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| + | '''Karen Brewer''' is the 7-year-old daughter of [[Watson Brewer]] & [[Lisa Engle]]. She is the older sister of [[Andrew Brewer]] and the stepdaughter of [[Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer]] & [[Seth Engle]]. |
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| − | [[File:Karen-1.png|thumb|Karen]]Karen is dramatic, cautious, good at story telling, energetic, funny, smart, cute, fun, and likes lemonade. She doesn't like divorce. Karen has a blanket called [[Tickly]] and two stuffed cats called [[Moosie]] and [[Goosie]] . Karen loves getting read a story before bed. Karen loves playing make believe and came up with the game [[Let's All Come In]], which she loves playing. Karen is usually enthusiastic and happy. Karen has a big imagination that she lets wild. Karen can be wild and crazy. Karen is a good kid, but can be pretty uncontrollable at times. Karen's imagination is enough to make anyone go crazy. Her two best friends are [[Nancy Dawes]] and [[Hannie Papadakis]] . The three of them call themselves the [[Three Musketeers]] . Karen is the unofficial leader of the trio. Karen is also very smart and skipped first grade. Her father has a bumper sticker on his station wagon announcing that Karen made honor roll in kindergarten. She loves to read, especially books about witches. She likes to be the center of attention at times and lets her imagination get the best of her. Many of the times Karen gets in trouble are the result of her imagination or getting over-exuberant. |
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+ | == Biography == |
| + | Karen is the stepsister of [[Charlie Thomas|Charlie]], [[Sam Thomas|Sam]], [[Kristy Thomas|Kristy]] & [[David Michael Thomas]]. She is the adoptive sister of [[Emily Michelle Brewer]]. Kristy is described as being one of Karen's favorite people. |
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| − | Her father [[Watson Brewer]] is a milllionaire. [[Andrew Brewer|Andrew]], Karen's four year old (almost five year old) brother, gets along well with Karen. Her big stepsister [[Kristy Thomas|Kristy]], who she says is one of her favourite people, baby sat for her and her brother a lot before and after Elizabeth and Watson get married. Her stepbrothers are [[David Michael Thomas|David Michael]], [[Charlie Thomas|Charlie]], and [[Sam Thomas|Sam]]. Her stepmother, Elizabeth, is nice to her. She has a stepdad named [[Seth Engle ]](who is now married to Karen's mother, [[Lisa Engle]]) whom she likes. For years, Karen and Andrew lived mostly with Seth and Lisa in the "little house" on Forest Drive along with Seth's cat (Rocky) and dog (Midge). Karen spends weekends and holidays with her "big house" family on McLelland Road for years until custody arrangement change where Karen and Andrew live at each house every other month. Karen is 'married' to Ricky, a boy at her school. Karen has a pet rat named after [[Emily Michelle Brewer]] which she called [[Emily Junior]]. Karen has a goldfish named [[Crystal Light The Second]] and Andrew has one named[[ Goldfishie]]. |
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| + | Karen was born on a spring Saturday afternoon at 2:35 p.m. Watson picked her name which means "pure" because he felt pure joy in seeing his daughter. |
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| − | ==Apperance== |
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| − | Karen is your 'average' second grader. She has blonde hair and blue eyes and she wears glasses. Karen wears blue glasses for reading and pink glasses for the rest of the time. Karen has freckles. Karen often wears her hair in ponytails on covers of [[The Baby-Sitter's Little Sister]] books. |
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| + | Karen describes her & Andrew as "two-two" (that she got a book called "Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang") because they split their time between the "little house" (which is their mom's house) and the "big house" (which is their dad's house). |
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| − | ==Stories== |
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| + | Karen and Andrew tend to have two of most things since they spend a lot of time at each of their parents' house. |
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| − | Karen often makes up stories and is pretty dramatic. She told everyone in Book #6 [[Kristy's Big Day]] that Andrew would turn into a monster at a certain time of day. Karen's stories are often about [[Mrs. Porter (Morbidda Destiny)|Mrs. Porter]] (her next door neighbor whom she thinks is a witch) or [[Ben Brewer]] (her deceased ancestor, whom Karen believes is a ghost). She also makes up stories about martians (such as in Book #6[[ Kristy's Big Day]] ). Karen loves scaring people (even herself). Karen doesn't mean to scare Andrew, but she often does. |
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| + | In the book "[[Little Miss Stoneybrook...and Dawn]]", Kristy helps Karen enter the Little Miss Stoneybrook pageant. The pageant is for girls ages 5 to 8. In the pageant Karen wears the dress that she wore in her father and stepmother's wedding. For her talent, she sings "The Wheels on the Bus", but she added so many extra, made up verses to the song that the judges felt she took too much time and they began looking at their watches to see how long she was taking. For the interview part, Karen was asked "If your house was on fire and you could only rescue three things, what would they be, and why?" Karen had practiced the questions with Kristy and knew what she was supposed to say (nice answers like saying she would rescue her family), but instead she said she would rescue her toys and her blanket. Karen did not win anything in the beauty pageant and she was sad and cried. The girl who got 3rd place was a ballerina named Lisa Sherman. The girl who got 2nd place was a tap dancer named Myriah Perkins and she is a girl that Kristy and her friends have babysat for, and Kristy's friend Mary Anne was helping her enter the pageant. The girl who got 1st place (winning the title of Little Miss Stoneybrook and a crown and a bunch of roses and a parade) was a girl named Sabrina Bouvier who had worn a long black dress and sang the song Moon River for her talent and said she wanted world peace for her interview question. |
