Ann M Martin
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Main Street volume 5
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Someone is leaving books on their doorsteps. Each comes with a mysterious message asking them to read the book and do something new. The four friends now have a secret girls -only book club. Who's sending these packages? And what will the next book be? The girls can't wait to find out.
2) Belle Teal
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Belle Teal Harper is from a poor family in the country, and beginning fifth-grade is a challenge as her grandmother's memory is slipping away, her brother and father are fighting again, and she becomes involved with the two new children in her class.
3) Here today
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In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with her outcast status in school and frightening acts of prejudice toward the "misfits" that live on her street.
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"Claudia's sister, Janine, is too busy being smart to be nice to anyone--even their grandmother, Mimi. But Claudia doesn't have to see Janine too much this summer, since the Baby-sitter's Club is starting a new play group. It's going to be so much fun! But then Mimi has a stroke, and the whole summer changes. Now Claudia is 'Mimi-sitting, ' and Janine is no help at all. How can the Kishi sisters get along when Janine is always so mean?"--Provided...
5) Best friends
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Main Street volume 4
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As Flora and Ruby near the first anniversary of their arrival in Camden Falls, Flora has to deal with rivalry between Annika and Olivia, her old and new best friends as the town celebrates it's 350th birthday.
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Main Street volume 3
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"Christmas is coming to Camden Falls, and Flora and Ruby don't know how to feel about it. It's their first Christmas without their parents, and the memories are both happy and sad..."
12) The doll people
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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.
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Baby-sitters Club volume 37
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The babysitters club members are uncertain about Dawn's new older boyfriend Travis, especially when he continually tells her what to do.
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Baby-sitters Club volume 20
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It's not until after the Baby-sitters form a softball team that they realize they are all klutzes.
15) Kristy's big day
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Baby-sitters Club volume 6
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Kristy's mom is getting married, and Kristy's a bridesmaid. The only trouble is, fourteen little kids are coming to the wedding, and they all need baby-sitters. Stacey, Claudia, Mary Anne, Dawn, and Kristy think they can handle fourteen kids. But that's before they spend five days changing diapers, stopping fights, solving mix-ups, righting wrongs ... and getting sick and tired of baby-sitting. One thing's for sure: this is a hectic way to have a...
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Baby-sitters Club volume 5
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"As a new member of the Baby-sitters Club, Dawn tries to win the acceptance of the club's president by tackling a tough babysitting job." --
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"It used to be that Mary Anne's dad was really strict, but not anymore. Mary Anne's been growing up...but that's not the only big news for the Baby-sitters Club. There's a new boy in school named Logan Bruno, and he likes Mary Anne! He has a dreamy Southern accent, he's awfully cute--and he wants to join the Baby-sitters Club. The Baby-sitters aren't sure Logan will make a good club member. And Mary Anne thinks she's too shy for Logan. Life in the...
19) Boy-crazy Stacey
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Working as a mother's helper, with Stacey, for the Pike family at the Jersey shore, Mary Anne is upset when Stacey begins to neglect her job to spend her time pursuing a gorgeous lifeguard.
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Baby-sitters Club volume 19
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The members of the Baby-sitters Club think they can handle a young practical joker, but when one of her tricks causes Claudia to break her leg, the girls know they must teach their new charge a lesson.