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The first of the new Collector's Club Editions features a new logo, bright new cover, and fill-in pages to personalize as Kristy comes up with the idea for the Baby-sitter's Club with friends Claudia, Stacey, and Mary Anne.
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Poor Stacey. She's moved to a new town. She's still coming to terms with her diabetes. She's facing baby-sitting problems left and right. And her parents are no help. Luckily, Stacey has three new, true friends -- Kristy, Claudia, and Mary Anne. Together they're the BSC -- and they will deal with whatever's thrown their way... even if it's a rival baby-sitting club!
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When a fight breaks out among the members of the Babysitters Club, timid Mary Anne finds herself becoming more assertive as a baby sitter and in her relationships with her father and friends.
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As a new member of the Baby-sitters Club, Dawn tries to win the acceptance of the club's president by tackling a tough babysitting job.
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Participating as a bridesmaid in her mother's second wedding, Kristy struggles with mixed feelings about her new stepfather and wonders how her life will change, especially when several new siblings are added to the mix. Reissue.
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Fighting with her genius older sister, Claudia is furious when Janine criticizes the Baby-sitters Club and otherwise makes her feel inferior, but when Grandmother Mimi has a stroke, the sisters must bury the hatchet. Reissue.
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Baby-sitting for the Pike family at the Jersey shore, Stacey and Mary Anne anticipate two weeks of sun, sand, and boys, and when Stacey falls for a cute lifeguard, Mary Anne winds up doing the work of two baby-sitters. Reissue.
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Wondering at the spooky noises she hears whenever she is at home, Dawn becomes convinced that her house is haunted when she discovers a secret passage, and the baby-sitters turn their attentions to ghost hunting. Reissue.
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Mary Anne's budding new relationship with adorable boy baby-sitter Logan is complicated when she recommends him to the other members of the Baby-sitters club for extraneous jobs. Reissue.
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Moving into a mansion of a house after her mother marries a millionaire, Kristy misses living next door to her best friends and clashes with the snobby local children, who make fun of Kristy and her old dog, Louie. Reissue.
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Befriending newcomer Ashley Wyeth, an artistic girl whose wacky creative tastes rival Claudia's own, Claudia is tempted to spend less time with the Baby-sitters Club in order to devote more energy to her art. Reissue.
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Devastated by the news that Stacey will be leaving Stoneybrook and the Baby-sitters Club to move back to New York, Claudia and the other club members plan a going-away party and wonder how they will fill their friend's position. Reissue.
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Recently enlisted by her former baby-sitters as the newest member of their club, Mallory resents their overly critical appraisals of her first jobs and decides to form her own sitter service with her best friend, Jesse. Reissue.
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Assisting her two young charges to prepare for the upcoming Little Miss Stoneybrook pageant, Dawn finds trouble when her fellow baby-sitters begin helping other little girls to compete in the pageant. Reprint.
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Learning American Sign Language from young Matt Braddock, the club's newest charge, Jessi is swept up in local efforts to introduce sign language to the many interested children and prepares a special surprise for Matt. Reissue.
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Baby-sitter Mary Anne experiences a string of bad luck that begins when she throws away a mysterious chain letter, and she wonders if the chain letter is causing her misfortune. Reprint.
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Thinking she made a mistake in inviting her fellow club members to a weekend in New York City, Stacey is dismayed by the fights that break out, but the trip proves successful during a gala evening at a Broadway show. Reissue.
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The Baby-sitters experience a difficult time with Betsy Sobak, who is a master practical joker, but when a joke with a swing causes Claudia to break her leg, the prankster learns her lesson. Reissue.
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Kristy and the other club members gather together all the enthusiastic young kids in the neighborhood to form the Krushers softball team, which is complemented by the very klutzy Jackie and challenged by the Bashers team. Reissue.
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An expert with her triplet brothers, baby-sitter Mallory thinks that identical twins Marilyn and Carolyn will be a breeze until the mischievous duo prove more troublesome than she expected. Reissue.
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Receiving a desperate call from the Mancusi family, Jessi takes on an unusual sitting job caring for three dogs, five cats, two birds, a cage of hamsters, guinea pigs, fish, a snake, rabbits, and turtles. Reissue.
