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Jessi's Secret Language (Baby-Sitters Club)

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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.

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!

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. :]

jessi ramsey has a new client, a boy named matt. theres only one problem, hes deaf. jessi learns sign language and it takes the club and all the kids by storm. it was great and it made me go and learn sign language.

This book is the best I've read in The Babysitter's Club. It touched my heart in several ways. If you have a child aged 10-14 you MUST buy this book. It is a very heart warming book Ann. M. Martain is an excellent autor and she has a good sense of humour inside her books. I am 11 and I love this book. Jessi learns how to do sign language and sets up a ballet show for the deaf.

A very touching and realistic story. It features a young boy named Matt who was born deaf and this family, the Braddocks, move into Stoneybrook. Putting Jessi as the main character in this Babysitter Club book is very interesting because the deaf cannot hear music and therefore, none of them had exactly went to watch a musical or a ballet concert. Jessi's a ballerina and she feels especially sympathetic towards the deaf in that very aspect.
This story touches on the sensitive areas of a deaf person's life, about being ridiculed by others, looked down and thought of as weird. However, the babysitters were intrigued by Sign Language and the other kids int he neighbourhood begin to slowly accept Matt and were fascinated with sign language.
We also find out more about the deaf in this book, we learn some sign language, we learn that it is crucial that the deaf are kept well away from busy roads as they cannot hear cars approaching. We also find out how some families are being inconsiderate in not bothering to take up sign language to communicate with their deaf family member and instead, expect him/her to lip-read instead. Lip reading is extremely difficult.
The story has a happy ending and reveals what Jessi does to make the children in the school for the deaf happy. A must-read.

It was always refreshing to see the Baby-Sitters Club encounter kids that were different in some way (for example, Kristin babysat an autistic girl) In this book, Jessi takes on the baby-sitting duty of a boy who is deaf. The book was well-written and researched. Yes, it's a kids' book, so it doesn't offer a complex perspective in the world of the deaf or anything like that, but for its reading level, the context was presented appropriately, and it was cool to see Jessi learn sign language.

Yes I did like this book because it's by one of my favorite authors and I have almost read every single book in the series.
The book was about this girl called Jessi who has just moved into a new neighborhood. Jessi Jessi has this really great group of friends called the Baby Sitters Club. Jessi gets a sitting job for this deaf boy called Matt. Matt uses sign language instead of lip reading. Jessi is going to be in a ballet show called Coppelia and Matt's mom has been making arrangements so that the 8 kids in Matt's class can go see Coppelia. They have arranged for Haley to be the narrator and for Matt and Haley's mom to stand up on the stage and sign everything that Haley says so that Matt isn't left out. After the show Jessi finds out that Adle came to watch the show. Jessi's cousin Keshia is from Okley, New Jersey came to see Jessi be Swandelia. To celebrate the show being a success everybody who knows Jessi went to a restraunt to have ice cream.
Anybody will like this book.

I REALLY THINNK THAT IT IS A GOOD BOOK .IT TELL ABOUT A AFRCAN -AMERICAN GIRL IN A CLUB THAT DOES NOTKNOW ONE THING ABOUT SIN LAUGASUSE AND STUDY IT AND TEACHTHCLUB HOW TO AND PUT ON A SHOW FOR THE DEAF , THAT GIVES AFRCAN AMERICAN A NAMETHAT SAY THAT WE ARE THE SAME ONLY DIFFENT SKIN TONESI think that it is great it is the best book I know even my grandma likes it too it is a must read !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although I felt this book lacked excitement, and seemed to drag on, it has a good message. It shows how people who are "different" are really just normal, everyday people. It shows you how people of different races are special and so are disabled people. Jessi breaks the communication barrier, and makes a new friend! I read this 10 years ago and I still remember it!