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Before you judge me and say those books are for GIRLS, let me just explain that the only reason I got into them was because one time I forgot to bring in a book for Silent Reading, and the only books the teacher had were in the Slumber Party Pals series. And once you've read one of them, you can't stop. There must be something like a hundred books in that series. The first thirty or so were pretty good, but after that I think the author started running out of ideas.

在你评判我说这些书是给女生看的之前，让我先解释一下，我喜欢这些书的唯一原因是有一次我忘了带一本无声阅读的书，而老师手里只有《睡衣派对伙伴》系列的书。 一旦你读了其中一本，你就停不下来了。 这个系列的书大概有一百多本。 前30个左右的作品相当不错，但在那之后，我认为作者开始失去创意了。

Lindsey Loses a Mitten Anyway, in the Slumber Party Pals books these two friends are always getting into fights with each other about little stuff. YOU USED UP ALL MY PURPLE LIP GLOSS BECAUSE YOU KNEW I WANTED TO WEAR IT TO THE ROLLER RINK! WELL, YOU ONLY WANTED TO WEAR IT BECAUSE YOU KNEW JUSTIN WOULD BE THERE! But after a while things always cool down and the girls learn the true meaning of friendship.

不管怎样，在《睡衣派对伙伴》的书中，这两个朋友总是因为一些小事而吵架。 你用光了我所有的紫色唇彩因为你知道我想带着它去溜冰场！你想戴它只是因为你知道贾斯汀会在那里！但过了一段时间，事情总是冷静下来，女孩们学会了友谊的真谛。

I'M SORRY I USED UP YOUR LIP GLOSS! AND I'M SORRY I KISSED JUSTIN AT THE ROLLER RINK. WAIT... WHAT? And that's basically the plot of every single book in the Slumber Party Pals series. Well, that might be the way things work with GIRLS, but I can tell you firsthand that is NOT the way it works with BOYS. For boys, things are just a lot less complicated. For an example, let's say one guy breaks something that belongs to another guy, but it's totally an accident. Well, five seconds later everybody's moved on and things are pretty much back to normal.

对不起，我用完了你的唇彩！我很抱歉在溜冰场吻了贾斯汀。 等待……怎么啦？这基本上就是《睡衣派对伙伴》系列每一本书的情节。 好吧，这可能是女孩的工作方式，但我可以直接告诉你，这不是男孩的工作方式。 对于男孩来说，事情就没那么复杂了。 举个例子，假设一个人打碎了另一个人的东西，但这完全是一个意外。 五秒钟后，大家都走了，一切都恢复正常了。

I don't know if that means guys are less sophisticated than girls or whatever, but I do know that the way we do things sure saves a lot of time and energy. Friday I hate to say it, but Mom's prediction about me and Rowley is starting to come true. Ever since Abigail and Rowley got together, Abigail has been sitting at our lunch table, which is all boys. I already mentioned how she's not a fan of the chocolate milk bubble-blowing thing, but there's a lot of OTHER stuff she doesn't like, either. One of them is the five-second rule. All the guys at our table agree that if you drop a piece of food on

我不知道这是否意味着男孩没有女孩那么成熟，但我知道我们做事的方式确实节省了很多时间和精力。 星期五我不想这么说，但妈妈对我和罗利的预言开始成真了。 自从阿比盖尔和罗利在一起，阿比盖尔就一直坐在我们的午餐桌旁，全是男孩。 我已经提到过她是如何不喜欢巧克力牛奶吹泡泡的，但还有很多其他的东西她也不喜欢。 其中之一是五秒规则。 我们桌的所有人都同意如果你掉了一块食物在

the floor, as long as you pick it up within five seconds, it's still okay to eat. A new twist someone came up with recently is that you can grab a piece of food off the floor even if YOU'RE not the one who actually DROPPED it. I've lost two chocolate chip cookies and a Fudgesicle that way already. This new rule has caused some other problems, though. Yesterday, Freddie Harlahan ate a piece of ham off the floor because he thought Carl Dumas dropped it, but it was actually there from a group

地板，只要你在五秒钟内把它捡起来，它还是可以吃的。 最近有人想出了一个新花样：你可以从地上捡起一块食物，即使你不是真正把它掉在地上的人。 这样我已经损失了两块巧克力饼干和一块软糖了。 不过，这项新规定也引发了一些其他问题。 昨天，弗雷迪·哈拉汉吃了一块从地上掉下来的火腿因为他以为是卡尔·杜马斯掉在地上的，但实际上那是一群人留下的

that had lunch BEFORE us. It might've even been there from before that, because Freddie started to feel sick and ended up in the nurse's office for the rest of the day. Something tells me they don't have the Five-Second Rule at the table Abigail used to sit at, or probably any of the OTHER girl's tables, either. Another thing I'll bet they don't have is French Fry Fridays. They serve burgers in the cafeteria every Friday, but the meat is grey and taste like a wet sponge. PLUS, they serve sweet potato fries now instead of regular french fries. But Nolan Tiago's mom works part-time in the library, and every Friday she brings Nolan a cheeseburger and fries from the fast-food place on

比我们先吃午饭的人。甚至可能在那之前就有了，因为弗雷迪开始感到不舒服，最后在护士办公室呆了一整天。 直觉告诉我，阿比盖尔以前坐过的桌子上没有五秒规则，其他女孩坐过的桌子上可能也没有。 我敢打赌他们没有的另一样东西是炸薯条星期五。 他们每周五在自助餐厅供应汉堡，但肉是灰色的，尝起来像湿海绵。 另外，他们现在供应红薯薯条，而不是普通的薯条。 但诺兰·蒂亚戈的妈妈在图书馆做兼职，每周五她都会从快餐店给诺兰带来芝士汉堡和薯条