Graduation Day (Baby-Sitters Club Friends Forever Special) [Paperback]

Ann Matthews Martin (Author)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439219183
• ISBN-13: 978-0439219181
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #853,274 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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.

Customer Reviews

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BSC Swan Song, May 2, 2006

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Kat K. Munro (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Graduation Day (Baby-Sitters Club Friends Forever Special) (Paperback)

For fifteen years and 213 books, the Baby-Sitters Club has worked their way through the trials of middle school and life in small-town New England. This book stands as the final book in that legacy and manages to leave a beautiful, sentimental, hopeful swan song in the process. For any fan of the BSC, regardless of age and regardless of when you stopped reading new editions, this book serves as a powerful reminder of childhood and change.

I am nearly 28 years old. I feel no shame in confessing that I loved the Baby-Sitters Club. I loved the characters and their unique voices narrating the everyday and the spectacular in life. I loved the sense of community and family that made so many of the books end in happy tears for me. I love the "me" that developed out of the lessons and support that the BSC instilled in me as an impressionable, book-crazy child.

I didn't like to baby-sit, but I sought out and devoured every one of the series that I could get my hands on. The lives of the characters enriched my own life and allowed me to develop greater empathy for people of differing viewpoints and life experiences. The characters were the heart of the series.

For those who shared any part of Kristy's vision, this book is a worthy closing chapter on the journey. We really were the Baby-Sitters Club Generation.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best and Very Emotional!, December 4, 2000

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Graduation Day (Baby-Sitters Club Friends Forever Special) (Paperback)

Finally! The BSC graduates! In the book, it tells what happened in the years for the BSC. While that, it tells about a time capsule for the Pikes! It also has some stuff like Margo's Story, Charlie's, people who were never in other books. Also in the final book, it tells about the BSC's point of view. Like Kristy DOESN'T want to graduate.(She starts a chain reaction.)

To Ann: Your books were the best. Besides that, you wrote BSC tips. You made in the BSC Friends Forever that Mary Anne brakes up with Logan, I was happy because no offense but I was pretty much tired Mary Anne following Logan like a chiuahua. When I read about Mary Anne about the fire I was sad. You wrote things that touched us deeply. But in the BSC Friends Forever, I sensed the BSC will end... and I was right!

Mary Anne has to fix up problems with her ex-boyfriend, Logan. Claudia's worried if she'd be able to graduate at all. Stacey is stressed about her parents. Kristy is worried about the BSC. But their memories will last forever.

P.S. If you're pretty much wondering, the book you'll see is NOT the way it looks like on the 'net.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Goodbye, Girls, October 14, 2005

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Booklover (Birmingham, AL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Graduation Day (Baby-Sitters Club Friends Forever Special) (Paperback)

The Baby-Sitters Club books were the first that I remember reading. When I was a child, I would take books to the dinner table and read during a meal (not the best manners, but my parents were ok with it because they encouraged me to read whenever I could). I was crazy about the BSC--I had the videos, dolls, even the sleeping bag (which I received for my 11th birthday). I can say that I've read up to the point where the acquired Abby as a new sitter, but I spotted "Graduation Day" and had to read it. I feel that I "grew up" with these girls--even though they are still 13 and I am now 23. The ending of a favorite series is bittersweet. Months ago, "passed the torch" to my 8 year old niece. On the first day of summer, I mailed her a copy of Kristy's Great Idea. She has fallen in love with the BSC and has now taken over the collection. When I went back home a few weeks ago, I had to smile when I saw a copy of "Claudia's Goodbye" in my old chair at the table.

"Graduation Day" was terrific. The perfect ending to a wonderful coming-of age series. Goodbye, Girls.