Kristy's Great Idea (The Baby-Sitter's Club #1)

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Summary: THIS BOOK IS WHEN KRISTY THOUGHT UP THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB
Review: All the people who are saying the Baby-sitters Club is trash YOU ARE WRONG. THEY ARE THE BOMB. Some things are realistic. I mean when Jessi moved in the people were prejudice. That could happen in real life and I don't think the series is boring at all. If you want to read more MATURE books why not read Stephan King Carrie? Or Christopher Pike Road to Nowhere if you think this book is childish. I'm 12 and I still like The Baby-sitters Club Series. So There all you people who think this book is trash and if you want to read California Diaries read it.

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Summary: The BEST Book EVER
Review: Ann M. Martin is really ingenious!! I grew up with the BSC, I read them in 5th thru 7th grade and this was the late 80's. The first 10 books in the series are the best. I have learned soo much about myself and other things by reading her books. One of the many things I learned was to keep a journal. Also, her description of the neighborhoods in Stoneybrook where the Baby sitters live reminds me of my hometown where I lived from birth to 11 years, Lynnwood, Washington (a suburb north of Seattle). Whenever I'd read about the club meetings, I'd think of it being at my old house in Lynnwood!!

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Summary: The best book in the series.
Review: 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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Summary: Critique for the Whole Series
Review: I first read this book in the third grade. I continued reading the series until well into my sixteenth birthday. (Well, it was a long series and I was in the habit of finishing what I started.) I remember liking Kristy so much cause she seemed like the kind of girl I wished I could be. Later on Mallory came to the scene and I saw myself in her as well. I guess it was these 2 characters who kept me reading because I wanted to know everything that happens to them.

Well, anyway, I remember thinking Jessi on the cover of book 16 sure looks way older than 11. (I was 10 and I was comparing myself to her.) I wondered about it for awhile but eventually I let it pass. A few years later, however, I finally realizeda more significant fact. Something is terribly wrong with this series and it's not how they grew older in the first four books or so and then don't age for a little TOO long: the characters are unrealistic.

Real 13-and-11-yr-olds do not behave or think like these girls. They are sometimes waaay too mature for their age. For one thing, 13-yr-olds are not involved in a serious and intense relationship (Mary Anne and Logan). 13-yr-olds do not have that much holes on their ears (Claudia and Dawn), and there are many other things I can't think of for now. The fact is, 13-and-11-yrs-old are not that older than the kids they babysit. I kind of doubt in real life parents would trust a couple 13-yr-olds to watch for a baby.

Some facts are believable, such as the way Kristy getting really worked up about her baseball team. Which reminds me. Strangely, sometimes Kristy herself can be a little dumb and childish and oblivious for a 13-yr-old. I remember an episode where she got grounded. The way she tried to coaching the Krushers through her window is simply dumb. OK, I'm starting to get randomly disconnected here, but I have one more thing to say and then I'm gone. In that same book, Kristy was grounded for a day and she said she read many book. I don't know about that. I'm one of the biggest readers and I doubt I can read that much in a day. And Kristy is more of a sports person than a bookworm person.

Bottom line: The series is entertaining enough. You also learn a lot about various issues. You get to know the characters well cause each book spends like 2 out of 15 chapters describing them over and over again. But don't go here if you want something realistic. Oh, by the way, the later series is kind of more realistic in that things don't always have a happy ending, but I still think the characters need to be older than 13.

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Summary: Kristy's Great Idea
Review: Kristy Thomas starts a baby sitting club. She wants her friends Mary Anne Spier and Claudia Kishi to be in the club. Claudia tells them about a new girl named Stacey McGill that could join. She does. Kristy gets a strange phone call at one of the meetins for someone to come and baby sit two kids - but when she gets there, it's two dogs! And they act awful! Stacey acts strange. To find out why, read the book. I've read this from the library, the school library, and now I have it. I have an older one, but now they have better pictures on the cover and pictures and fill in pages, but mine doesn't have that. To tell which ones are the newer ones, they have pictures of all four girls around the side of the book. I think if you buy it here you get the newer one. I've read these so much I can read them in a day! I'm trying to read ten for summer reading, and I've read five already! And it's only been four days since summer reading started!

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Summary: Excellent! You can't put this book down until you are done.
Review: Kristy watches as her mother places several calls to try to find a sitter for her brother, David Michael. She sees how troublesome it must be, and how upset David Michael seems for causing all this trouble. Then, it comes to her in a flash! Her best idea ever! The Baby-sitters Club! A few days later, Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Claudia's new friend Stacey, are waiting eagerly for their first call. At 5:30 exactly, Kristy's mother call for a sitter for David Michael. Stacey gets the job. Then, Kristy gets a job with new clients. The children are Pinky and Buffy. They are both two. When Kristy goes to her job, she is shocked to find out that Pinky and Buffy are St. Bernard dogs. She has an awlful time. Stacey, on the other hand, has a great time playing Candyland with David Michael and Sam. Sam is Kristy's 14 year-old brother, and Stacey has a crush on him. The Baby-sitters Club does not seem to be off to a good start. Kristy's pet-sitting job, Sam keeps calling crank phone calls, and Stacey has a secret that she will not tell.

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Summary: First official book of the BSC
Review: Kristy's Grea Idea, the first book in the BSC, it's a good book. I wouldn't exactly call it excellent, but it did lead to a great series of wonderful, exciting, books that carries forever frienship. It's about when Kristy Thomas comes up with an idea of starting a club of baby-sitters in the neighborhood. With the help of Mary Anne Spire, her best friend since the time she was born, Claudia Kishi, a friend from across the street, and Stacey McGill, a newcomer to Stoneybrook, Conn. and who is also Claudia's best friend, Kristy's determine to make it work. But things don't turn out as easy as the girls expected, business and adulthood is more then they thought. But no matter what, the BSC is sure that they'll make it work and nothing is going to get in their way, nothing. How will the things turn out? Read the book and join the BSC on their first official adventure.

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Summary: Meet the BSC!
Review: Of course, everyone who reads this GREAT series knows that this is the first one.Kristy Thomas is the one who thought up the club.She talked to Claudia Kishi and Mary Anne Spier about what is about to become the BEST club(and series)in the WORLD! Claudia mentions that she knows someone that could join, Stacey McGill!They start it up!The original members get their first baby-sitters-club jobs.Kristy (pet)sits for two dogs,Buffy and Pinky!HaHa!Mary Anne takes care of Karen and Andrew ,C.K.watches Jamie and the Felders,Stace sits for David Micheal and meets Sam!A Great Book!

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Summary: Kristy's EXCELLENT Idea!
Review: The first in a series I recommend!Bsc is a fantastic series with lots going on and plenty characters coming and going.It could never be boring.Ann Martin will become a role model to me as I try to forge my path in writing....There is a problem though.The same things about the club will be explained at the start of every book in the same detail each time.Like,do you think that maybe Kristy once saw her mother on the phone trying to get a sitter for little David and then thought wouldn't it be great if mothers could ring up and speak to lots of sitters and then she got the idea of the Babysitters Club..???????You will be told all about this in almost every book!!But really should I complain??Put up with that repetition and ,honestly, it's a terrific series,and you'll always wonder what will happen next.