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The Truth About Stacey (The Baby-Sitters Club #3)

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Poor Stacey. She's moved to a new town. She's still coming to terms with her diabetes. She's facing baby-sitting problems left and right. And her parents are no help.

Luckily, Stacey has three new, true friends: Kristy, Claudia, and Mary Anne. Together, they're the BSC, and they will deal with whatever's thrown their way - even if it's a rival baby-sitting club!

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Published September 1st 1995 by Scholastic (first published 1986)

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Jan 06, 2010 Ciara rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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the truth about stacey is that she has childhood-onset diabetes. big fucking deal. i mean, i'm sure it sucks for her, having to watch her diet & everything. my dad had diabetes & it was no picnic for him (though he did not have to give himself insulin shots). but the way they build up to it, you'd think she was typhoid mary or something. the way these books were written, i got the idea that diabetes was an STI when i was a kid (cut me some slack, i was seven years old, it was 1986, &...more the truth about stacey is that she has childhood-onset diabetes. big fucking deal. i mean, i'm sure it sucks for her, having to watch her diet & everything. my dad had diabetes & it was no picnic for him (though he did not have to give himself insulin shots). but the way they build up to it, you'd think she was typhoid mary or something. the way these books were written, i got the idea that diabetes was an STI when i was a kid (cut me some slack, i was seven years old, it was 1986, & we were surrounded by safer sex lectures & STI information everywhere we went, but it was really vague information that only served to make us all completely confused & freaked out). i found it really disturbing that a 12-year-old had an STI & i felt really bad for stacey. eventually i realized that diabetes is not an STI & i felt a lot better because i'd been really worried that stacey had been molested or something. but then i realized that the way diabetes is written in these books is really weird.

this is the first confession that stacey has to give herself daily insulin shots. she refers to them as "gross" & says that she will never allow any of her friends to see her giving herself a shot. i hope she gets over that at some point in her life (not that she is a real person), because it's really not gross & no big deal at all. though i understand what she means when she says that she hates it because it makes her feel for just a minute like a very sick person. & that is hard to deal with.

this whole book is all about stacey's parents wanting to take her to another fancy doctor who claims to have a "cure" for juvenile diabetes. but stacey is happy with her treatments & is in good health & is angry with her parents for uprooting her all the time for doctor appintments & making her feel sicker than she is. she finally stands up for herself & her parents back off.

the B-plot involves some older girls forming a babysitting agency to compete with the babysitters club. they can stay out later & have a wider variety of sitters. they snake a lot of BSC's business before the girls figure out that the agency's sitters are kind of shitty & the charges don't like them. they convince the charges to tell their parents about the bad things the agency sitters do, & the parents go back to using the BSC. there's this ludicrous scene where the club confronts the two girls who run the agency & basically play twenty questions to determine who is a better sitter: "what's nina marshall allergic to?" "what does it mean when eleanor rubs her ears?" etc etc. the agency girls answer all the questions wrong & the BSc is all, "yeah! take that!" & it seems like the most embarrassing victory in the world to me. "yeah, we're better sitters because we spend all our time with small neighborhood children & know their obnoxious little quirks! BOOYAH, MOTHAFUCKA!" not so much, BSC. but i'm sure i thought it was awesome when i was seven. (less)

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May 07, 2012 Anna Ligtenberg rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

ISBN 0590421247 - The Baby-Sitters Club series always ranks in my favorite kids' books. They usually have nice messages without getting preachy, and this one is no different.

