i'm half-tempted to just not recap mary anne books anymore. they are all terrible. the cliff's notes version of this one: it's summertime AGAIN in stoneybrook & there are a few weeks between school letting out & the day camps facilitated by the community center starting up. the bridge the gap, the babysitters club organizes their own day camp, called camp BSC. they decide it will be circus-themed.at the same time, there is some re-organization happening at the law firm for which richard works, &...

UGGGGHHHHHHHHHH Mary Anne why are you such a wet blanket?!?! This would have been a solid BSC book if it were a different narrator and I didn't have to read the B-story of Mary Anne hating bachelorette life while her daddy is on a work trip and moping while Sharon and Dawn have fun.

in this explanation of why I hate mary anne by ghostwriter Nola Thacker, the bsc decides to host a day camp for a couple weeks shortly after school ends. most of the kids have a good time, but four-year-old alicia gianelli has attachment disorder and can't deal with her mom not being there. mary anne is just so sensitive that she coddles alicia completely and thinks all the other baby sitters are cruel for saying that alicia will get over it. meanwhile her dad goes out of town for two weeks on b...

Way too heavy on babysitting plots. I'd really like to punch Karen in the teeth. MA missing her dad was a sweet plot, but kind of out of character for her.

This is yet another book, where the girls watch a large group of kids. This storyline got stale, several dozen books ago. This time, they're doing a circus-themed summer camp. Karen Brewer doesn't think it's as good as another camp she went to last year, so she is a brat and complains the entire time.A four-year-old named Alicia is scared of being separated from her mother, for the first time. She cries and throws tantrums. Mary Anne does the exact same thing, when her dad goes away on a busines...

I hadn't read a BSC book in a while so maybe it's because I forgot how annoying Dawn is, temporarily, but...is Mary Anne worse than Dawn? Alicia is four so it's easy to see why she'd be nervous about not having her mom around but Mary Anne is thirteen and has had her dad go away a million different times. This all felt a little *too* juvenile for me even for a BSC book (also no mention of Mary Anne spraining her ankle, or any of the events of this book, in the first Super Mystery book.)

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Fantastic books for young girls getting into reading!! Great stories about friendship and life lessons. The characters deal with all sorts of situations and often find responsible solutions to problems.I loved this series growing up and wanted to start my own babysitting business with friends. Great lessons in entrepreneurship for tweens.The books may be dated with out references to modern technology but the story stands and lessons are still relevant.Awesome books that girls will love! And the

It never ceases to amaze me that the BSC will voluntarily sign up to spend even more time babysitting - even during their vacation!

This really goes to show why it's not a good idea to not have at least a couple of adults around a larger group of kids (as well-intentioned as the teenagers might be)

This book was kind of annoying. With the start of summer the kids that the BSC care for have a couple weeks gap before summer activities like camp start which seems odd but we needed a plot device so okay. The club forms their own day camp for the kids called camp BSC. The decide on a circus theme. The only issue is the spoiled rich kids from Stoneybrook Day have attended a real circus camp and are spoiled brats about it. Karen Brewer is the worst I truly wanted to slap her for being a more obno...

(LL)This was a fun book and had great ideas for some baby-sitters to use some of the activities from Camp BSC. The idea of Camp BSC is the great idea in itself. However, the lessons in here are kind of repetitive of other books so there isn’t really anything special about this book. As an aside: this book makes Sharon out to be this super slob who doesn’t have any interest in keeping even a remotely clean house while Richard is gone. Like you really didn’t do the dishes for two weeks? Gross, man...

As a kid my best friends sister had the whole BSC series on a book shelf in her room. I thought she was so grown up. And I envied this bookshelf. And would often poke my head into that room just to look at it.And when I read BSC, I felt like such a grown up.And while I might have still been a little too young to understand some of the issues dealt with in these books, I do appreciated that Ann M. Martin tackled age appropriate issues, some being deeper than others, but still important.

As summertime approaches, the sitters know they will be flooded with babysitting requests. They decide to host Camp BSC. One camper, Alicia, is scared to leave her mother; so Mary Anne takes her under her wing. But Mary Anne is having her own problems: her father is out of town for two weeks on a work trip, she feels left out at home, and she sprains her ankle. But as Alicia adjusts to Camp BSC, Mary Anne also realizes she's been acting childish and apologizes for her mistakes.

Mary Anne copes with loneliness and heartbreak. Alicia Gianelli learns about loneliness. Kristy has a great idea-camp BSC. The kids from Stoneybrook Academy have a fight with the kids from the regular elementary. Richard Spier goes on a business trip. Mary Anne is kind of paranoid in this book, but I still liked it. This is Written by my daughter

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Overly sensitive, but way too whiny!!!

I know I read this one, but I don’t have it anymore and I can’t seem to remember anything about it. Ugh... maybe this is the one where Mary Anne’s dad goes away for a week on business? And Mary Anne is so depressed she refuses to do or say anything to Sharon and Dawn, but silently seethes when they enjoy "bachelorette night" activities, like ordering take-out and staying up late watching movies? It’s sort of coming back to me now. If it’s that one, it sucks. Mary Anne is so mopey, and she never,...

I wasn't feeling well again, so grabbed this book at random off my BSC shelf. I don't know why I like this one, but for some reason I always enjoyed the Mopey Mary Anne books. Also, does Alicia ever appear in another book?

The Baby-sitters Club series was my favorite growing up! :)