Baby-sitters Club. Original series
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"When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club--a chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they each love to do--she has no idea how much the club will change everything. Crank calls, uncontrollable toddlers, wild pets, untruthful clients . . . running a business is hard work! Kristy and her co-founders, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey, are sure they can handle anything. But only if they stick...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 2
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When Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, and Stacey, the members of the Baby-sitters Club, each receive mysterious calls while they are working, they decide to find out who is responsible.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 3
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Stacey, a member of the Baby-sitters Club, learns to cope with her diabetes and her overprotective parents.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 5
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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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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 6
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Kristy's mom is getting married, and Kristy's a bridesmaid. The only trouble is, fourteen little kids are coming to the wedding, and they all need baby-sitters. Stacey, Claudia, Mary Anne, Dawn, and Kristy think they can handle fourteen kids. But that's before they spend five days changing diapers, stopping fights, solving mix-ups, righting wrongs ... and getting sick and tired of baby-sitting. One thing's for sure: this is a hectic way to have a...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 7
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"Claudia's sister, Janine, is too busy being smart to be nice to anyone--even their grandmother, Mimi. But Claudia doesn't have to see Janine too much this summer, since the Baby-sitter's Club is starting a new play group. It's going to be so much fun! But then Mimi has a stroke, and the whole summer changes. Now Claudia is 'Mimi-sitting,' and Janine is no help at all. How can the Kishi sisters get along when Janine is always so mean?"-- Provided...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 8
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The Pike family is taking a vacation to the beach, and Stacey and Mary Anne get to go along to help out! Two weeks of sun, sand, and the cutest lifeguard Stacey has ever seen! Mary Anne says that Scott the lifeguard is way too old for Stacey, and besides, she shouldn't be ignoring the Pike kids to spend more time with a boy. But Stacey is in love. What could possibly be more important than following her heart?
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 9
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Dawn is sure there's a ghost in her house and so are the other baby-sitters. But they're so busy with their baby-sitting jobs that they hardly have time for a ghost hunt. Will the mystery ever be solved?
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 10
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"It used to be that Mary Anne's dad was really strict, but not anymore. Mary Anne's been growing up ... but that's not the only big news for the Baby-sitters Club. There's a new boy in school named Logan Bruno, and he likes Mary Anne! He has a dreamy Southern accent, he's awfully cute--and he wants to join the Baby-sitters Club. The Baby-sitters aren't sure Logan will make a good club member. And Mary Anne thinks she's too shy for Logan. Life in the...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 11
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When her mother's remarriage takes her family into a much wealthier neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Kristy finds herself surrounded by snobbish girls who compare clothes, make fun of the Baby-sitters Club, and insult her aging dog.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 12
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"Claudia has always been the most outrageous kid in her class...until Ashley Wyeth comes along, Ashley's really different--she wears hippie clothes, has six holes in her ears, and is the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met. Ashley says Claudia has artistic talent, too. She thinks Claudia should spend more time on her "calling" and forget about the Baby-sitters Club: It's just a waste of time. The Baby-sitters are sick of Ashley Wyeth, and...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 13
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"How do you say good-bye to your very best friend?"--Page 1 of cover.
Oh, no! Stacey McGill is moving back to New York! That means no more Stoneybrook Middle School, no more Charlotte Johanssen, and worst of all...no more Baby-sitters Club! Stacey's friends are crushed when they hear that Stacey's moving, Claudia most of all. Stacey was her first best friend. How will the Baby-sitters cope without Stacey? What kind of going-away present is good enough...
14) Hello, Mallory
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 14
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Mallory Pike has always wanted to be a member of the Baby-sitters Club. The Baby-sitters are so much fun to be around, and so grown-up. Now the club members have invited Mallory to a meeting. This might be her big chance! But the Baby-sitters don't make it easy. First Claudia makes Mal feel like a baby on her first official baby-sitting job. Then they give her a written test--with questions nobody could answer! Mallory's beginning to think she doesn't...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 15
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Dawn's a little jealous when there's a formal ceremony to welcome Jessi and Mallory into the Baby-sitters Club. Don't people know that Dawn's a special baby-sitter too? Then it's Dawn's turn to shine. Mrs. Pike wants Dawn to help prepare Margo and Claire for the Little Miss Stoneybrook contest. So what if Margo's only talent is peeling a banana with her feet? Dawn's going to help her charges win that contest any way she can. The only trouble is...Kristy,...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 16
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Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 17
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When Mary Anne suffers from a run of bad luck after throwing away a chain letter, her Baby-sitters Club friends try to help.