Stacey's got diabetes and very few people know about it. Her parents and the rest of the BSC know, but even her one-time best friend from New York doesn't know. When Stacey gets tired of being dragged from doctor to doctor, she tries to take control without hurting her parents' feelings. It's a bad time to be running off to...more

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Apr 22, 2013 Swankivy rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is babysitter Stacey's first book, and the "truth about" her is that she has diabetes. This made me happy as a kid because I didn't see many books about preteens with diabetes, and my best friend had the same kind--requiring strict diet control and insulin shots. I didn't like that she was sort of so put off and grossed out by her own condition, but at the same time she was newly diagnosed and she was probably just coming to terms with it. I understood her confusion and sadness over not wan...more

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Apr 07, 2013 Laura Hughes rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: babysitters-club

There are two main conflicts in this book. One is the new baby-sitting club. Eighth-graders Liz Lewis and Michelle Patterson have started their own business, the Baby-sitters Agency, with several key advantages over the BSC. They boast older sitters with later curfews, including boys (OMG), and they don’t restrict the clients to specific meeting times--parents can call anytime. The club isn’t sure how to handle this new threat, and they’re worried, especially when a few meetings go by with almos...more There are two main conflicts in this book. One is the new baby-sitting club. Eighth-graders Liz Lewis and Michelle Patterson have started their own business, the Baby-sitters Agency, with several key advantages over the BSC. They boast older sitters with later curfews, including boys (OMG), and they don’t restrict the clients to specific meeting times--parents can call anytime. The club isn’t sure how to handle this new threat, and they’re worried, especially when a few meetings go by with almost no calls. In the midst of this, Mrs. Newton has her baby, Lucy, and at an impromptu "big brother party" the girls throw together for Jamie, Jamie tearfully tells them that they can’t be his baby-sitters anymore because Mrs. Newton wants someone older for the newborn.

The baby-sitters try a few different tactics. After seeing the BSA’s aggressive membership drive at school, they advertise for older sitters, too (Kristy makes everyone wear sandwich boards in school, and if the BSC didn’t already have a nerdy reputation, here’s where it officially begins). This is thwarted, though, when the new members turn out to be moles from the agency, sent to do recon on the BSC and ruin their reputation by no-showing on the jobs they signed up for. Kristy also wants to offer lower rates and free housework, but Mary Anne and Claudia reject this as demeaning. Kristy’s only successful idea is Kid-Kits, boxes the sitters will take along on their jobs with a rotating selection of toys and games--none of it has to be new, just new to the kids. Kids like the kits (will be referenced in pretty much every BSC book from now on), but this word-of-mouth isn’t enough for a serious advantage.

Through their charges, the Baby-sitters begin to hear bad reports about the BSA sitters. They don’t spend time with the kids or appear to like them very much. The baby-sitters don’t know what to do with this information; they fear if they tattle on their competition, they’ll look like poor sports. When they find Jamie wandering around unsupervised in the street without his winter gear, they decide that his safety is more important than their reputation and tell Mrs. Newton. She’s appalled that Jamie’s sitter was so irresponsible and promises to warn other parents off the agency, although she will continue to use some of the individual older sitters she found through them for Lucy. (Although Lucy doesn’t age in any serious way, and neither do our sitters, they’ll be taking care of her soon enough.)

Onto conflict #2. Early on, Stacey’s parents tell her they want her to see a new doctor in New York. Stacey doesn’t want to go, feeling that her parents are looking for an impossible miracle cure when she feels totally fine and has her diabetes under control. She mentions the new doctor to Dr. Johanssen and learns that he isn’t very well respected in the medical community. He’s not actively harmful; he’s flashy but ineffective, kind of the Gilderoy Lockhart of juvenile onset diabetes care. While worrying about the Agency, Stacey dreads this trip, where she’ll have to go to this doctor and see her ex-friend Laine for the first time since moving away. Dr. Johanssen wrangles her an appointment with a more traditional doctor, and Stacey promises to go to her parents’ doctor if she can also go to her own. They agree, and end up trusting Dr. Johanssen’s friend more than the pop-fizz-whang-bang doctor. Stacey also tells Laine about her condition and the two make up.

Stacey’s characterization is great here, and sets the stage for my favorite Stacey books. She realizes how much the club and her new friends mean to her when they’re threatened, and she’s among the more gung-ho fighters in the battle of the clubs, second only to Kristy. She is hardworking and smart. Actually, oth plots show our girls to be more mature and responsible than their elders. (Most of them. Dr. Johanssen proves to be one of the good grown-ups.) One of the central themes of the series seems to be the young heroines’ boundless capacity for wisdom and responsibility. I approve, really; they’re not perfect, and I like that they set a high standard of normal behavior.

