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* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The whole plotline about Stacey's diabetes and the associated stigma leading to her moving away from New York lest she lose all her friends. In retrospect, the series' origins in the late eighties makes it likely the diabetes stood in for [[The Disease That Shall Not Be Named|something else]].
* [[Drunk Driver]]: One of their classmates, Amelia, is killed by a drunk driver in ''Mary Anne and the Memory Garden''.
** Abby's father was killed by a drunk driver prior to her series debut. According to ''Abby's Book,'' his death is the reason their mom moves Abby and Anna to Stoneybrook in the first
* [[Egg Sitting]]: One book focuses on this.
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: Dawn's middle name is Read. Figure that one out.
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* [[MacGuffin]]: In some of the ''Mysteries'' books
* [[Massive-Numbered Siblings]]: The Pikes have eight children, including identical triplets. The Brewer-Thomases and the Barrett-DeWitts are also examples of this trope, although they are blended families.
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: Appears pretty much whenever the girls deal with something weird. They usually get a mundane explanation that covers
** Also, the first book in the Little Sister series, where the only undebunked evidence Karen has at the end is that she saw the lady she thinks is a witch flying on a broom... and that might have been a dream.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: This is most likely completely unintentional, but [[Butt Monkey|"Mallory"]] is Norman French for "unlucky".
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** [[Lampshaded]] in ''Here Come the Bridesmaids!'' where the narrator acknowledges that both the BSC and the W♥KC have a regular sitting charge named Ryan DeWitt, and no, they're not related.
* [[New Year's Resolution]]
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Several, although Mary Anne's cat Tigger is probably the most frequently
* [[No Periods, Period]]: It's plausible for a thirteen-year-old girl not to have started her period yet, which makes a reasonable justification for the trope, but it's decidedly less plausible that ''none'' of them would have started menstruating by that age.
** Presumably it's not mentioned because the target age range for the books was a bit younger than thirteen, and they didn't want to freak out the kids (or their parents). One has to wonder, though, how it was deemed allowable to mention bras and bra shopping.
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