Does anyone know about the Babysitters club books????

Question

I NEED to know about the series and the author. Does anyone have any sites, info, ANYTHING about them. I have a book report due on January 12th!! HELP!!!

Answer 1

I loved the BSC when I was a kid!

Author- Ann M. Martin

From the publisher: http://www.scholastic.com/annmartin/bsc/

Descriptions of each book: http://www.scholastic.ca/annmartin/bsc/lib/babysittersclub.htm

General info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baby-Sitters_Club

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I used to love the babysitters club books when i was like a little kid..
just google the "babysitter club"

Answer 4

www.babysitters.com i hated those books. i feel sry for you. i have no idea who the author is but which one are you talking about? there's like over 20. There's a girl named christina in some of them. and she's like... really pretty and she fails. that's all iknow. and they babysit people and they have their own phone line and get paid a lot. sry. taht's all i knw.

Answer 5

go to www.scholastic.com/annmartin/bsc
it tells you things about the characters, author, facts, and more.

Answer 6

The Baby-sitters Club is a series of children’s books published by Scholastic between 1986 and 2000. The books are credited to Ann M. Martin (who did write the first 35 books[citation needed]), though many were ghostwritten[1] (43 by Peter Lerangis[2]). Spin-offs from the series include a number of other books, a TV show, PC games, a movie, board games and dolls.

The books follow the adventures of a group of middle-school students in the fictional town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut, who run the title business on a part-time basis. Clients are invited to call during the club's regular meetings, with sitters assigned based on schedule and other factors. All of the members charge the same fee, paying part back to the group as weekly dues; they also share notes on particular jobs and children for future reference.

The club starts out with four members, eventually expanding to nine. All of the main characters are about the same age, with the exception of junior members Mallory and Jessi, who are two years younger. The older characters are in the seventh grade when the club is founded and advance to the eighth grade; after that, the characters remain static in age until the final book, in which they finish middle school.

In the regular series and Mystery spinoff series, each book focuses on and is narrated by one member of the club. Some chapters begin with an entry from the club’s notebook, in which members are required to take notes on each of their baby-sitting jobs. The regular books are generally 120 to 150 pages long, with 15 chapters. To aid readers who may be starting mid-series, each book begins with the narrator explaining a bit about the club’s history and introducing the main characters, usually in the second chapter. Approximately 3 or 4 chapters in the book are often dedicated to the various babysitters as they are baby-sitting their clients. These chapters provide a break from the main storyline and are often smaller subplots within the novel itself. Each babysitting chapter also begins with a notebook entry from the babysitter as well. This style of narration started from book #1 and continued until book #131.

Related book series

The series’ popularity was spun off into 15 expanded Super Special books, each of which centers on a larger-scale plot involving multiple baby-sitters and clients and switches narrators on a chapter-by-chapter basis. (For example, one book is about the baby-sitters becoming counselors-in-training at a camp attended by many of their clients; in another, the club is enlisted to care for the Pikes’ eight children during a cruise trip.) Also part of the regular series are three Special Edition Readers’ Request books featuring associate members Logan and Shannon.

The Baby-sitters Club Mystery books, published between 1991 and 1998, are similar in style to the regular series in that each book features and is narrated by one character, although the stories focus more on a particular mystery the character is trying to solve. Thirty-six Mystery books were published, along with four Super Mysteries.

The Baby-sitters Little Sister series, which ran from 1988 to 1996, is geared toward younger readers, with a focus on Karen, the 7-year-old step-sister of Baby-Sitters Club president Kristy; it also included Super Special books. One hundred and twenty two Little Sister books and six Little Sister Super Special books were published.

The Portrait Collection — six books published between 1994 and 1997 — is in the format of autobiographies Kristy, Mary Anne, Dawn, Stacey, Abby and Claudia been assigned to write for a class project.

Baby-sitters Club Friends Forever, which ran from 1999 to 2000, comes after the original series, focusing more on the lives of the original four characters: Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne and Stacey. Twelve of these books were published, along with two Friends Forever Super Special books. The Friends Forever books were considerably less successful than their predecessor and lasted twelve books, as opposed to The Baby-sitters Club's 131.

California Diaries, about Dawn and her friends after her return to California. These are thought to have targeted a slightly older audience, with a darker feel. There are fifteen books that center around the characters of Dawn, Ducky, Amalia, Maggie, and Sunny. The subjects dealt with include anorexia and racism.

In 2006, Graphix, a division of Scholastic, released a graphic novel version of the first Baby-Sitter's Club book, Kristy's Great Idea. The novel is a contemporary yet faithful adaptation written by Raina Telgemeier, an Eisner Award nominee. The graphic novel versions will continue with the release of The Truth About Stacey, also by Telgemeier.

The other Ann M. Martin series is loosely related to the original Baby-sitters Club books: The Kids in Ms. Colman’s Class, about Karen’s second-grade classmates at Stoneybrook Academy.

In 1990, The Baby-sitters Club spawned a 13-episode TV series, which aired at various times on HBO, Disney Channel, and Nickelodeon, and was later released to video.

Answer 7

go to google and look up study notes..... those help sooo much, you dont even have to read the book they help so much!