The two plotlines are integrated very well pacing-wise. Stacey has to go to New York at what feels like a key moment in BSA drama, but in fact the events she misses (which the other sitters fill her in on) are pretty boring housecleaning stuff that we didn’t need to see up close. All BSC books are about the same length, but this feels like one of the longest, jam-packed with two exciting plotlines, with a birth thrown in for good measure. There’s plenty of baby-sitting, but because it all supports the BSC/BSA A-plot, it never feels like doing time.

The two plotlines are never actively compared, and it wasn’t until I was writing this review (after many years and many readings) that I consciously realized that they have the same moral: in medical care, as in child care, it’s better to go with professionals you trust rather than gamble on something unproven. Flashy fad businesses may pop up here and there, but that dependable quality and conscientiousness will win out in the end. In this book, we see this moral from the point of view both of competitor and a potential client of said flashmongers. It’s a good moral and one that I believe people should believe, although I’m not sure it’s actually true.

Title Oddity: The title of this book makes everyone misremember as it as the book in which we/the Baby-sitters learn that Stacey has diabetes, but actually that happens in #1. We do get more backstory here. Stacey explains that her old friends in New York were freaked out by her symptoms, particularly her best friend Laine, and that’s why she never told them her diagnosis, and everything was left on pretty bad terms. She hints that she and Laine had been having problems anyway, having to do with the new girl, Allison Ritz. It’s odd how many details are already in place for the story she’ll recount in The Baby-sitters Remember.

Business Model Review: Basically, the Baby-sitters Agency is finding service; the two leaders, whose phone numbers are listed on the flier, take calls and then turn around do the legwork of finding a sitter for you. Instead of club dues, the Agency leaders take a cut of whatever their contractors make as a finder’s fee. This seems much more convenient for parents than the dumb little call-in window the BSC offers, although it must be hell for Liz and Michelle to be taking calls and playing phone tag at all hours of the day. It must seriously eat into their leisure time. (Maybe that explains why they give up after a few weeks.) And what happens if parents call during the school day? Do Liz and Michelle’s parents take messages for them? Do they have an answering machine, as I’m always advising for the BSC?

With dedicated message-takers, and a theoretically infinite network of (what the BSC would call associate) members, it seems like this club could be a lot more efficient and profitable than the BSC, but (as the book successfully conveys) it seems a lot colder and less personal. While there’s nothing in this model that inherently encourages bad sitter behavior, there’s also no discernable quality control, and when you think about, the meetings do a lot for the BSC besides organizational time: it encourages the baby-sitters to share their joy and interest in the kids they sit for and create a culture of shared information. When Mary Anne trumps Liz in an impromptu trivia session about the clients’ allergies and interests, it’s not just because the BSC are simply better sitters--it’s because they have a hive mind.(less)

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Aug 17, 2008 Josette rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: children-s

My 7 year old daughter recommended this book to me--"mom, it's really good, you've gotta read it"--so I did. One of the joys of sharing books w/ your children--you get to talk about characters/situations together and they can become part of your family's "culture". (Although I'm not sure "Babysitter's Club" books will become part of our family culture--I was thinking more about Chronicles of Narnia, or Winnie the Pooh or James and the Giant Peach)

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Jan 22, 2008 Candise rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: feminist rulers and horse girls

Shelves: ya-lit

BSC was instrumental in bringing to the forefront those hard-hitting issues weighing on every upper-middle class goody-two-shoe New England girl. Here, we learn about the horrible secret Stacey (the pretty/popular girl) has been hiding. I won't spill the beans, but she can't eat sugar!! I know, I almost fainted, too. But with the BSC, you know we'll all make it through!

