{My thoughts} – The Baby-Sitters Club gets more then they bargain for when they all end up mad at one another. Mary Anne keeps trying to make peace by writing apology letters but no one seems to take them seriously. They end up running the club in a poor way, it’s extremely unorganized, and no one is really speaking to one another. It is almost like they are constantly trying to sabotage one another.

Mary Anne ends up making friends with the new kid in school. Her name is Dawn and they get along well. It comes out eventually that she’d made friends with her to make the members of the Baby-Sitting Club jealous, but in the end that doesn’t really matter.

The entire Baby-Sitters Club eventually makes up with one another. They become friends again and find a way to work through the things that had upset them to begin with. Best of all they invite Dawn to be a member. I think that’s pretty neat, because she’d helped Mary Anne with a baby-sitting job and everything turned out really well, even though Mary Anne was struggling with the desire to panic the entire time.

This was a nice addition to the storyline and it helps the readers get to know Mary Anne a lot more. It also introduces us to Dawn a new member of the Club! I look forward to reading the next book in the series soon! ( )

OMG. I loved the BSC when I was little. Though I doubted it, a small part of that love must have lived on in me somewhere (like the way chicken pox lives on in your body even after you're well again) because I enjoyed reading this comic version so much. It was pretty embarrassing to be reading this on the bus and smiling, but I was so happy to be able to re-experience being twelve years old that it didn't bother me. ( )

⅘ stars
Raina is such an amazing illustrator and from someone who loved the novels, this brings them to life, we get to see the characters in colour and the settings.
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This is one of my little sister's favorite books and I had nothing else to do this afternoon so I read it. It was a pretty frustrating experience. These girls are some of the most short-tempered I've ever seen in a book. One breaks down in tears because her mother calls another one of the girls "my." The main conflict of the book starts because one girl takes a job of taking care of a baby without asking the other girls? What middle-schooler would prefer to take care of a crying, poopy baby instead of an older child?

Overall I found the story dull and frustrating, but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt and assuming it would be better if I was 11. ( )

In the last installment, the BSC banded together to fight off the rival Baby Sitters Agency, but in this story, their conflict is with each other; it stems from "job-hogging" but ends with none of the members talking to any of the others.

Shy Mary Anne makes a new friend, Dawn, during this period, and the two of them realize that Dawn's mom and Mary Anne's dad dated in high school.

After a near-disaster at Jamie Newton's fourth birthday, the club makes up, and accepts Dawn into its ranks. ( )