Ann M Martin

"As the newest member of the BSC, Dawn is eager to prove herself. So when a big job comes along, she jumps at the chance to show everyone what she's made of. The Barretts are even more challenging than Dawn expected. The house is a mess. Mrs. Barrett is unreliable, and the kids are out of control. Dawn knows she's a great baby-sitter, but this is impossible! She only knows one thing for sure--a member of the BSC never gives up!"--Page 4 of cover.

One of the Baby-sitters discovers an old diary in an antique trunk in Stacey's attic. The diary belonged to a girl who lived in Stacey's house in the 1890s and says there may be ghosts in the house.

At long last, Dawn's mother and Mary Anne's father have decided to get married!

The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters!

It's BSC road trip time! Two RVs are parked in front of Claudia's house. Dawn's dad, Mr. Schafer, will drive one. Watson Brewer, Kristy's stepdad, will pilot the other. The plan? Mr. Schafer and his bunch will take a northern route to California, while Watson's crowd heads south. Every passenger gets to pick a special stop along the way. The destinations? For starters,...

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.

The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters!

Stacey can't wait! Her best friend from New York, Laine Cummings, is coming to Stoneybrook for a whole week. She can spend a day at SMS, attend club meetings, and maybe go to the Valentine Dance.But from the minute Laine arrives, nothing goes as planned. She thinks Stacey's sleepover with her friends is childish, and can't believe Stacey's still into baby-sitting.

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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.

Dawn gets a special job through the WE—Kids Club, keeping twelve-year-old Whitney, who has Down's Syndrome, company.

When the Baby-sitters are assigned jobs at Washington Mall for a school class, they soon learn of some pretty bad things going on. Is it safe to shop at Washington Mall anymore? The Baby-sitters don't know — but they're going to make sure this mystery is solved!

Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose's obsessions, her rules, and the other things that make her different – not her teachers, not other kids, and not her single father.
When a storm hits their rural town, rivers overflow,

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