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May 16, 2011 Robin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, reread, young-adult, baby-sitters-club

True story- this was the first BSC book I ever read. I get how and why it propelled me into a huge Baby-Sitters Club obsession, too. Upon rereading this book, it's really clear how Ann M. Martin never initially meant to go past book #4. Her writing style in the first four books is dramatically different from her contributions to the rest of the series. The reading level is a bit higher than future books, meaning that either the target audience was a bit higher than the actual audience, or that,...more

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Oct 12, 2011 Tracy Poff rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: middle-grade, to-review, library

Stacey moved to Stoneybrook, Connecticut from New York City. Her friends in New York abandoned her when she discovered that she had diabetes, and until she met Claudia, she didn't have any friends in Stoneybrook, either. But, she was invited to the Baby-Sitters Club, and now she's friends with Kristy and Mary Anne, too.

Life's settled into a pleasant pattern of baby-sitting and hanging out with her friends, when the members of the Baby-Sitters Club learn that a new group, the Baby-Sitters Agency,...more Stacey moved to Stoneybrook, Connecticut from New York City. Her friends in New York abandoned her when she discovered that she had diabetes, and until she met Claudia, she didn't have any friends in Stoneybrook, either. But, she was invited to the Baby-Sitters Club, and now she's friends with Kristy and Mary Anne, too.

Life's settled into a pleasant pattern of baby-sitting and hanging out with her friends, when the members of the Baby-Sitters Club learn that a new group, the Baby-Sitters Agency, are moving in on their territory. On top of that, Stacey's parents want to take her to yet another doctor, hoping for a miracle cure to her diabetes, when all she wants is to go to school and stay with her friends. What's Stacey to do?

The Truth About Stacey is the third book in Ann M. Martin's The Baby-Sitters Club series. This time, the story is told from Stacey's point of view.

I like the story in this one very much--both major plotlines are well-done and have good messages. The Baby-Sitters Agency, in the persons of Liz and Michelle, provides a good 'villain' for the story, and when the members of the Baby-Sitters Club begin to suspect that their rivals may not be such responsible baby-sitters as they make themselves out to be, it provides a good lesson about what's really important: to be responsible and ethical, even in the face of a challenge. To beat their rivals not through trickery, but by being better baby-sitters.

The second plotline, with Stacey's parents dragging her about the country in search of a cure for diabetes is well done, too. As Dr. Graham points out at the end: "Stacey seems incredibly healthy . . . and that comes from one thing only: regulating the amount of insulin in her body." Seeking miracle cures for diseases is not productive, and I hope that children who read this book will grow up to be skeptical of such things. If everyone were as sensible as Stacey, the world would be a better (and healthier) place.

I must say, I really like the technique of writing each of these books from a different character's point of view. It both gives us insight into how the characters feel about themselves and one another, and prevents the repetition of the premise in each book from getting too stale. Rather than Kristy telling us three times that she had the great idea for the Baby-Sitters Club, we get to hear instead how the formation of the club affected each of the members. Very well done, indeed.

The Truth About Stacey is, like the other books in the series, a great middle grade book, with both excellent story and characterization, and I'd recommend it without reservation to anyone looking for middle grade fiction.

Also like the other books in the series, The Truth About Stacey is now available as an ebook for the Kindle, so ebook readers can join in the fun, too.

This review also appears on my blog.(less)

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Dec 03, 2011 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: own

This series, BSC, was like the bread and butter of my childhood. I liked this just as much as I liked the rest of the series, but it wasn't anything hugely memorable, I guess.

Then I picked it up in my early 20s... and realized time, and life experience, has only made me LOVE this book even more (and also get a lot more emotional reading it). It's kind of weird to see how much you grow up and read the same things differently. This one, in particular, is about a girl, Stacey, whose parents kept tr...more

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Jan 18, 2013 Nerija rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: juv-ya, for-nostalgia-s-sake

This one was a re-read, though I'd forgotten the evil babysitting agency plot was so early in the series; somehow I remembered it as a separate book, rather than part of Stacey's story. But anyway, another pleasant stay in Stonybrook, complete with the mean girls getting their comeuppance and (view spoiler)

Also, hey, remember those mail-order clubs? You could get:

* a hot pink digital (OMG, digital!) watch
* a cool BSC mood ring!
* a name/addre...more

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Mar 14, 2007 Courtney rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, childrenslit

And what, might you ask, is the truth about Stacey? Well, I wouldn't want to give it away...but...