18) Stacey's mistake
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 18
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"Stacey's invited her friends from the Baby-sitters Club down to New York City for a long weekend. But what a mistake! The Baby-sitters are way out of place in the big city. Mary Anne sounds like a walking guide book; Dawn's afraid of everything; Kristy can't keep her mouth shut; and Claudia's jealous of Stacey's friends. Does this mean Stacey can't be the Baby-sitters' friend anymore? Will the Baby-sitters Club fall apart?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 19
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"Claudia's not worried when she hears her newest baby-sitting charge, Betsy Sobak, is a great practical joker. After all, how much harm can one little girl do? Plenty. Claudia breaks her leg as a result of one of Betsy's mean jokes... and now she's talking about quitting the club. Baby-sitting, she says, is just too dangerous. Kristy thinks Betsy needs to be taught a lesson. She also thinks the Baby-sitters are just the ones to do it. Watch out,...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 20
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When she sees how much her little brother and young stepbrother and stepsister want to play softball, thirteen-year-old Kristy starts her own team, which makes up in spirit what it lacks in skill.
Kristy's starting her own ragtag softball team! Kristy's Krushers will probably never be champions-- Jackie Rodowsky, walking disaster, is playing for them. But nobody has more team spirit than Jackie! When Bart's Bashers challenge them to a game. Will...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 21
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Eleven-year-old Mallory finds a real challenge in babysitting for the troublesome Arnold twins.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 22
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Eleven-year-old Jessi copes with pet sitting for the Mancusi family and serious dissension among the members of the Baby-sitters Club.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 23
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Since her parents' divorce, Dawn lives in Connecticut with her mother while her brother and father are in California, but after a week's vacation in sunny, healthy southern California, Dawn isn't sure she wants to return to the East Coast.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 24
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Kristy and the Baby-sitters Club plan a huge outing as a Mother's Day surprise for their clients, while Kristy's mother and stepfather have a surprise of their own in store for their family.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 25
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Mary Anne is desperate to find her missing kitten, Tigger, so the Baby-Sitters help her with her search, but in the meantime the children for whom Mary Anne babysits develop inexplicable allergies.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 26
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Claudia has always been close to her grandmother, Mimi, so she needs the help of her friends in the Baby-sitters Club to deal with Mimi's death.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 27
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Jessi counts on her friends in the Baby-sitters Club as she prepares for ballet auditions and tries to help a young television star adjust to being the new boy in school.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 28
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When her parents decide to get a divorce, Stacey must choose between staying in New York with her father or moving back to Stoneybrook with her mother.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 29
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While helping Stacey move back into her house in Stoneybrook, Mallory and Claudia find an old trunk containing the diary of a girl who lived in Stacey's house in the 1890's.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 30
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Best friends Mary Anne and Dawn are ecstatic to discover that Dawn's mother and Mary Anne's father are planning to get married.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 31
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Dawn and Mary Anne are good friends, but when they become stepsisters, their relationship undergoes some changes.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 32
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Thinking it unfair that her new baby-sitting charge Susan gets treated differently because she is autistic, Kristy decides to change that situation.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 33
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Thirteen-year-old Claudia concludes that she is adopted since she sees no resemblance between herself and her brainy older sister whom she rivals.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 34
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While babysitting during a vacation at the beach, thirteen-year-old Mary Anne realizes that boys can really make life complicated for her and her girl friends.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 35
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The Baby-sitters Club investigates the terrible noises coming from the old Hennessey place, which is sitting on top of a graveyard and may be haunted.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 36
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Jessi, who feels that she is old enough to take care of herself, is humiliated when strict and bossy Aunt Cecelia moves in to control her life and interfere with the Baby-sitters Club.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 37
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Members of the Baby-sitters Club are determined not to let Dawn get hurt by her new boyfriend Travis, who is older and always telling her what to do.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 38
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Kristy needs the help of the Baby-sitters Club to find out who is sending her mysterious notes, which are mushy at first but then start getting weird and creepy.
39) Poor Mallory!
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 39
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Mallory, whose family is suddenly short of money, takes a baby-sitting job and needs the help of the Baby-sitters Club in adjusting to her new employers' wealth.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 40
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Claudia is surprised when her math teacher accuses her of cheating on a test and enlists the rest of the Baby-sitters Club to help her clear her name.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 41
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Shy Mary Anne must decide whether she has to break up with her handsome boyfriend to regain her independence.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 42
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Jessi is thrilled when she earns the lead in her dance school's latest ballet, until someone starts sabotaging her rehearsals and giving her threatening messages.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 43
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Stacey hasn't been feeling well. Her schoolwork and baby-sitting jobs are almost out of control. And Stacey's tired of being in the middle of her parents' fights. Stacey ends up in the hospital because of her diabetes.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 44
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Some of the kids at Stoneybrook Elementary have pen pals at a school in New Mexico. When word comes that the school in New Mexico has burned down, Dawn decides to organize a fund-raiser for the fire victims, and reward generous givers with a gigantic sleepover.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 45
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Kristy gets the great idea of entering a float in the Stoneybrook Baby Parade. It sounded easy, but the float looks like a big orange blob, the costumes are hideous, and the babies won't stop crying.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 46
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Mary Anne begins to have second thoughts about having told Logan to cool their relationship.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 47
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Mallory needs peace and quiet if she's going to win the Young Authors Day Award for Best Overall Fiction in the Sixth Grade, but the only way to get it is to stop babysitting.
