The Summer Before
by:
Ann M. Martin (author)
The BSC returns in this fantastic prequel from Newbery Honor author Ann M. Martin.Before there was the Baby-Sitters Club, there were four girls named Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, and Stacey McGill. As they start the summer before seventh grade (also before they start the BSC),...
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The BSC returns in this fantastic prequel from Newbery Honor author Ann M. Martin.Before there was the Baby-Sitters Club, there were four girls named Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, and Stacey McGill. As they start the summer before seventh grade (also before they start the BSC), each of them is on the cusp of a big change. Kristy is still hung up on hoping that her father will return to her family. Mary Anne has to prove to her father that she's no longer a little girl who needs hundreds of rules. Claudia is navigating her first major crush on a boy. And Stacey is leaving her entire New York City life behind...
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780545160933 (0545160936)
Publish date: April 1st 2010
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Pages no: 215
Edition language: English
Series: The Baby-Sitters Club
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...
I think this was a pretty good prequel for setting up the characters in the BSC. The characters were consistent with the series.
I was told I HAD to read this, the latest (but still a prequel) Baby Sitter's Club book.Well, I read it and it reminded me that I didn't really care for the BSC books when I was little, so it didn't impress me now. Sorry, BSC. :(
Oh the nostalgia! I wish I still owned my entire collection of Baby-Sitters Club books. I would absolutely sit down and read them over and over again. Hmmm... off to ebay...
A sweet book touching lightly on the lives of the original four babysitters during the summer between sixth and seventh grade. Although the action is slight (although not quite slight enough -- Claudia's and Kristy's plotlines would both require some retcon work in the original books to pass as unq...
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