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Mar 13, 2013 Kit rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit, ya

The original Chick-Lit! Your parents wanted you to eschew the terrible Sweet Valley series for this wholesome one but, being the literary wunderkind that I am, I hoarded both. The space underneath my bed, contained within the bounds of my ruffly pink bedskirt, was STUFFED with books, mostly of the Sweet Valley and BSC variety. Of all the BSC members, Stacey was my spirit animal. Deranged as I was (am), I yearned to be diagnosed with Type I Diabetes and Sun-In my hair to blonde perfection so that...more

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Oct 25, 2012 Jordan Bramblett rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: popular-series

This book was really well put together. There aren't any illustrations in this book, but I believe the story makes up for not having pictures. The describing words really paint the pictures for you in your mind and you can see what's going on. This book shows the struggles of what diabetes can do to you and to your body as well as how you need to manage your diabetes when you have it. I really think this could be for the upper elementary level students as far as the reading difficulty. But any c...more

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Sep 16, 2010 Arlienny rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is about a girl named stacey that staerted working in the baby sitters club.Everytime the girls had a meeting stacey never ate junk food and the girls asked her why she didn't like to eat it but she always used to say that she was on a diet.Most girls of the club wondered why she was on a diet if she was so skinni.One time stacey was in the club and she started to feel dizzy and the girls got worried,that was when the girls found out that stacey suffered high blood sugar and she needed...more

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Mar 16, 2013 April rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: childrens, reviewed

Fantastic books for young girls getting into reading!! Great stories about friendship and life lessons. The characters deal with all sorts of situations and often find responsible solutions to problems.

I loved this series growing up and wanted to start my own babysitting business with friends. Great lessons in entrepreneurship for tweens.

The books may be dated with out references to modern technology but the story stands and lessons are still relevant.

Awesome books that girls will love! And the...more

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Apr 10, 2011 Dawn rated it 3 of 5 stars

Ahh, the BSC. I just can't get enough it seems! I read the third BSC book this morning while waiting for my husband to wake up. This is the first book in the series from Stacey's point of view. The basic premise: Stacey and the rest of the BSC are in a war with the Baby-Sitter's Agency, a rival baby-sitting group who are stealing customers from the BSC. Also, we learn more about Stacey's diabetes and follow her to New York where she comes face-to-face with her ex-best friend, Laine. Classic BSC....more

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Nov 16, 2012 Jennifer Wardrip rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Reviewed by Kira M for TeensReadToo.com

Having diabetes is the worst thing imaginable, according to Stacey McGill. Her parents treat her like a child. The hospital stays and doctor visits make her miss school a lot, and she loses most of her friends due to them either getting mad that she's not spending any time with them or the fact that they think she's too sick.

When Stacey moves to Stoneybrook, she meets Claudia, Kristy, and Mary Anne. When they invite her to join the Baby-sitters Club, she's...more

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Jul 14, 2011 Shannon rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 1994

I didn't think Stacey dressed all that cool. It was probably because by the time I got around to reading the series, all her clothes were already starting to be dated. It DID blow my mind that she had diabetes, though. The BSC series was my first introduction to diabetes, autism, sign language (beyond what I used in church signing), and Jewish home life. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but I guess it's definitely something for children's fiction writers to keep in mind.

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May 16, 2011 Lisa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book because my niece has begun reading the series. It's simple, but it shows kids that are responsible babysitters. Kids who take pride in their jobs as babysitters. Responsibility, taking pride in their work--good things for my niece to learn. The author also discusses problems kids have at school for being too smart, not having friends, having diabetes...etc. All great subjects for my niece to read about.