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| + | Karen is in the second grade in [[Ms. Colman]]'s class at [[Stoneybrook Academy]]. She is a very smart girl and reads a lot. |
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| + | [[File:Karen_Brewer.jpg|thumb]] |
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| + | When she began kindergarten, she was put in the first grade during Christmas. After spending a week in first grade, Karen's teachers decided to move her to the second grade. |
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| + | When she was younger, Karen attended [[Little Friends Day School]] where her teacher was [[Ms. Herman]]. |
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| + | == In the graphic novels == |
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| + | [[File:Graphic novel Karen.jpeg|thumb|200x200px|Karen as she appears in the graphic novels]] |
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| + | Karen appears in the [[BSC Graphic Novels|graphic novel versions]] of [[Kristy's Great Idea]], [[Kristy's Big Day]], and [[Claudia and Mean Janine]]. In the books she doesn’t appear in (minus [[Dawn and the Impossible Three]]) Kristy would receive a call from Watson to sit for her and Andrew. |
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| + | == Details == |
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| + | * Karen takes her spelling seriously and is protective of her little brother. |
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| + | * She believes her neighbor [[Mrs. Porter (Morbidda Destiny)|Mrs. Porter]] (or Morbidda Destiny) is a witch. |
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| + | * She thinks that the attic in the Brewers' house is haunted by the ghost of [[Ben Brewer]]. |
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| + | * Karen has to wear earplugs when she goes swimming. She likes to help out in the kitchen. |
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| + | * She loves to make up games. She likes to play [[Let's All Come In]] and her favorite character in the game is Mrs. Mysterious (who dresses in black). Karen's favorite game is [[Going Camping]]. |
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| + | * Karen attended [[Camp Mohawk]] one summer and even attended a circus camp with her friends. |
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| + | * Karen can sometimes be bossy and loves to be the leader. |
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| + | ==Description== |
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| + | Karen is described as having blonde hair, blue eyes, freckles and wears glasses (she has blue glasses for reading & pink glasses for everything else). |
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| + | ==Personality== |
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| + | Karen is fearless with a wild imagination which can sometimes get out of hand. |
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==Friends== |
==Friends== |
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| − | + | * Karen's two best friends are [[Hannie Papadakis]] and [[Nancy Dawes]]. The three of them call themselves the "Three Musketeers." |
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| − | ==Life Events== |
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| − | ===Travel=== |
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| − | *Cruise/Disney World - BSC Super Special 1 |
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| − | *Camp Mohawk - BSC Super Special 2 |
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| − | *Cross Country RV vacation - BSC Super Special 14 |
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| − | *Shadow Lake |
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| − | *Grandparent's farm in Nebraska (first solo airplane ride)- BSLS Super Special 2 |
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| − | === Events=== |
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| − | *Starred as Tinkerbell in SMS production of Peter Pan - BSC Super Special 9 |
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| − | *Flower Girl in father's wedding - BSC #6 |
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| − | *Broke wrist while roller skating - BSLS #2 |
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| − | *Had flu - BSLS #23 |
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| − | *Starred as turkey in class Thanksgiving play - BSLS #13 |
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| + | * Karen met Hannie on her first day of preschool and she met Nancy after her parents' divorce & she moved into the "little house" with her mother & brother. |
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| − | *Story telling |
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| − | *Playing make believe |
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| − | *Scaring people |
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| − | *Causing drama |
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| − | *Inventing games |
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| − | *Gymnastics |
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| − | *Ice Skating |
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| − | *Spelling |
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| + | * She used to be friends with [[Amanda Delaney]] until the Delaney family moved away to another neighborhood. |
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| − | ==Interests== |
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| − | *Games |
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| − | *Scaring herself |
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| − | *Playing make believe, including Let's All Come In |
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| − | *Inventing games |
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| − | *Story telling |
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| − | *Witches |
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| − | *Ghosts |
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| − | *Reading (one of her favorite books is ''The Littlest Witch'') |