48) Jessi's wish
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 48
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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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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 49
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Claudia, the most artistic member of the Baby-sitters Club, has her hands full working on an art project and babysitting for a seven-year-old genius.
50) Dawn's big date
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 50
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Dawn tries to give herself a new image by changing her hair, makeup, clothes, and personality, but then she worries about whether her friends and her penpal Lewis will like the new Dawn.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 51
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Stacey is very excited to learn that Laine, her best friend from New York, is coming to visit Stoneybrook. But the minute Laine arrives, things don't go as planned. Laine is used to hanging out at high school parties and thinks Stacey and her friends are childish.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 52
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Mary Anne babysits for a pair of twins and then she and Logan have to be pretend parents to an egg "baby" for a class. She finds that taking care of a baby isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 53
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Kristy is not too happy with some things at Stoneybrook Middle School, so she decides to run for class president. But can Kristy coach a softball team, get straight A's, baby-sit, run the BSC, and be president? Kristy is not happy with things at Stoneybrook Middle School. She would like to run for president of the eighth grade class. She already coaches softball, gets straight As, baby-sits, runs the BSC, and it's possible that being a class officer...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 56
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New clients, the Lowell's, do not want Claudia for a baby-sitter. The BSC won't rest until they found out the reason why.
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Dawn saves the planet , Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 57
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58) Stacey's choice
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 58
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Stacey's parents are divorced, but they both depend on her. But how can she choose between them, when her mother is home sick, and her father wants her to go with him to the dinner celebrating his promotion to vice-president.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 60
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When Mary Anne sees a picture of a haircut that she really likes, the Baby-sitters don't pay much attention to it. They like good old Mary Anne just the way she is.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 61
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Jessi is one of several volunteers to help teach a ballet class for underprivileged children, where she gets to know Mary better. But Jessi begins to suspect that Mary's diet is causing her to lose too much weight, and she must weigh her friendship against the need to tell someone.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 64
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Dawn's little brother Jeff is visiting from California. She's sure he'll fit in with the new Schafer-Spier family. But things don't go as Dawn planned. Soon the Schafers and the Spiers aren't talking at all. Could this mean divorce for the family?
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 65
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Stacey thinks she's in love with her substitute math teacher.
67) Dawn's big move
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 67
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Dawn's moving back to California. But she'll be back, right?
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Jessi and the bad baby-sitter , Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 68
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 69
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Mallory has mono and must stay in bed. How will the BSC survive without Mallory? Mallory has mononucleosis which means no school, no activities, no baby-sitting, and no Baby-sitters Club. Mallory and the Baby-sitters are crushed.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 75
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Jessi goes along with playing a mean trick on the new teacher, Mr. Trout, even thought she knows it isn't right.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 77
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Dawn has been hired to keep twelve-year-old Whitney company while her parents are out. Whitney, is delighted to have Dawn as her friend. The only problem is Whitney doesn't know her parents are paying Dawn to be with her. What happens if Whitney finds out?
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 82
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Danielle, a leukemia victim, takes advantage of her parents, who allow her to do anything she wants.
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Stacey vs. the BSC , Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 83
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Claudia Kishi, live from WSTO! , Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 85
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 86
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The Baby-sitters are running a day camp for kids in Stoneybrook. Campers will do art projects, go on field trips, and even put on a circus show. Then Mary Anne's father announces that he will be going away for two weeks on business. Great! Mary Anne, Dawn, and Dawn's mother can't wait to be "bachelor girls". But things are not turning out the way Mary Anne had thought. She misses her father a lot. The kids at Camp BSC are choosing sides against...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 87
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This is a different kind of summer for Stacey. Since her fight with the BSC, Stacey's not baby-sitting much, and she doesn't have her best friend Claudia to do things with. So Stacey gets a part-time job at the department store downtown, and she finds a new group of friends. Stacey enjoys hanging out with Jacqui, Sheila, and the other girls. They're serious shoppers, and they're really into music. These girls are fun. A little wild even. But Stacey's...
88) Farewell, Dawn
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 88
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Dawn's been missing California more than ever. Especially now that her best friend in California needs her. Dawn must face the facts : while she loves Connecticut, her heart is telling her to return to California permanently. But it sure isn't easy. It is tough to hear her friends talk about replacing her in the BSC. Even worse, Dawn can't figure out how to break the news to Mary Anne. How can she tell her best friend and stepsister that she wants...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 89
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Kristy feels overwhelmed by the new sponsor for the Krushers, but the new girl on the block likes baseball and kids and may be able to help.