Martin, Ann M.

Ever since Mary Anne threw away the chain letter she got in the mail, bad things have been happening to everybody in the Baby-sitters Club.

Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.

When her mother gets married, Kristy and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club have their hands full taking care of fourteen children at the wedding.

The competition gets fierce as members of the Baby-sitters Club get involved in helping their charges prepare for the Little Miss Stoneybrook contest.

Eleven-year-old Mallory is excited when it looks like she may be invited to join the Baby-sitters Club, but the baby-sitters have to learn some lessons in fairness first.

Claudia's participation in the Baby-sitters Club is curtailed when Grandmother Mimi suffers a stroke and Claudia finds herself "Mimi-sitting" and fighting more frequently with her sister.

Spending two weeks at the New Jersey shore as mother's helpers, Mary Anne objects when Stacey neglects her babysitting duties after falling in love with Scott the lifeguard.

Dawn is very enthusiatic about studying ecology. She wants to start a recycling center at school too. Most of the kids at school are for it, but she has been lecturing so many people about being environmentally responsible no one can stand to be around her.

"It used to be that Mary Anne's dad was really strict, but not anymore. Mary Anne's been growing up...but that's not the only big news for the Baby-sitters Club. There's a new boy in school named Logan Bruno, and he likes Mary Anne! He has a dreamy Southern accent, he's awfully cute--and he wants to join the Baby-sitters Club. The Baby-sitters aren't sure Logan will make a good club member. And Mary Anne thinks she's too shy for Logan. Life in the Baby-sitters Club has never been this complicated--or this fun!"--Page [4] of cover.