The Baby-Sitters Club #1: Kristy’s Great Idea

The Baby-Sitters Club #1: Kristy’s Great Idea
By Ann M. Martin
Reviewed by Savannah

Kristy Thomas lives with her mom, 2 brothers Sam and Charlie. Kristy also has 1 little brother named David Micheal. She gets an idea to start a babysitting club while she was having dinner and over hears her mom contacting multiple people to babysit for her brother, David Micheal. She decides to babysit for her little brother. Kristy thinks of a great idea while babysitting.

Her idea was to have her friends Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, and the new girl from New York, Stacey Mcgill build a small business for babysitting. They all decided to put up flyers all over town.

Mary, Claudia, and Kristy start to suspect that something is wrong with the new girl Stacey. Whenever Kristy and Claudia pull out candy she starts so suddenly want to go home. What might Stacey be hiding?

Kristy really doesn’t want to spend time with her mom’s boyfriend Watson. Kristy learns to like Watson’s kids when she babysits them. She learns to like Watson just by one simple meaningful conversation with him. Why might Kristy have to learn to like Watson’s kids?

Claudia starts to wear lots of makeup ever since she’s been in a new grade. Kristy tries to figure out why Claudia is being so different.

The only problem Mary Anne has is that her dad is so over protective.

I think the book is great because you can relate to it if you're a kid. Kristy has a personality that I can relate to because we both say things without thinking about what it sounds like. The book also relates to how your siblings could be annoying as ever.

Here is the brief overview of The Baby-Sitters Club, book #1. Find out all the answers to the questions by reading this fantastic book.