Jessi's Secret Language (Baby-Sitters Club) [Paperback]

Ann Matthews Martin (Author), Jean Feiwel (Editor), Bethany Buck (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1996 | Age Level: 8 and up | Series: Baby-Sitters Club (Book 16)

Learning American Sign Language from young Matt Braddock, the club's newest charge, Jessi is swept up in local efforts to introduce sign language to the many interested children and prepares a special surprise for Matt. Reissue.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 145 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic (August 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590604104
• ISBN-13: 978-0590604109
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #634,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #80 in Books > Children's Books > Social Situations > Babysitting

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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good, November 5, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Jessi's Secret Language (Baby-Sitters Club) (Paperback)

i'm taking ASL in school and i was looking on my books shelf and found this book and i decided to re-read it. its really good. the only thing that bugs me is that on the cover jessie is using see sign when the book said it was ASL. it doesn't matter to much though. it is a really good book and shows how people who may seem diffrent at first glance can have a lot ion common with you. i hope you enjoy it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great debut for jessi, August 8, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Jessi's Secret Language (Baby-Sitters Club) (School & Library Binding)

this book shows jessi to be a passionate, caring and even talented protagonist/narrator of the story. She is very much into ballet and recently joined the babysitters club, so when she babysits for a deaf 7 year old boy who communicates in sign language, she befriends him and is interested in learning it and does so and also teaches it to the neighborhood kids and help matt make friends that way who were very understanding of his situation. Also, jessi had a great awareness of how the deaf and disabled are marginalized by society for their disability and invited a bunch of deaf kids to a ballet she is dancing in and got a translator to do sign language onstage to show what the plot of the story is like as they watch the beautiful dancing, and in turn empowers them and gives them the message that just cause they can't hear music doesn't mean they cannot appreciate the arts. Also because jessi experienced racism from neighbors after moving to stoneybrook from new jersey, she could probably relate to the pain of being marganlized. Great start for jessi I love this book!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome..., June 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Jessi's Secret Language (Baby-Sitters Club) (School & Library Binding)

This book was great! Jessi gets the baby sitting job of watching a little deaf boy, Matt. She learns sign language (his "secret language) and gets to know him better. She even explains to the neighborhood kids that he's not weird, he's cool, because he's got his own language. Pretty soon , all the kids learn something in sign language, and he has plently of friends. I really enjoyed this book, and I'm sure anyone else would too. :]