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| + | * After the [[Kormans]] moved into the Delaney's old house, Karen becomes close friends with [[Melody Korman]]. She is also friends with [[Shannon Kilbourne]]'s younger sister [[Maria Kilbourne]] and [[Mallory Pike]]'s sister [[Margo Pike]]. |
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| + | * Karen has a pretend husband named [[Ricky Torres]] who sits next to her in class because he also wears glasses. |
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| − | *Sam Thomas |
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| − | *Kristy Thomas |
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| − | *David Michael Thomas (sometimes) |
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| − | *Watson Brewer |
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| − | *Andrew Brewer |
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| − | *Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer |
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| − | *Seth Engle |
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| − | *Lisa Engle |
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| − | *Emily Michelle Brewer |
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| − | *Emily Junior |
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| − | *Goldfishie |
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| − | *Crystal Light The Second |
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| − | *Shannon Thomas-Brewer |
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| − | *Witches |
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| − | *Ghosts |
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| − | *Martians |
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| − | *Telling scary stories |
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| − | *Getting scared |
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| − | *Reading |
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| − | *Moosie |
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| − | *Gussie |
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| − | *Tickly |
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| − | *Stories |
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| − | *Let's All Come In |
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| − | *[[Ricky Torres]] |
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| − | *Amanda Delaney |
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| + | * She is also friends with classmates [[Natalie Springer]] and [[Bobby Gianelli]] (who used to be a bully). |
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| + | * Karen has a pen pal named [[Maxie Medvin]] who lives in New York City. She is also pen pals with Ms. Coleman's niece [[Caroline]] who lives in Oregon. |
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+ | ==Enemies== |
| + | * Karen's "best enemies" are [[Pamela Harding]] & her friends [[Jannie Gilbert]] and [[Leslie Morris]]. |
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| + | * As revealed in the graphic novel version of [[Claudia and Mean Janine]], Karen seems to have a hatred for [[Jenny Prezzioso]]. |
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| + | ==Pets== |
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| − | *Divorce (Book #1 Kristy's Great Idea) |
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| + | Karen has pets who live in the "big house" and the "little house." |
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| + | * In the "little house," her stepfather [[Seth Engle]] has a cat named [[Rocky]] and a dog named [[Midgie]]. |
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| + | * Karen has a rat named [[Emily Junior]] who travels with her between her two houses. |
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| − | *David Michael Thomas (sometimes) |
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| + | * Karen found a cat named Growly in her shed & adopted it. |
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| + | * In the "big house," her dad had a cat named [[Boo-Boo]] who later passed away and the family got a kitten named [[Pumpkin]]. |
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| + | * Her stepbrother David Michael has a Bernese mountain dog puppy named [[Shannon]]. |
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| + | * She and Andrew have goldfishes named [[Crystal Light the Second]] and [[Goldfishie]] that live in a tank in the playroom at Watson's house. |
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| + | * Karen used to have a goldfish named [[Crystal Light]], but it passed away while she was at her mom's house. |
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| + | * Watson adopted a pony named [[Blueberry]] for Karen after visiting an estate sale. |
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| + | ==Toys== |
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| + | * Karen has two stuffed cats named Moosie and Goosie (who look exactly the same). Goosie stays at the "little house" and Moosie stays at the "big house." |
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| + | * After Seth accepted a job in Chicago, Goosie moves with Karen to her dad's house. |
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| + | * She has a blanket named Tickly that she ripped in half to keep one piece at her mother's and father's house. |
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| + | ==Health== |
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| + | Karen has been the hospital twice: when she broke her wrist while roller-skating and when she got her spleen removed after falling from her tree house. |
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| + | She also had the chicken pox. |
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| + | *Rollerskating |
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| + | *Drawing |
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| + | *Singing |
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| + | *Leadership |
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| + | *Mr. Ed TV show |
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| + | *cherry Italian ice |
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| + | *[[Nancy Dawes]] |
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| + | *being the leader |
