Ann M Martin
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!
The New KarenKaren feels like an ugly duckling. Her baby teeth are all falling out, and she has to wear glasses, too! Karen needs a new haircut to make her look glamorous. But the beauty parlor lady cuts Karen's hair all wrong. Now she's uglier than ever! What will all the kids at school say? Ann M. Martin is the creator...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister!
Karen has to get glasses! She doesn't want them, especially because school pictures are going to be taken soon. But she picks out some pretty pink ones and thinks she looks very grown-up.
Then Yicky Ricky at school starts calling her names, like Owl Girl and Googly Eyes. If Karen wears her glasses for the school picture, Ricky will...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister!
Karen is having a terrible day. Her favorite jeans are missing, there's no prize in the Crunch-O cereal box, and Boo-Boo the cat won't play with her. She even gets punished and sent to her room!Karen tries everything to make her day better, but nothing is going right and her bad luck just won't go away. Will this be the worst day ever?...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mary Anne should never have thrown away that chain letter she got in the mail. Ever since she did, bad things have been happening to everyone in the Baby-sitters Club. With Halloween coming up, Mary Anne's even more worried -- what kind of spooky thing will happen next? Then Mary Anne finds a new note in her mailbox: Wear this bad-luck charm, it says. OR ELSE. Mary Anne has to follow the note's instructions. But who sent the charm? And why did they...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters club volume 19
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters!
Claudia's not worried when she hears her newest baby-sitting charge, Betsy, is a great practical joker. After all, how much harm can one girl do?As it turns out--plenty! Claudia breaks her leg because of one of Betsy's mean jokes . . . and now she's talking about quitting the club. Baby-sitting might be too dangerous. The rest of the BSC decides that Betsy needs to be...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Anne's beloved kitten Tigger has been missing for 24 hours and she is frantic! Will she ever find Tigger?
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
When her mother's remarriage takes her family into a much wealthier neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Kristy finds herself surrounded by snobbish girls who compare clothes, make fun of the Baby-sitters Club, and insult her aging dog.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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"How do you say good-bye to your very best friend?"--Page 1 of cover.
Oh, no! Stacey McGill is moving back to New York! That means no more Stoneybrook Middle School, no more Charlotte Johanssen, and worst of all...no more Baby-sitters Club! Stacey's friends are crushed when they hear that Stacey's moving, Claudia most of all. Stacey was her first best friend. How will the Baby-sitters cope without Stacey? What kind of going-away present is good enough...
10) Stacey's mistake
Author
Series
Baby-sitters club volume 18
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The hit series is back, to inspire and charm another generation of baby-sitters!
Stacey's so excited! She's invited her friends in the Baby-sitters Club to New York City for a long weekend. It's going to be perfect--a party and a sleepover on Friday, a big baby-sitting job on Saturday, and lot of sightseeing on Sunday.But what a mistake! The BSC is way out of place in the big city. Mary Anne sounds like a walking guide book, Dawn is afraid of everything,...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Liza thought she was prepared to lose her father—but coping is harder than she ever imagined
When Liza’s dad finds out he has less than a year to live, he asks his family to help him make his remaining time as happy as possible. After the initial shock, twelve-year-old Liza, her three siblings, and their mother resolve to make her dad’s last year wonderful—especially on Christmas, his favorite holiday.
Liza...
When Liza’s dad finds out he has less than a year to live, he asks his family to help him make his remaining time as happy as possible. After the initial shock, twelve-year-old Liza, her three siblings, and their mother resolve to make her dad’s last year wonderful—especially on Christmas, his favorite holiday.
Liza...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Claudia's participation in the Baby-sitters Club is curtailed when Grandmother Mimi suffers a stroke and Claudia finds herself "Mimi-sitting" and fighting more frequently with her sister.
13) Inside Out
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
How do you love someone who makes you miserable?
Eleven-year-old Jonathan just wants to have a normal life—for instance, a night when he isn’t awakened by screams, or a day when he’s not teased by other kids for having a disabled family member. But normal can’t happen when your little brother is severely autistic.
James, Jonathan’s four-year-old brother, needs more help than his parents can give...
Eleven-year-old Jonathan just wants to have a normal life—for instance, a night when he isn’t awakened by screams, or a day when he’s not teased by other kids for having a disabled family member. But normal can’t happen when your little brother is severely autistic.
James, Jonathan’s four-year-old brother, needs more help than his parents can give...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Newbery Honor Book: 2003.
The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.
16) Better to Wish
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Four generations. Four girls. One family.An amazing new four-book series from Ann M. Martin.
This first book in an all-new quartet from the phenomenal Ann M. Martin follows Abby Nichols in the 1930s in Maine. After her mother's death, Abby is largely responsible for raising her siblings, but she longs to write and live in New York City, far away from the tiny Maine town where she lives now. Once her father remarries and Abby has a stepmother she...
17) Kristy in charge
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Back-to-school brings an exciting new challenge for Kristy. She's been selected to be a teacher for a week! Team-teaching a gym class with her arch rival, Cary Retlin, Kristy learns a few lessons she never knew she needed.
18) The doll people
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The truth about Stacey is she has diabetes. Nobody knows..except her friends in the Babysitters Club. But even they don't know the real truth about Stacey. Stacey's problem is her parents. They won't admit she has the disease, and they drag her to practically every doctor in America! Seeing so many doctors made Stacey lose one friend, and she won't let it happen again. Especially now - when the Baby-sitters Club needs her more than ever!
20) A Dog's Life
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
“I can’t speak for all dogs. Not all dogs are alike. And most certainly, not all dogs have the same experiences. . . .”
Squirrel is not like most dogs. Born a stray, she must make her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal. Her life story, in her own words, is marked by loss, but also by an inspiring instinct to survive. And when it seems she will roam the woods and country...
Squirrel is not like most dogs. Born a stray, she must make her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal. Her life story, in her own words, is marked by loss, but also by an inspiring instinct to survive. And when it seems she will roam the woods and country...