Today is THE DAY! Kristys mom is finally about to marry Watson. She will become a stepsister to two new siblings. But things get pretty hectic when family and friends come into town to help with the wedding and the babysitters club have 14 children to watch all at once. Hopefully they can stick it out.

The Babysitters Club continues to spin a sugary tale, but it is once again a time capsule of the 80's. TBC has to look after 12(?) children for a week and they get paid $300 all together I believe. That is a modern-day equivalent of nearly $1000 for a few teenage girls! It was strange to read about young ladies taking children around town without any supervision and paying dimes for snacks. I can't quite relate to the time period but I do like all the cutie pies in the club. Some of the children...

Kristy is once more taking the reins( see Book 1 ) and the most pressing thing on her mind is the marriage of her mother, Elizabeth to millionaire, Watson Brewer. The Thomas kids and their mother will be leaving their comfortable neighborhood to live in Watson's mansion and Kristy feels worried about the future. One of my favorite chapters is when Kristy reaches out to older brothers, Charlie and Sam and expresses her fears about the future. I think a lot of young readers would find this totall

Kristy's mom is getting married and kristy is moving to a mansion and for the first time she is wearing heals

This might be my favourite BSC book, but there are so many amazing ones that it's hard for me to choose one. But this book has it all: family, friends, and lots of baby-sitting. Family: I got into the BSC after reading the Karen books, and because I loved Karen so much, it was natural that Kristy was my favourite baby-sitter. (Though it has changed a couple times over the years, I still have a soft spot for her in my heart.) So that could be one of the reasons I love this book, the joining of Ka...

The Ballad of Morbidda Destiny When Midnight crept upon a houseAnd settled in a tree,It cast its shadow on a formThere stooped on bended knee.And Midnight greeted its old friend:The witch called Destiny.She grasped a root with gnarled handAnd pulled it from the ground.Another curs'd ingredientFor magick most profound.An incantation murmured lowCalls devils with its sound.Or that is how you'd hear it toldIf you were so unwiseTo listen to young Karen B.,Whose blond hair and blue eyesAnd cute, p

5th grade, I was a total BabySitters Club addict. I think I read them until I was in 9th grade or something embarrassing. Anyway, THIS particular one was one of my absolute favorites, and I read it a bazillion times. It's the one where Kristy's mom marries Watson, or whatever the hell his name is. See the beatuiful yellow dress?!?!? And the babysitters had all the kids over at once and had to do games and stuff with them. It was like the girls were running their own day camp! One time I took thi...

kristy's mom's wedding, planned for september, has to be moved to july because there is already an offer on the house (not to mention kristy's mom has a work trip to europe in september). the week of the wedding, the bsc has a day care for the 14 kids of adults that are working on the wedding.highlights:-this is the first time the baby-sitters have a large-scale organized baby-sitting project. this happens a lot throughout the series, but this early on it seems nigh impossible until they actuall...

It’s too late for me. I’m totally invested in this series of 100+ books :(.

It’s the first second BSC book! Okay, that sounds really awkward. What I’m trying to say is that each of the five current members of the BSC have told their story in one book and Kristy is the first member to tell the second part of her story. It’s also one of Ann M. Martin’s favourite books of the series.While this wasn’t one of my absolute favourites growing up, I did love it, mostly because it introduced me to Nannie. I love the grandmothers in this series. Nannie is Kristy’s maternal grandmo...

Kristy retakes the narrative here, as her mother finally marries millionaire fiance Watson Brewer. The BSC have their first 'big' booking with all of them looking after 14 children who are linked to the wedding. That's about it. Happy ever after. I will say that I found it odd that Kristy's mother is SO insistent that they must be married before they can all move into the Brewer mansion. She has four kids - she ain't no blushing bride. Also, Karen Brewer is still the most annoying character ever...

dear god, i was OBSESSED with this book when i was a kid. it's all because of the babysitters taking care of fourteen kids for a week. i was really into how they split the kids up by age, & made little color-coded shaped name tags, & each group had age-appropriate activities...everything that appealed to me about this book was what appealed to me about the american girl catalogue. i like things that are organized & logical & collection-oriented. it's hard to explain. of course, time went on & th...

WEDDING STUFF.In the final week before her mother’s wedding, Kristy and the rest of the club hold a 9-to-5 daycare for the children of her visiting relatives. Kristy deals with lingering misgivings about her impending life changes, and serves as a bridesmaid in the wedding.The five-day daycare takes up most of the book, and provides an interesting and unusual structure with plenty of baby-sitting and juicy meta-baby-sitting organizational planning.Highlights: Kristy, Sam, and Charlie have a real...

I am on a quest to revisit my childhood reading favorites. When I was a child, I loved the Babysitters Club books. I devoured them. I read those, along with the Super Specials, Mysteries, Little Sister books, etc. In fact, I still have all of them to this day in paperback. They were such a big part of my love of reading, I could not part with them. So now that they have come out on Audiobook, I had to check them out. As it turns out, I am not too old to enjoy The Baby-sitters Club. It kind of fe...

Yes I read it. Today. Yes I'm a grown-ass woman.I give it five stars as the 10 year old who looooved it and 3 as the 36 year old who recognizes that its pretty decent for its intended audience and time written, but not lacking plot holes.These children they're watching? They have horrible parents. Kristy's mom is kind of a user. You're marrying a millionaire but need to monopolize eight of your closest friends and family's time for the equivalent of a full time work week to make food and decorat...

While I actually started reading around age 3 (thank you, my Granny's Dick and Jane books!), this series is what I remember most about loving to read during my childhood. My sister and I drank these books up like they were oxygen. I truly think we owned just about every single one from every one of the series. We even got the privilege of meeting Ann M. Martin at a book signing, but of course little starstruck me froze and could not speak a word to my biggest hero at that time. Once in awhile if...

Did I really just cry reading this book?Yes. Yes I did.Honestly though, I just love everything about this one!! The BSC taking care of those 14 kids made me realise why I was always so obsessed with doing summer activities with my own cousin. I think this is the book I’m most excited to see adapted next to Mary Anne Saves the Day!

This one was fun because the club practically runs a daycare for a week with all the kids in town for Kristy's mom's and stepdad's wedding. I had trouble keeping the various charges straight though. Lots of opportunities for discussion of wedding traditions and best babysitting practices.

Rereading BSC books, which sparked my ~love for reading~! For this one, I enjoyed getting to know Kristy again, and following the change (her mom remarrying!) in her life.I loved the BSC growing up, and have decided to re-read (or read for the first time) some of the books in the series. Which of the members are you most like? :)

My daughters review: This book was so good!! First part: regular old day, kristy’s Mom is dating and the school year is ending. Then the next part is a kristy’s-great-idea because her mom wants to have a wedding and so kristy and her babysitter club friends will babysit the kids coming to the wedding. Fast forward a few chapters and they’re babysitting. Lots of things happen— kristy and Mary Anne take the boys to a hair cutter and they misbehave. Stacey takes her group to the movies and they act...