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Visiting her father on the west coast, Dawn is tempted to stay with him when she enjoys the beach, Disneyland, and a wealth of healthy restaurants, but the homesick baby-sitter fears leaving her mother and all of her friends. Reissue.
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Devising a kid-free day off for all the hardworking mothers in Stoneybrook, Kristy and the rest of the Baby-sitters Club are pleased by the successful day, which concludes with a big surprise for Kristy. Reissue.
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The members of the Baby-sitters Club come to the rescue to help Mary Anne search for her beloved kitten, Tigger, who has suddenly vanished. Reprint.
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Claudia has a hard time dealing with her beloved grandmother's death and it isn't until she pours out all her emotions to her sister that she feels able to smile again.
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Derek, a young actor originally from Stoneybrook, is moving back! He's one of the stars on the hot new TV sit-com P.S. 162. But even stars need baby-sitters, and Jessi is the lucky one to get the job.
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In the painful aftermath of her parent's divorce, Stacey, who is struggling with the challenges of her diabetes, makes the difficult decision to live near her Baby-sitter Club friends rather than in the city. Reprint."
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A long-hidden message helps Mallory and the Baby-sitters Club solve an old mystery about Stacey's house, which they believe to be haunted. Reissue."
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At long last, Dawn's mother and Mary Anne's father have decided to get married!.
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Kristy believes that the autistic child she sits for is normal enough to attend special ed classes at school. After a while though she realizes that Susan would be better off with children like herself.
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One of a series of stories that revolve around the babysitter's club. Claudia is so unlike her sister, Janine, and she doesn't take after either of her parents. She begins to wonder, is she really who she thinks she is? Or has she been adopted?
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Mary Anne and Stacey are in Sea City working as mother's helpers for the Pike family. When each of the girls meets up with her boyfriend from last summer, things start to get complicated.
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When Jessi's mom goes back to work, Aunt Cecilia moves in with the Ramseys to help out. Jessi is mortified that she has a baby-sitter and can't stand her aunt's bossy ways.
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It's time for tea, and Ben's sister Emmy is missing. When Ben goes looking for her, he encounters a variety of friends, including a duck, a rabbit, and a dragon. Each helpful friend joins Ben in his search and brings along a tasty snack for tea. Clever die-cut windows add a unique element of surprise to the story. Full color throughout.
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Mallory's dad has just lost his job. The Pike kids have decided to help out, so Mallory takes a babysitting job in Kristy's rich neighborhood. But being around the Delaneys only makes Mallory feel poor. There must be something the baby-sitters can do to make her feel better!
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Claudia has finally gotten an A on a math test. She's thrilled . . . until the teacher accuses her of cheating off Shawna's test. CLaudia would never cheat! But is doesn't make sense that Shawna (who is a good student) would need to copy from Claudia. Can the baby-sitters help Caludia clear her name?
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Mary Anne feels she and Logan have been spending too much time together. They fight over silly things and Mary Anne never has any time to herself. Finally, she sadly realizes what she must do: break up with Logan. The Baby-sitters are shocked!.
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Jessie receives threatening phone calls after obtaining the lead in her dance school's latest ballet.
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Part of the "Babysitters" series, this book features Stacey - who has to face up to a problem when she babysits for some friends.
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Dawn organizes a huge fundraiser to help out a Native American elementary school. As a reward to all the kids who helped, Dawn throws a massive sleepover in the gym. It's a baby-sitting job she'll never forget.
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Stoneybrooke is having a baby parade. So, of course, Kristy wants the baby-sitters to build a float. All they need to do is round up the babies they baby-sit, dress them up, and put them on a float. Easy, right? Wrong. The float turns out awful, the outfits are horrible, and the babies won't cooperate!
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Mary Anne begins to have second thoughts about having told Logan to cool their relationship.
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When Jessi volunteeers to help supervise the Kids Can Do Anything Club, she meets nine-year-old Danielle who, although very sick with cancer, faces her future with courage and hope.
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When Claudia first meets seven-year-old Rosie Wilder, she is impressed. Rosie can sing, act, dance, play piano and more. But Rosie is obsessed with practicing--and showing off. It looks like baby-sitting for a genius may be too much for Claudia to handle!
