Ann M Martin

Stacey's friends are crushed when they hear that she is moving back to New York City. How will the Baby-sitters Club cope without her?

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.

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

While babysitting during a vacation at the beach, thirteen-year-old Mary Anne realizes that boys can really make life complicated for her and her girl friends.

Thirteen-year-old Claudia concludes that she is adopted since she sees no resemblance between herself and her brainy older sister whom she rivals.

When her parents decide to get a divorce, Stacey must choose between staying in New York with her father or moving back to Stoneybrook with her mother.

Eleven-year-old Mallory is excited when it looks like the eighth-grade girls will invite her to join their Baby-sitters Club and she might become best friends with the new African American girl in the neighborhood, but the club members have to learn some lessons in fairness first.

Kristy needs the help of the Baby-sitters Club to find out who is sending her mysterious notes, which are mushy at first but then start getting weird and creepy.

Mary Anne begins to have second thoughts about having told Logan to cool their relationship.

Stacey becomes part of the "in" crowd when she tries out for the cheerleading team.