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  • Age Range: 8 - 12 years
  • Grade Level: 3 - 7
  • Lexile Measure: 610L (What's this?)
  • Series: The Baby-Sitters Club (Book 1)
  • Mass Market Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (April 1, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0545174759
  • ISBN-13: 978-0545174756
  • Product Dimensions: 0.3 x 5.2 x 7.5 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (332 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhat is wrong with you people???
By Tiffany on April 8, 2006
Format: Paperback
You are complaining that the books are too "nice". There's no sex, drugs, drinking, etc. They're 13!!!! And I was 8 when I started reading the BSC. Why on earth would any responsible author write a series for young girls and fill it with stuff like that. This is FICTION (yeah, look it up). An escape from reality. You want sex, drugs, drinking, turn on the TV or something. The BSC was a GREAT series. I read it for years, well into my early teens, and I recommend it to any young girl. This was the series that spawned my love of reading.
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5.0 out of 5 starsYO!
A Kid's Review on February 27, 2006
Format: Paperback
Hey, Um, you, who was talking about how you hate these books now, some people may agree with you or agree with me, but Ann Martin can't write about Claudia ,or whoever, having sex!

I mean, yeah, some stuff doens't seem real, but these were the late 80's early 90's, M.A has a boyfriend in the later stuff, I mean, but sex?

That would ruin the meaning of these books, they are supposed to be FUN, HAPPY, and some kids around 9 read these books too, I don't think they're parents would be happy having their 9yr old reading about a 13yr old having sex!!

So, Don't blame Martin, you can write your own books about people having sex, ok?
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5.0 out of 5 starsRaina's great idea
By E. R. Bird HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on March 10, 2006
Format: Paperback
Let me tell you a little something about "The Baby-Sitters Club". When the series first came out in the 1980s I was like millions of other little girls around the country. I wolfed those puppies down like they was popcorn. Couldn't get enough of them. Ann M. Martin (who later went on to garner herself a Newbery Honor or two) only intended to write four books (one for each club member) but popular demand was so strong that she started writing more and more and more. If you were to walk into your local library you'd find dog-eared, yellowing, crumbling paperback editions. The series has never been republished, so libraries are forced to hold onto the dying original copies with their lamentable late 80s/early 90s hair and fashion. But do these covers deter the kiddies from reading them? Hardly. My library shelves literally cannot keep these puppies in stock. Put a new one (which is to say, a donated one) on the shelf and VOOM! It's gone the next day.

Which is why the people at Scholastic are geniuses. Right now I am holding in my hot little hands a brand-spanking new "Baby-Sitters Club" book. It's the first book in the series and it has been utterly and completely graphic-novelized (is that a word?). Scholastic has been veeery slowly cornering the market on high-quality literary graphic novels for children. I'm not talking about superhero comics or manga or any of that run-of-the-mill material. I'm talking about things like Jeff Smith's, "Bone", done in full color twelve-episode editions. Really high quality stuff. Now they've given us "The Baby-Sitter's Club" in graphic novel form and the timing could not be better. At this moment in time million of women who grew up with these books are now having children of their own. It makes me feel old, but it's true.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe best book in the series.
By N. Wagner on January 5, 2005
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I first read a BSC book when I was seven - in first grade - and the reading was too challenging for me, since I had just started reading chapter books. Well, when I was eight or nine, I picked this up and read the whole thing without a problem.

Now I'm fourteen and I still love the books. They contain nothing inappropriate - no language, sexual content, violence, and only minor drug usage. And when the rare BSC situation with drinking or smoking involved comes up, the character narrating the book clearly explains that it's a bad thing to do. There's also a bit of racism, but no bad language or anything - just stuff like people avoiding blacks. But this stuff is explained in the books to be wrong, too.

So, there's nothing that will turn kids into bad people or make them know bad things. The books are written in a great, flowing style, and each one is unique. Sometimes big tragedies occur, but the girls support each other and pull through in the end.

This book was definitely the best one in the series. Though I only own about ten of the books, I've picked up most of the other ones from the library, so I can tell how good this is compared to the others. Sure, they're great, but this one beats them out.

It's narrated by character Kristy, who gets a great idea. She and her friends Mary Anne and Claudia, plus Claudia's new friend Stacey, are going to start a baby-sitting club! They encounter lots of trouble in this book, like pesky kids, people who want them to sit for dogs, and Kristy's worst nightmare...

...Watson Brewer, whom her mother is dating - and might even marry. Kristy hates Watson and thinks his kids, Karen and Andrew, are probably brats, though she's never met them. Plus, Claudia's friend Stacey is acting strange, especially about eating junk food.

You'll have to read the book to find out what happens!
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5.0 out of 5 starswhat a great little book
By Jes on April 30, 2015
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Wow, what a great little book. I hadn't seen the black and white comics as I'm only really interested in color comics, but I do own a lot of old baby sitter club books. I was surprised that this is actually a shorter book in height than the standard graphic novel, and fits right in with the rest of my baby sitter club books quite nicely. Although, about twice as thick as those books. I'm an adult, but I read kids books occasionally and I sat down and read it in about an hour tonight. I haven't read the book in about 20 years, but I have to say I liked this even more than the first time. It just looks so great as a graphic novel, and all the parts of the story.. the letters they have in the books, or the drawings of the posters just fit right in in this format. Almost better than they did in the original. It's also interesting that they still broke the comic down into chapters.

The only down side is that the beginning of the story lacked some description when Watson is introduced.. it takes a few pages before you realize that Kristy's parents are divorced and she's dating Watson since it isn't exactly explicit at first. But really, that's the only slight negative that I could find.. I really can't imagine this story being as engaging in black and white. It's also hard to tell that this wasn't originally printed in color too.. they did a great job colorizing it. Many of the action lines are changed to white to stand out a bit better. I really hope they give the Goosebump graphix books the same treatment next!
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