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Dawn is finally going to meet Logan's cousin, Lewis. But while Mary Anne is planning the perfect double date, Dawn is getting really nervous. She's never had a boyfriend before. Then she decides the only way to impress Lewis is with a whole new image. Will Lewis and the baby-sitters like the new Dawn?
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When her best friend Laine comes to Stoneybrook for a visit, Stacey realizes that life in New York City may have changed Laine for the worse, making her too mature and snobby for her own good.
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Mary Anne and Logan play pretend parents to an egg "baby" for their Modern Living class.
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Unhappy with things as they are at Stoneybrook Middle School, Kristy decides to run for eighth grade class president, but the pressures of keeping up her grades, baby-sitting, and hitting the campaign trail may prove to be too much for her.
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Excited about the professional riding lessons her parents have agreed to pay for, horse-loving Mallory begins neglecting her friends in the Baby-sitters' Club and soon learns that loving horses and caring for them are two different things.
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Worried about the fate of the planet, environmentally conscious Dawn makes plans to construct a recycling center at Stoneybrook Middle School, but soon all her hard work begins to keep her from paying attention to her friends.
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Feeling torn by her parents' divorce, Stacey yearns to have a normal life, but the possibility for this becomes even more doubtful when both her parents' request her help.
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The rest of the Baby-sitters are shocked when Mary Anne, tired of being a plain Jane, gets a chic new haircut and a new wardrobe, and their reaction enrages the excited Mary Anne.
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Jessi discovers that one of the girls in her dance class is anorexic. A sensitive look at a common problem among teenage girls.
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The Papadakis family takes in a foster child, a troubled young girl named Lou, and Kristy soon discovers that Lou's difficult behavior makes her a real challenge to baby-sit.
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Stacey falls in love with the student teacher filling in for Mr.
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Mary Anne agrees to do some housework for Mrs. Towne, an elderly neighbor who had been giving her sewing lessons, but Mary Anne soon realizes that she has become a maid.
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With Dawn in California and Mallory out sick, the Baby-sitters Club must recruit a new member, but the girls begin to wonder if the new girl they have selected fits the bill.
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When Mallory discovers that she has mono, she is crushed that she must stay in bed for a long time, and the baby-sitters wonder what they will do without her.
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Stacey starts dating a jock basketball player and falls in with a super-cool crowd, including the cheerleaders who ask her to try out for the squad.
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Wishing that she had a boyfriend, Claudia starts a personals column in the school newspaper in the hope of finding the ""perfect boy.""
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When Mary Anne tries to get Jenny Prezzioso, a fussy little girl known as ""Miss Priss,"" to join a kickball team, she faces opposition from the kids and from Jenny, who does not want to play.
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When Kristy reluctantly takes part in a hazing prank for her softball team, she worries that her little stepsister, Karen, will find out the truth and think badly of her.
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Jessi learns a hard lesson about being deliberately cruel to another person when she sings a song mocking Mr. Trout, the shy, geeky teacher who wears a bad toupee.
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Stacey's vacation is full of mishaps when she tells one litle lie which leads to another and another and another.
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Accepting a job as companion to a twelve-year-old girl with Down's Syndrome, Dawn finds an unexpected friend in Whitney, and struggles with the fear that Whitney may not understand if she learns that Dawn is being paid to be with her.
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When Claudia's wacky Aunt Peaches moves to Stoneybrook, full of fun and expecting a baby, Claudia thinks she will have the time of her life, until one of Peaches's antics gets Claudia in trouble and a fight ends in tragedy.
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Hoping to provide a male role model for a new charge whose parents' divorce has him missing his father, Mary Anne invites Logan to accompany her baby-sitting jobs and has a lot of explaining to do when Mrs. Kuhn does not understand.
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Worrying about her stepfather after a heart attack forces him to quit his job for a less stressful lifestyle, Kristy wonders if Nanny's departure, an outbreak of the flu, and the arrival of Karen and Andrew will disturb the peace.
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Danielle's parents are so glad she is home, although still battling leukemia, that they allow the nine-year-old girl to do anything she wants--but she decides to joyride in the family car while Jessi is babysitting for her.