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| + | *[[The Three Musketeers]] |
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| + | *Ms. Coleman |
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| + | *The Wizard of Oz movie |
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| + | *unicorns |
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| + | ==Dislikes== |
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| + | *Being grounded |
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| + | *being punished |
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| + | *Cartoons |
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| + | *house rules |
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| + | *her favorite jeans being missing (left at Mommy's house) |
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| + | *having a punk hairstyle |
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| + | *her favorite TV show Mr. Ed not being on |
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| + | *having the chicken pox |
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| + | *being bored |
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| + | *getting into fights |
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| + | ==Gallery== |
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| − | *[[Jenny Prezziosio]] (Book #7 Claudia and Mean Janine) |
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| + | ===Interior Illustrations=== |
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| + | <gallery> |
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| + | Mary Anne Karen SS8.jpg|Mary Anne and Karen at [[Shadow Lake]] |
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| + | Karen and Seth after the hurricane SS10.jpg|[[Karen Brewer]] and her stepdad [[Seth Engle]] inspect their street after the hurricane hits Stoneybrook. |
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| + | Kristy Thomas Brewer Family Portrait from 1991 Calendar.jpg|The [[Brewer/Thomas]] family portrait from the [[1991 BSC calendar]]. |
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| + | Karen Brewer manicure SS1.jpeg|Karen's manicure |
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| + | Kristy and kids at Krushers Bashers game SS10.jpg|Karen at a Krushers game |
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| + | Elizabeth and Karen reading from LS3.jpg|Karen and her stepmother |
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| + | ===BSC Book Covers=== |
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| − | *Mrs. Porter/Morbidda Destiny |
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| + | Super Mystery 1 Baby-sitters Haunted House cover stock image.jpg|Super Mystery #1 |
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| + | Super Special 9 Starring the Baby-Sitters Club ebook cover.jpg|Super Special #9 |
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| + | Baby-sitters Club 6 Kristys Big Day cover stock image.jpg|#6 |
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| + | Baby-Sitters Club 74 Kristy and the Copycat cover.jpg|#74 |
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| + | BSC Mystery 9 Kristy and the Haunted Mansion cover stock image.jpg|Mystery #9 |
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| + | ===The Kids in Ms. Colman's Class=== |
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| − | *Ben Brewer |
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| + | The Kids in Ms. Colmans Class 7 Science Fair cover stock image.jpg |
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Revision as of 00:32, 30 August 2019
Karen Brewer is the 7-year-old daughter of Watson Brewer & Lisa Engle. She is the older sister of Andrew Brewer and the stepdaughter of Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer & Seth Engle.
Biography
Karen is the stepsister of Charlie, Sam, Kristy & David Michael Thomas. She is the adoptive sister of Emily Michelle Brewer. Kristy is described as being one of Karen's favorite people.
Karen was born on a spring Saturday afternoon at 2:35 p.m. Watson picked her name which means "pure" because he felt pure joy in seeing his daughter.
Karen describes her & Andrew as "two-two" (that she got a book called "Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang") because they split their time between the "little house" (which is their mom's house) and the "big house" (which is their dad's house).
Karen and Andrew tend to have two of most things since they spend a lot of time at each of their parents' house.
In the book "Little Miss Stoneybrook...and Dawn", Kristy helps Karen enter the Little Miss Stoneybrook pageant. The pageant is for girls ages 5 to 8. In the pageant Karen wears the dress that she wore in her father and stepmother's wedding. For her talent, she sings "The Wheels on the Bus", but she added so many extra, made up verses to the song that the judges felt she took too much time and they began looking at their watches to see how long she was taking. For the interview part, Karen was asked "If your house was on fire and you could only rescue three things, what would they be, and why?" Karen had practiced the questions with Kristy and knew what she was supposed to say (nice answers like saying she would rescue her family), but instead she said she would rescue her toys and her blanket. Karen did not win anything in the beauty pageant and she was sad and cried. The girl who got 3rd place was a ballerina named Lisa Sherman. The girl who got 2nd place was a tap dancer named Myriah Perkins and she is a girl that Kristy and her friends have babysat for, and Kristy's friend Mary Anne was helping her enter the pageant. The girl who got 1st place (winning the title of Little Miss Stoneybrook and a crown and a bunch of roses and a parade) was a girl named Sabrina Bouvier who had worn a long black dress and sang the song Moon River for her talent and said she wanted world peace for her interview question.
Karen is in the second grade in Ms. Colman's class at Stoneybrook Academy. She is a very smart girl and reads a lot.
When she began kindergarten, she was put in the first grade during Christmas. After spending a week in first grade, Karen's teachers decided to move her to the second grade.
When she was younger, Karen attended Little Friends Day School where her teacher was Ms. Herman.
