The Baby-Sitters Club #2: Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls [Mass Market Paperback]

Ann M. Martin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2010 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: The Baby-Sitters Club (Book 2)

The hit series returns to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters! The first three classic BSC books are back, along with a brand-new prequel, The Summer Before.

Being a good baby-sitter isn't always easy, and the vice-president of the Baby-Sitters Club, Claudia Kishi, is learning that the hard way. She and the other club members have started getting strange calls on the job. Is it the Phantom Caller, a jewel thief who's been breaking into houses in the area? One thing is certain -- the Club has to take action to protect their kids!

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About the Author

Ann M. Martin's The Babysitter's Club has sold over 176 million copies and inspired a generation of young readers. Her novels include the Newberry Honor Book A Corner of the Universe, A Dog's Life, and the Main Street series. She lives in upsate New York.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (April 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0545174767
• ISBN-13: 978-0545174763
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #26 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Teens > Social Issues > Being a Teen
  • #60 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Literature > Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror > Mysteries, Espionage, & Detectives

More About the Author

Ann M. Martin is the bestselling author of the momentous series The Baby-sitters Club, as well as the Main Street series. Her other acclaimed novels include "A Dog's Life," "Belle Teal," "Here Today," and the Newbery Honor Book "A Corner of the Universe." She lives in upstate New York. For more information, visit www.scholastic.com/bsc.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fiction Pre-teen Book With Suspense, October 15, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls (The Baby-Sitters Club, No. 2) (Paperback)

This is a really fun book I read over and over again. It's about a girl named Claudia Kishi who constantly receives weird phone calls on baby sitting jobs, where nobody answers. She had heard about a jewel thief nicknamed the Phantom Caller, who would call people who have a large amount of valuable jewelry, and when nobody answered, he would go to their house and rob them of their important jewelry. She was scared it was him, and also found out that her other friend from the babysitters club named Kristy Thomas was getting the weird phone calls, too. Later, their neighbors the Goldmans are robbed, but then they find out that it was only an imitation robbery. However, the babysitters club is still in a crisis. Mary Anne Spier is even banned from babysitting until the Phantom Caller was caught. Towards the end of the story, Kristy's Phantom Caller is actually a boy named Alan Gray that secretly liked her, and Claudia's was a boy she had been crushing on named Trevor Sandbourne. At the end of the story, the jewel thief is behind bars and Mary Anne can baby sit once again. My favorite part was at the end when everything was solved. I would recommend this story to pre-teens who enjoy a good mystery story that isn't too scary and that they can relate to.

~*Review by Anni-Lynn DeVito*~

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Phone Caller Mystery, December 15, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls (The Baby-Sitters Club, No. 2) (Paperback)

The book Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls by Ann M. Martin is about four girls named Claudia, Kristy, Stacey and Mary Anne. They meet each other at school and they want to baby-sit so the make a babysitters club. They think of ways to make people want to have them as there babysitter. They become a group and do it for a really long time and for what I have read in each book there together and they meet other people to be in the club. The only problem about that is that some people leave. ¼ So in this book they hear about this Phantom Phone Caller and what the phantom phone caller does is he calls and he sees if anybody is home and he calls and hangs up. If anyone does not answer he will come and rob the house. If anyone does answer he will still rob the house. They hear all about it and they hear that he is there city. Only Claudia and Kristy get the phone calls. Who could it be?

I think that Claudia and the Phantom phone Calls is a great book that if you like short stories and you do not want to put your book down I definitely recommend it.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous then and now!, October 28, 2006

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This review is from: Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls (The Baby-Sitters Club, No. 2) (Paperback)

I first started reading these books in late elementary school and through junior high. I could relate being a baby-sitter myself and how I wish I had a club like this!!

Now I'm 23 and decided to start re-collecting the series after my mom had me sell a lot of my old books in a garage sale years ago. They are still great!! Juvenile now, of course, but it teaches young girls about friendships, family situations, etc.

Living by myself and reading Phantom Phone Calls even still freaked me out a little and I huddled down in the covers with my cat. The first 30 are the best, since they were actually written by Ann M. Martin and the others ghost written. A big fan of the mysteries and super specials as well. Highly recommended to girls of all ages!!