Ann M. Martin
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Series
Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Hattie Owen prefers to be steeped in the familiarity of her small-town life rather than think about the vast world beyond her own. During the summer that Hattie turns 12, her world is turned upside down with the startling arrival of an uncle no one has ever spoken about.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister!
Karen feels like an ugly duckling. She already has to wear glasses, and now her baby teeth are starting to come out, too. Fortunately, she knows exactly what will make her look glamorous — a new haircut.
But the beauty parlor lady cuts Karen's hair all wrong! Karen is devastated and worried about what the kids
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Pub. Date
2023
Formats
Description
A brand-new Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adapted by National Book Award longlister and Eisner-nominated cartoonist Ellen T. Crenshaw!
Stacey is so excited! Her friends from The Baby-sitters Club are coming to New York City for a long weekend. It's going to be perfect — a party and a sleepover on Friday night, a big baby-sitting job on Saturday, and lots of sightseeing throughout.
But it turns out that the baby-sitters
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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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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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Everybody used to love Karen. She was cute. She was the little sister. But now baby Emily is in their family, and Karen feels left out. Then Emily gets sick and everybody has to take care of her. Even Karen. And that's when Karen finds out that being a big sister is the most fun of all!" -- Back cover.
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Ashley thinks Claudia has artistic talent and should spend more time on her "calling" and forget about the Babysitters Club. Claudia has to decide between the Baby-sitters Club and Ashley.
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A discarded chain letter augers a series of bad events for Mary Anne, who is plagued by bad luck and a threatening note demanding a midnight meeting on Old Man Sutcliff's grave.
10) The Doll People
Author
Series
Doll people volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor.
11) Rain reign
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Struggling with Asperger's, Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it means leaving her routines in order to search for her pet.
13) Belle Teal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Belle Teal Harper's entrance into fifth-grade in the early 1960s brings many changes and challenges as her Gran's memory begins to slip, her mom spends long hours away at work, and her class gets two new students, including an African-American boy who is caught in the middle of the fight over desegregation.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"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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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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The members of the Baby-sitters Club think they can handle a young practical joker, but when one of her tricks causes Claudia to break her leg, the girls know they must teach their new charge a lesson.
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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Each member of the Baby-sitters Club sponsors a different girl in the Little Miss Stoneybrook competition, as Dawn also tries to cope with the break-up of her family after her parents are divorced.
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
"Claudia has a sad goodbye to make. Her grandmother, Mimi, has just died. Claudia understands that Mimi was sick for a long time, but she's still mad at her grandmother for leaving her. Who will help Claudia with her homework . . . and share "special tea" with her? To keep from thinking about Mimi, Claudia spends all her free time painting and baby-sitting. She's even teaching an art class for some of the kids in the neighborhood. Claudia knows she...