Poor Logan is being teased at school for being a boy Baby-sitter. When he starts hanging around with Jam and his tough crowd and gets into major trouble, the Baby-sitters can't help him.
Kristy is one of the last to see Jake before he is reported missing. The baby-sitters and all Jake's friends help look for him. When the police cannot find him after two days, Kristy is determined to find him.
Dawn begins to get threatening notes and odd phone calls while she is babysitting. She is scared, but she is afraid she will lose the Sitter of the Month Contest if she tells anyone.
Kristy is in the starring role as Peter Pan in the school play. The other members of the Baby-sitters Club are involved onstage and off. But when rehearsals start nothing goes right.
In parallel stories, Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, Molly, a family pet, helps Charlie through the grief and other after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pleads for a dog of his own.
Fourteen-year-old Melanie can't forget the handsome, mysterious boy who was her "summer romance," and when she sees his face on the cover of "People" magazine, she is determined to learn the truth about him.
Identical twins Abby and Anna have always been very close even though they do not share the same taste in fashion, friends, or interests, but when Anna is diagnosed with scoliosis, Abby feels she must do something to reaffirm their alikeness and only succeeds in driving her sister away.