If Dawn
But she used to disagree with me on everything, just so she could pick a fight.
I told them the whole story, from Ms. Besser’s fateful phone call until right now. Now was Jeff’s stuff slowly being packed away into trunks. It was my mom crying in her room at night. It was me cryin...
I pushed my chair back and stood up. Look, I invented the Baby-Sitters Club. The whole idea was to work together, human-to-human contact, over the phone and in meetings. If you don't have that, you do...
They were just passing the Evanses’ house, Rose making gruesome faces in case they were spying out their windows, when Abby felt someone take her elbow, and she turned to find Zander Burley, his arm n...
If you could change one thing about this world, what would it be? Mrs. Peabody asked her.It would be wars, Myriah replied seriously. I would stop them. I would say to the people who were making the wa...
I thought for a moment. I did want the job. It sounded like fun, and I needed some fun. I didn’t want to cause any more problems among us sitters, though. On the other hand, this might be my chance to...
Shook my head. Then, tears welling up in my eyes, I fled down the hall to the lounge and sat in front of the soda machines until it was time to go home.
I think beaches kind of get in your blood, and if you grow up near one you never feel quite right when you're away from it.
Crunch. Claudia Kishi was eating something sweet and chocolatey.
Example of one of the big differences between Kristy and me. I was wearing a very short pink cotton dress, white tights, and black ballet slippers. I had swept all of my hair way over to one side, whe...
Didn’t like Mr. Nicholls, it wasn’t as if he were doing anything illegal. And when I told them that I wouldn’t want Joey and Nate to feel as if I’d abandoned them, we agreed that I should continue sit...
Oh, that is pathetic, said Mallory to Jessi. Look at them. They’re going to think the only thing that matters in their lives is beauty and poise. They’ll grow up believing they can only be pretty face...
Mallory clapped her hand to her forehead and moaned, Oh, no. My sisters. My baby sisters. They’ll be contaminated. They’ll be brainwashed. If I become the sister of Little Miss Stoneybrook, I will abs...
Later, after Abby had lugged Fred back inside and was taking off his jacket, she heard a crinkling sound and reached into the pocket of her coat. Her hand closed around an envelope. She pulled it out...
However, I knew Mimi would want me to play, so I agreed to.
Dawn be so rotten?
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pl...
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She was wearing a wonderful Claudia outfit — a purple-and-white striped bodysuit under a gray jumper-thing. The legs of the bodysuit stretched all the way to her ankles, but she was wearing purple pus...