Margo, I said, What is your greatest wish?Global peace, she replied immediately.Yes, but say it in a nice sentence.My greatest wish, Margo said, looking rapturous and angelic, is for global peace. Tha...
For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
Thought for sure someone would screech or gasp or fall off the bed.
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.
Don't let her sit near me, Mary Anne whispered.Can't you guys just kiss and make up? I asked.Ask Claudia. She's the one who decided not to talk to me.Well, you weren't exactly Miss Congealiality yours...
I really love Courtie and I love Leigh too, I guess. After all, she’d been my stepmother for five years then ever since I was 11, and she’d seen my older brother, Mike and me through some hard times....
Can we visit her tonight? I asked. May we? Janine, Mom, and Dad all corrected me at once.
Luv, Stace
I’m not going to be able to go with you this afternoon, I said. Oh. She didn’t seem crushed, but I could tell she wasn’t overjoyed, either. Well, I guess I can find enough stuff myself. Okay, I said....
I looked at Andrew and at Nannie. I loved them and the rest of my family very much. I loved my friends too. For now that was enough love for me.
A pageant to choose Little Miss Stoneybrook was going to be held for girls ages five to eight. The winner would go on to a county pageant. The winner of the county pageant could compete for the Little...
A Positive Attitude makes a Powerful Mind.
I felt like a fool. A rotten sitter. Kristy the Careless. Everyone in town was going to see Jackie with his cane. Of course they would ask what happened and they'd find out the truth. He'd been left u...
I can sing, said Margo. (Claire was sniffling and rubbing her knee.) We sing all the time in music class at school. Listen to this. It’s the song about the smart reindeer: Rudolph the Red knows rain,...
Abby had known Orrin since they were five, but she had fallen in love with him three months earlier, toward the end of second grade.
And what did my mother think the Babysitters Club was, I wondered. A game?
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I think Mallory Pike may secretly like being one of our younger members. That’s because in real life she’s the oldest of — get ready — eight kids. Can you imagine? Her brothers and sisters are Vanessa...
Sure. Waffles are fine. How come you didn’t ask me what I wanted? I’m asking you now. They’re fine, Janine said again. Sighing, she turned back to the computer. I stuck my tongue out at her and ran do...
Our clients depend on us, I shot back. That's why they keep calling back. Our motto was, one call, seven sitters, remember? Not one call, four or five sitters who bothered to show up and a couple of o...
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