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Stacy finds herself caught between loyalty to old friends who suddenly seem immature and her boyfriend Robert and new friends--and forced to make a choice that could mean quitting the Baby-sitters Club.
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When School Spirit month at Stoneybrook Middle School begins to get out of hand, Dawn openly refuses to participate despite the rejection she endures from her classmates, and only her fellow Baby-sitters can lend support.
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Nursing her wounded feelings after a big fight with Stacey, Claudia enters a contest to host a kids' radio show for one month and is delighted when she wins until she learns that she will be working with a rival art student.
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Running a day camp with her fellow club members, Mary Anne finds her ideal summer complicated by her father's two-week business trip, rivalries among the young campers, and a sprained ankle.
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Separating from the Baby-sitters Club after a big fight, Stacey gets a part-time job at a department store, where she befriends a group of fun-loving, music-crazy girls whom Stacey fears may hang a bit too close to the wild side.
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The Baby-sitters are in double trouble when the sponsor for Kristy's softball team, a diaper company, wants to re-name the team ""The Davis Diapers,"" and overbooking on the business end of things makes the club swear in a new member.
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Trying to help her hard-working mother and twin sister to adjust to life in Stoneybrook after her dad dies in a car accident, Abby Stevenson becomes the newest member of the Baby-sitters Club and shares her first adventure.
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Writing a Thanksgiving play for the third-grade class she coaches, Claudia is disappointed when some parents object to her less-than-traditional themes, and she must choose between letting the other kids down or fighting censorship.
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Loving the holiday season but hating its commercialism, Mallory coordinates an old-fashioned family Christmas of baking and trimming that attracts media attention, but Mallory begins to fear that the chaotic film crews will spoil her plans.
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Learning that her friend and English partner Amelia Freeman has died in a tragic accident during spring break, a devastated Mary Anne is unable to overcome her sorrow and decides to do something special to remember her friend.
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Taking on task after task in her willingness to please the well-paying Cheplin family, baby-sitter Stacey experiences an elated sense of achievement, until her jobs interfere with the rest of her schedule.
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When Kristy's friend, Bart, decides that he wants to be her real boyfriend, Kristy is afraid to tell him that she does not feel the same and enlists the help of Mary Anne for courage in expressing herself.
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Preparing for her Bat Mitzvah with her twin sister, Abby is falsely accused of cheating on a math test and suspended from school, and she decides to hide the truth about the test and the suspension.
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Claudia is so delighted by the arrival of her newborn cousin, the firstborn daughter of her favorite Aunt Peaches, that she volunteers to help and becomes more than a bit of a nuisance when she offers a wealth of child-care advice.
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Summertime in Stoneybrook find the members of the Baby-sitters Club overwhelmed by client demands and a forthcoming trip to Hawaii, a situation that results in the enlistment of three unlikely sitters-in-training.
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Hired for a week-long baby-sitting job in New York City, Stacey finds her enthusiasm quelled by her boyfriend's strange behavior and begins to fear that he may be seeing another girl.
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In the landmark one-hundredth book in the series, which comes packaged with a friendship bracelet, Kristy disbands the club because of a combination of outside pressures and internal tension.
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When her troubles in school culminate in her being dropped back to the seventh grade, Claudia struggles with feelings of failure while adjusting to classmates outside of the Baby-sitters Club.
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Hired as the temporary companion to young Victoria Kent, who is distantly in line for the British throne, Mary Anne has trouble getting the girl, who has experienced too many partings, to open up to her.
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Jessi's Christmas and Kwanzaa seasons are overshadowed by a car accident in which Jessi's baby brother, Squirt, is injured, and the difficult time proves challenging to her family's holiday spirit.
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Trying to cheer up her twin Anna, who has been diagnosed with scoliosis, Abby fears that the condition is driving them apart when Anna seems to not want Abby's help and begins to do things on her own.
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Joining the Mathletes and feeling confident after her first math meet triumph, Stacey is troubled when her father gets tickets to a huge rock concert on the same night of the Mathletes championship.
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Having adjusted to the seventh grade with flying colors, Claudia becomes so popular that she is elected Queen of the class, but her efforts to be a good representative are complicated by Mark, the unmotivated class king.
