Portrait Collection: Stacey's Book
Let me start by praising the crown on this cover, as we all know that Stacey is the Queen of Stoneybrook (and the world). Anyway, we have a new “special series”; all of the Stoneybrook eighth-graders have to write their autobiographies and Stacey’s is first.
In this book, we learn:
Stacey was born at 1:30am on April 3rd at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Her first memory is of having to pack up her toys because her family was moving.
Growing up, Stacey loved Eloise and had her fourth birthday at the Plaza Hotel; when the waiter at the Palm Court brought out a little chocolate cake for her and the whole room sang “Happy Birthday” to her, Luciano Pavarotti was in the room and sang along too.
When Stacey was in kindergarten she got to be in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, on the Cinderella float. But right when her float was on TV, she leaned over to save Cinderella’s crown from flying away, and she didn’t appear on the broadcast. She did, however, get to keep Cinderella’s crown, and that’s what’s on the cover of the book.
Laine has been a frosty bitch since the start.
When Stacey was eight, she and Laine were supposed to be taking ballroom dance lessons but they ditched them each day and roamed around the Upper East Side until they finally got caught before the whole thing turned into an episode of Dateline or Unsolved Mysteries.
When Stacey was ten, she and her parents spent two week on an island off the coast of Maine. At first I was offended that Stacey seemed so annoyed by my home state, but by the end of her vacation she’d come to realize what it has to offer.
Claudia came to visit Stacey in NYC shortly before Stacey’s parents divorced and she had to decide where to live, and that visited helped her realize that Stoneybrook is her true home.