In the graphic novels
Karen as she appears in the graphic novels
Karen appears in the graphic novel versions of Kristy's Great Idea, Kristy's Big Day, and Claudia and Mean Janine. In the books she doesn’t appear in (minus Dawn and the Impossible Three) Kristy would receive a call from Watson to sit for her and Andrew.
Details
- Karen takes her spelling seriously and is protective of her little brother.
- She believes her neighbor Mrs. Porter (or Morbidda Destiny) is a witch.
- She thinks that the attic in the Brewers' house is haunted by the ghost of Ben Brewer.
- Karen has to wear earplugs when she goes swimming. She likes to help out in the kitchen.
- She loves to make up games. She likes to play Let's All Come In and her favorite character in the game is Mrs. Mysterious (who dresses in black). Karen's favorite game is Going Camping.
- Karen attended Camp Mohawk one summer and even attended a circus camp with her friends.
- Karen can sometimes be bossy and loves to be the leader.
Description
Karen is described as having blonde hair, blue eyes, freckles and wears glasses (she has blue glasses for reading & pink glasses for everything else).
Personality
Karen is fearless with a wild imagination which can sometimes get out of hand.
Friends
- Karen's two best friends are Hannie Papadakis and Nancy Dawes. The three of them call themselves the "Three Musketeers."
- Karen met Hannie on her first day of preschool and she met Nancy after her parents' divorce & she moved into the "little house" with her mother & brother.
- She used to be friends with Amanda Delaney until the Delaney family moved away to another neighborhood.
- After the Kormans moved into the Delaney's old house, Karen becomes close friends with Melody Korman. She is also friends with Shannon Kilbourne's younger sister Maria Kilbourne and Mallory Pike's sister Margo Pike.
- Karen has a pretend husband named Ricky Torres who sits next to her in class because he also wears glasses.
- She is also friends with classmates Natalie Springer and Bobby Gianelli (who used to be a bully).
- Karen has a pen pal named Maxie Medvin who lives in New York City. She is also pen pals with Ms. Coleman's niece Caroline who lives in Oregon.
Enemies
- Karen's "best enemies" are Pamela Harding & her friends Jannie Gilbert and Leslie Morris.
- As revealed in the graphic novel version of Claudia and Mean Janine, Karen seems to have a hatred for Jenny Prezzioso.
Pets
Karen has pets who live in the "big house" and the "little house."
- In the "little house," her stepfather Seth Engle has a cat named Rocky and a dog named Midgie.
- Karen has a rat named Emily Junior who travels with her between her two houses.
- Karen found a cat named Growly in her shed & adopted it.
- In the "big house," her dad had a cat named Boo-Boo who later passed away and the family got a kitten named Pumpkin.
- Her stepbrother David Michael has a Bernese mountain dog puppy named Shannon.
- She and Andrew have goldfishes named Crystal Light the Second and Goldfishie that live in a tank in the playroom at Watson's house.
- Karen used to have a goldfish named Crystal Light, but it passed away while she was at her mom's house.
- Watson adopted a pony named Blueberry for Karen after visiting an estate sale.
Toys
- Karen has two stuffed cats named Moosie and Goosie (who look exactly the same). Goosie stays at the "little house" and Moosie stays at the "big house."
- After Seth accepted a job in Chicago, Goosie moves with Karen to her dad's house.
- She has a blanket named Tickly that she ripped in half to keep one piece at her mother's and father's house.
Health
Karen has been the hospital twice: when she broke her wrist while roller-skating and when she got her spleen removed after falling from her tree house.
She also had the chicken pox.
Talents
- Rollerskating
- Drawing
- Reading
- Singing
- Leadership
Likes
- Kristy Thomas
- Mr. Ed TV show
- cherry Italian ice
- Nancy Dawes
- being the leader
- Hannie Papadakis
- The Three Musketeers
- Ms. Coleman
- The Wizard of Oz movie
- unicorns
Dislikes
- Being grounded
- being punished
- Cartoons
- house rules
- her favorite jeans being missing (left at Mommy's house)
- having a punk hairstyle
- her favorite TV show Mr. Ed not being on
- having the chicken pox
- being bored
- getting into fights
Gallery
Interior Illustrations
Mary Anne and Karen at Shadow Lake
Karen Brewer and her stepdad Seth Engle inspect their street after the hurricane hits Stoneybrook.
The Brewer/Thomas family portrait from the 1991 BSC calendar.
Karen's manicure
Karen at a Krushers game
Karen and her stepmother
BSC Book Covers
Super Mystery #1
Super Special #9
