Martin, Ann M.

Kristy starts a softball team for her little brothers and sister. Soon they are challenged to a real live game by the Bashers, and Kristy has a crush on the Bashers' coach.

When a fight breaks out among the members of the Baby-sitters Club, timid Mary Anne finds herself becoming more assertive as a baby sitter and in her relationships with her father and friends.

Claudia decides to investigate when she and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club receive mysterious phone calls while out on assignments.

Karen is frightened by a monster her stepbrother builds for the Halloween parade, but when the creature disappears, she plays detective to help find it in time for the big day.

Karen invites her friends Nancy and Hannie on a family trip to Shadow Lake.

While baby-sitting for the Craine girls, Mallory hears a cat crying in the attic--but the Craines don't own a cat!.

Kristy is hired to babysit Susan Felder, an autistic child, and likes her so much that she tries to make everyone overlook Susan's condition.