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Asking her older brother Charlie to train her softball team over spring break, Kristy is satisfied that Charlie is a great coach, until he meets Angelica and is no longer able to keep his attention on the kids.
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Mallory is delighted when the subject of the new Short Takes class turns out to be children's literature, but she is bitterly disappointed by the new young teacher, Mr. Cobb, who unintentionally favors the boys in the class, until Mallory decides to stand up for her rights.
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Mary-Anne's life is turned upside down when the Club members participate in a scary intensive first aid class and Logan's parents decide to send him to a boarding school. Original."
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When soccer season comes to Stoneybrook, Abby joins a Special Olympics Unified Sports soccer team but develops a fierce rivalry with another player. Original."
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Despite her busy fall schedule, Stacey takes on the project of helping the fashion clueless newcomer Tess to become better educated about clothing and makeup, but the well-meaning baby-sitter is soon frustrated by Tess's resistance. Original."
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When baby-sitting at Shannon Kilbourne's house, Kristy must manage to stop the "war" between Shannon and her sisters, Tiffany and Maria.
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During a Christmas shopping spree, Mary Anne racks up a large debt on her father's credit card. Baby-sitting won't cover the charges so she takes a secret job as a department store elf to pay her father back Ages 8-12. Pub: 12/97. .
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After a thrilling three-week dance program in New York City, Jessi is invited to join the Dance NY education program full-time. Is she ready to leave Stonybrook and all her friends behind? (Digest)
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Everyone in the Baby-sitters Club remembers Lou McNally as the worst kid ever. But now she's back and, to Abby's surprise, acting a little too perfect. (Digest) .
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In one of the strongest Babysitters Club books ever, the club must deal with a client who is abusive toward his children. Ann M. Martin addresses a difficult and important topic in her characteristic sensitive and informed style. (Digest) .
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Kristy's newest sitting job is challenging. Ten-year-old Erin was recently blinded in an accident and is not ready to rely on people. At the same time, Kristy's family is training a puppy to be a guide dog.
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Stacey and Robert had a stormy breakup. Months later, Robert is moody and depressed, and the only person he'll talk to about it is Stacey.
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Stoneybrook is going to have its own playground camp this summer, and six counseling jobs are up for grabs. When nine BSC members apply, the competition heats up to the boiling point! .
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When Abby spends a week with her grandparents at their summer house, she learns wonderful things about her family for the first time, as well as one piece of unhappy news.
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Back-to-school brings an exciting new challenge for Kristy. She's been selected to be a teacher for a week! Team-teaching a gym class with her arch rival, Cary Retlin, Kristy learns a few lessons she never knew she needed.
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Claudia's loving the October weather and her many friends, both in school and in the BSC. But when she throws a party to bring her two groups of pals together, she creates more problems than she solves.
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When Stacey sits for the two Brooke kids, she can't help noticing that their dad is a very cute single father, and the perfect match for her single mom.
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Mallory is going away to boarding school, but her best friend Jessi doesn't want her to go. It's the biggest fight in BSC history--and Mary Anne is caught in the middle!.
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In a breakthrough book for the series, Mallory says good-bye to Stoneybrook and hello to the Riverbend School. The boarding school in the Berkshires introduces Mallory to a new group of friends--and a not-so-friendly roommate.
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Valentine's Day is Abby's least favorite holiday. Mushy stuff like valentines, red hearts, and a school dance turn her into a Valentine's Scrooge. When Ross Brown, a perfectly nice guy in Abby's English class, invites her to the dance, Abby tries to set him up with her twin sister, Anna.
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Kristy's up for the best spring vacation ever--a week of baseball with famous major leaguers at Bill Bain's Dream Camp. Together with her stepdad, Kristy enjoys the all-star week of a lifetime.
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As part of her exciting film course, Stacey is making a documentary about teen life in Stoneybrook. The movie creates a conflict with friendships when Stacey pursues tell-all interviews with her friends and enemies.
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The Baby-Sitters Club series is about a group of girls that start a club. A baby-sitting club. Duhh. It's about friendship, and how people are different and a lot of other nice things. Good for tween girls. Or guys, I guess.
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