I looked at my watch. 2:30. I really should go back to sleep soon or I’d be a basket case at school tomorrow, I thought, but I was avoiding nightmares of my own. I had them pretty often, more often th...
The long-ago days - the days of Mother and Bone and the shed - have become fuzzy and have blended with images of Moon, of my travels, of other people and houses, of hiding places; a tangle of memories...
Crunch. Claudia Kishi was eating something sweet and chocolatey.
Taylor beamed at Suzi. Hey! You’re my sister! Mine,
Elaborate
Well, it’s only temporary, until the rest of the house is in order. Then it goes downstairs to the living room. What movie do you want to see? What do you have? Practically everything. My mom’s a movi...
Kristy sat up very straight in the director’s chair. She adjusted her visor. As you know, she said, today we are going to induct two new members into the club.Jessi and Mal grinned at each other, but...
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...
Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles dow...
Business
For the first time in my life, I’m being sent home with weekly progress reports that I have to give to my father. The reports are written by Mrs. Leibler and read and signed by Mrs. Kushel, which is m...
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.
And what did my mother think the Babysitters Club was, I wondered. A game?
At eight A.M. We landed in Los Angeles five hours later, but our connecting flight was delayed for four hours. Well, L.A. time is two hours later than Hawaii time, so it was dinner hour when we boarde...
Something wasn't right in the Nicholls household, but what could I do about it? I hated to see two kids so unhappy, but if Mr. Nicholls had his rules, who was I to question them? It was his house. Joe...
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,...
When I was older, I could move to some place (like Australia or Kentucky) where the boys act more like human beings.
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...
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...
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.
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