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May 03, 2012 Rachael C. rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-personal-challenge

I thought I'd pick up one of Ann M. Martin's Baby Sitter's Club books - a beloved series from my childhood. I was curious as to whether her books were as fantastic as I remembered them to be. I was not disappointed. Her writing is perfectly balanced, and wonderfully entertaining. She excels at painting a picture for the reader of every single scene. I wouldn't mind rereading additional BSC books, provided I can find them.

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Mar 16, 2012 Shanda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

When I looked at the cover of this book I thought someone had a kind of sickness with sweets. And fortunately, I was right. This book is not all about diabeties it's about a girl who has overprotective parents that overreacts about her deaseis. But it's mostely about a girl who tries to get by with baby-sitting problems, crushes ,and everything else a normal tennager does. She'e normal except she has diabieties.

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Nov 09, 2012 Ruby Scarlett rated it 4 of 5 stars

Loved this one. It surprised me how intricate the plot is with both Stacey's storyline and the club's own storyline. I really enjoyed the tips they give to babysit responsibly that are scattered throughout the book and and I'm growing extremely fond of the core members of the BSC. I can't wait to read more about Mary-Anne, she's the only one I haven't read a first-person story from yet.

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Jun 16, 2012 Allison rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: hark-i-are-a-chick, spackle-for-the-void, stunted-adolescence

As may be evident by now, I am on a big BSC nostalgia kick. In the third installment of the series, Stacey deals with the Big D (hence the longing glance she's casting at the candy counter on the cover—forbidden fruit, my friends, forbidden fruit!) and the BSC has a Jem-and-the-Holograms-versus-the-Misfits-style showdown with a rival babysitting club.

Good times!

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Nov 14, 2012 Delicious Strawberry rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ann-m-martin

Back then when this book came out, people didn't know much about diabetes. Heck, when I read this book I didn't even know there were two different types of diabetes. This book offers a bit of info on diabetes, but not much, as it's a kid's book and focuses more on Stacey's trying to hide it from her friends, but of course, the truth has to come out.

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Jan 03, 2011 Christina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Genre = Comic

The Babysitting Club

The thing I mostly liked about the book was the use of detail and emotion throughout the book. The story kept me wondering what was going to happen next with the club. The things I disliked in the book were how the words were simple and you didn't have to think about the story, it just tells you. I deffinatly need to read a higher level book next time.

The thing that suprised me was the way the other babysitting agency treated the kids when they worked but still...more

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Oct 12, 2011 Tuka rated it 5 of 5 stars

i like the book it is a good book it is about stacey and her best friend i think what is going to happen is that stacy and her best frind are going to be BEST friends agin.

love,
tuka

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Jul 26, 2011 Katie Fitzgerald rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: series, realistic-fiction, middle-grade, old-school-sunday, reviewed-on-blog, published-1980s

All in all, this book was a lot more interesting than I remembered. I'd forgotten all about the competing babysitting business, and the birth of Jamie Newton's little sister, Lucy, and though I never liked Stacey's constant obsession with her sophisticated New York lifestyle, she was pretty likeable in this book, and the resolution of her friendship with Laine was quite satisfying to read.

Read my full review on my blog: http://sharingsoda.blogspot.com/2011/...

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Jun 30, 2012 Audra rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: babysitter-s-club, nostalgia

I enjoyed the competition between the BSC and the BSA, but I didn't feel there was much "truth about stacey." Her friends already know she is diabetic! Maybe "Stacey Takes a Stand" should be the title. Cute, though!

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Jul 03, 2012 Kimberly rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children-and-young-adult

I loved the BSC series when I was younger and even more glad that I held on to them all these years so my children would be able to enjoy them as well. I would recommend for tween girls.

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Jul 17, 2011 Alisse rated it 5 of 5 stars

I thought this book was pretty good because Stacey has diabetes and her parents are dragging her to doctors all over America and she tells them to stop dragging her all around to doctors.

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