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    Dawn: Diary Two
    Dawn: Diary Two
    Dawn: Diary Two
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    Dawn: Diary Two

    By Ann M. Martin

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    Dawn’s dad and stepmom just had a baby girl—new, cute, and perfect . . . When vying for her parents’ attention, how can Dawn compete?
    Dawn and Sunny’s friendship is over. It seems to Dawn like she moved back to California for nothing—Sunny certainly doesn’t appreciate all that Dawn has done to help her. Dawn spends more time with Maggie and Ducky, but somehow that makes her miss Sunny more, even though she’s still angry with her.
    At home, all her dad and stepmom can do is think about the new baby. Is there even room for two daughters in her parents’ lives now? Maybe she’s not needed in California anymore. When Dawn heads back to Stoneybrook for the summer, perhaps it will be for good.
    This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author’s collection.

    Dawn: Diary Two is the 7th book in the California Diaries, which also includes Sunny: Diary Two and Maggie: Diary Two.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateMar 25, 2014
    ISBN9781453298145
    Dawn: Diary Two
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    Ann M. Martin

    Ann M. Martin grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. After attending Smith College, where she studied education and psychology, she became a teacher at a small elementary school in Connecticut. Martin also worked as an editor of children’s books before she began writing full time. Martin is best known for the Baby-Sitters Club series, which has sold over one hundred seventy million copies. Her novel A Corner of the Universe won a Newbery Honor in 2003. In 1990, she cofounded the Lisa Libraries, which donates new children’s books to organizations in underserved areas. Martin lives in upstate New York with her three cats.

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      Dawn - Ann M. Martin

      Dawn: Diary Two

      California Diaries

      Ann M. Martin

      The author gratefully acknowledges Jeanne Betancourt for her help in preparing this manuscript.

      Contents

      Saturday morning 6/6

      Saturday morning continued 6/6

      Saturday noon 6/6

      Sunday afternoon 6/7

      Sunday night 6/7

      Lunch 6/8

      Monday afternoon 6/8

      Monday night 6/8

      Thursday night 6/11

      Friday afternoon 6/12

      Friday night 6/12

      Noon on Saturday 6/13

      Later 6/13

      At Maggie’s after the concert 6/13

      Wednesday 6/17

      Wednesday evening 6/17

      11 p.m. 6/17

      Afternoon 6/18

      Friday morning 6/19

      Friday evening 6/19

      Later Friday 6/19

      Saturday evening 6/20

      Sunday/Monday (midnight)

      Preview: Maggie: Diary Two

      A Personal History by Ann M. Martin

      Saturday morning 6/6

      Journals are for talking about your feelings. Here’s what I am feeling:

      Lonely.

      Tense.

      Sad.

      I look at what I’ve just written and I am amazed. None of it sounds like me. I used to be an upbeat kind of person. I tried not to show my negative feelings to the rest of the world. But I can’t deny that I feel them. This is me, Dawn Schafer, right now.

      Lonely.

      Tense.

      Sad.

      I know why I’m upset. Sunny, my very best friend in the whole world, has turned into an entirely different person.

      Make that my former best friend.

      The only other time I have felt this terrible was when Mom and Dad were first divorced. And I had to leave California to live on the other side of the country with Mom. I hated leaving Sunny. And I missed her the whole time I lived on the East Coast.

      Sunny was one of the main reasons I moved back to California. When her mother was diagnosed with lung cancer I thought Sunny would need her best friend close by. I’m glad I’m here for Mrs. Winslow, but I was totally wrong about what Sunny needed.

      It’s so ironic. I moved back to be close to Sunny and we aren’t even speaking to each other.

      Maybe Sunny and I were only best friends because we were neighbors. No, that doesn’t make sense. We used to do absolutely everything together. We could finish each other’s sentences. The phone would ring, and I would know it was Sunny before I picked up the receiver. I could walk into her house anytime and feel like a member of the family. Sunny could do that at our house too. Even after Dad remarried and Carol moved in with us. Another irony—Sunny gets along better with Carol than I do.

      I hate that Sunny isn’t acting like Sunny anymore. She’s changed from this clever, considerate, always-there-for-you friend into a sneaky, inconsiderate, never-to-be-trusted-again stranger. Sunny is the last person I would have expected to change like that. Especially now, when her family is going through such a hard time. I mean, we have to face it—Mrs. Winslow is … Well, they don’t have much hope anymore that she will ever get better. Just writing that made me cry. Mrs. Winslow is wonderful, like a second mother to me. I’m a lot closer to her than I’ll ever be to Carol.

      What I don’t understand is why Sunny is turning into some other person just when her mother and father need her the most. It’s like she doesn’t care about anyone but herself. She skips school, hangs out with older guys, is dressing in a different way that’s very … adult. It’s like she doesn’t care what people think about her. But what bothers me the most is that Sunny is not there for her mother.

      Instead of visiting her mother in the hospital, she’s been over at our place an awful lot, taking care of Carol because she’s having a baby. I do feel sorry for Carol. The doctor ordered her to stay in bed for the last three months of her pregnancy. She can’t even get up to go to the bathroom. We have to bring her a bedpan. I know it’s hard on Carol, but it’s also a lot of extra work for Dad and me. Even Jeff is pitching in. But we didn’t expect Sunny to help out. Especially not when it meant neglecting her own sick mother. If my mother were sick I would be with her as much as possible. But I don’t want to think about that possibility. It’s too awful.

      An ambulance just drove up our street and pulled into the Winslows’ driveway. Mrs. Winslow has been getting sicker every day. So she’s either going back to the hospital or … I want to run over there to find out what’s going on. I want to help. But how can I when Sunny and I aren’t even talking? I’m so worried about Mrs. Winslow.

      Carol just rang the little bell she uses to say she needs something. Later …

      Saturday morning continued 6/6

      Mrs. Winslow has gone back to the hospital. Carol and I saw them take her out on a stretcher. Mr. Winslow was walking beside his wife. He didn’t go in the ambulance but followed it in his car. He looked really sad. He had been so happy that his wife was home again. We all were. We hoped she’d be able to stay this time.

      At first I thought Sunny wasn’t home and that’s why she wasn’t with her mother. But then I spotted her peeking out from behind the blinds in the living room. I told Carol that if it were my mother I’d be in the ambulance with her. Carol said that might not be what Mrs. Winslow wanted.

      Why wouldn’t she? I asked. Sunny is her daughter.

      Maybe she’s going later. Carol patted her big belly. I can’t help remembering that my baby and I were almost taken away in an ambulance.

      Thanks to Sunny, I pointed out.

      Accidents happen, said Carol.

      She has been standing up for Sunny a lot lately. What almost happened to Carol and the baby wasn’t an accident. It was Sunny’s fault. Plain and simple.

      I know it was almost two months ago, but I can’t stop thinking about it. Sunny promised she’d watch out for Carol, who was not supposed to get out of bed under any circumstances.

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