home in time, but happy to order room service at the hotel. He was one of the two kids traveling alone, the other was a little girl who kept crying thinking the plane was hijacked. Jeff was allowed to keep the shoehorn from the hotel and put in Richard's stocking.
Friends[]
- Jordan Pike
- Adam Pike
- Byron Pike
- Nicky Pike
- Luke (in #23)
- Rob (SS#5)
- Mark (Dawn's Book)
- Jason (#15)
- Skateboarding buddies (M#12)
- Spencer (CD#6)
Likes[]
- Soccer and sports (#64)
- Junk food (M#17)
- Chocolate cake (#9)
- His favorite shirt is his green and white striped t-shirt (#64)
- Mexican food is his favorite (#64)
- Favorite frozen yogurt is double chocolate chip (#64)
- Loves to create elaborate Halloween costumes (M#17)
- Vending machines (#15)
- Photo booths (#15)
- Machines that plasticize things (#15)
- He loves Disneyland, and his favorite place to go is Frontierland (Dawn on the Coast#23)
- Indiana Jones (#34)
- Space Creature comics (#9)
- Grateful Dead (SS#5)
- The Kannibal Krew Magazine (#98)
Dislikes[]
Trivia[]
- Jeff doesn't believe in ghosts in The Ghost at Dawn's House.
- He thinks girls are gross in Dawn and Too Many Sitters.
- He considers himself a major "dead-head" in Dawn's Big Move.
- Ms. Besser was his teacher at SES, she was first mentioned in Claudia and the New Girl.
- He gets O's for outstanding instead of A's on his book report in Dawn's Big Move.
- When the barn gets remodeled he had a super hero themed bedroom in Welcome Home, Mary Anne.
- He cuts Lynn's leg when throwing a eraser in Claudia and the New Girl.
- He has his own camera that he got from his dad in Dawn and the Impossible Three.
- Jeff narrates two chapters in Here Come the Bridesmaids! and a chapter in BSC in the USA.
- He is practically vegetarian in Mary Anne and Miss Priss.
- It's mentioned he taught Dawn how to climb ropes in Little Miss Stoneybrook ...and Dawn.
- He always uses chop sticks to eat Thai food in Dawn and the We ♥️ Kids Club.
- He loves sports, he joins the basketball team in California, practically the star player in Mary Anne and the Great Romance.
- He has a waterproof watch in Baby-sitters' Island Adventure.
- Dawn's baby name for him is Jeffy in California Girls!
- His first word was Da-Da, meaning Dawn, in Dawn's Book
- His middle name is Charles, presumably after his maternal grandfather Charles Porter.
- He normally sticks to healthy foods like his sister and mother, but Dawn notes in The Ghost at Dawn's House that he goes "sort of crazy" over chocolate cake. He also eats a hot dog at a baseball game in Dawn and Whitney, Friends Forever.
- He doesn't get along with Richard at first, due to them being so different and Richard's inexperience with parenting boys (since he's only raised a very girly daughter) among other things. They eventually bond over bad jokes.
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