The Baby-Sitters Club: Complete Set

by Ann M. Martin

The Baby-Sitters Club is a series about a group of girls in 7th and 8th grade. Their stories cover such issues as friendship, responsibility, school, siblings, and other various issues middle schoolers have to deal with.

Genres: Childrens, Young Adult, Fiction

Paperback

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She's now a full-time writer.

Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.

Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.

Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.

After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.

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Reviews

[Jerrod Drye · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was okay I didn't like what it was about but it was a good story overall

[Alexandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have actually not read the entire set but i have read a lot of these books. I really like them and if you are looking for some light reading,I highly suggest reading one. They are usually available at the library or yard sales.

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think these were about the only books I read from the time I was in 2nd grade until 5th grade...it makes me sad that I didn't expand my reading more back then, but boy, did my friends and I have loads of fun reading them!

[Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

This rating is from myself as a teen. I loved the books growing up. Now young teens want to go to Hogwarts...I wanted to join the BSC.It was these books that introduced me to my love of reading. For that fact alone it got five stars.

[Sarah Bohannon whitfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the entire series when I was younger & absolutely love it. I hope my daughter will enjoy them someday.

[Alexi Cortez · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Madison Johnson]

I loved these books as a teenager. I think they were some of the only books that I read. I think that they are great for teenage girls because they can really relate to story line and the situations that occur in the story.

This series is about a group of middle school students that create a club called the baby sitters club. This club helps parents in there small town find babysitters for there children. The club started with four founding members and grew to ten members. Each member brought there own special attributes to club. These books go through all of the normal problems that occur in a teenage girls life.

[L Jung · Rating 4 out of 5]

I devoured every Babysitters Club book in print.. definite brain candy in elementary school. Looking back on the books, they're pretty awful in terms of norming. Needless to say, I didn't give a rat's ass about that in 4th grade. Sweet obliviousness.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think I read every single one of these when I was younger. I can still remember each character in the series quite vividly. Ann M. Martin is a wonderful children's author and I'm so glad to see she's writing again.

[Diane · Rating 3 out of 5]

I know I read every single Babysitter's Club book possible during my Middle School years. I really liked them at the time and even remember relating most to the Christy character. I always thought it would be cool to set up a club too.

[Jen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVED these books--from about 2nd grade until...I don't know when I stopped reading them, but I know I DEVOURED them. I knew I was getting too old for them when I could get through them in a hour or two ;-)

[Silverluna78 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow...I loved these books. We even made laminated BSC cards for my group of friends. Both my mom and I remember me BEGGING her to take me to the mall -- not to hang out with friends, not to shops for new jeans to tight-roll, but for the new book that came out in this series :)

[Tara Frye · Rating 5 out of 5]

I used to love reading this series as a kid. These books weren't brand new because, they seemed like they came out in the 80s so they were kind of old for me to read but I still loved them. I think it was the first chapter book I read.

[Valerie · Rating 5 out of 5]

i could read two or three of these in a day when i was growing up, fun, helpful, and nice to have something all about girls in a house full of boys

[Paula · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read every single one of these books as a child. It was what got me into reading back then. And I'm so thankful for that!

[Erin Schramm · Rating 5 out of 5]

Keep in mind, I'm rating this from the point-of-view of my 12-year-old self who was obsessed with these books.

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read every single one of the books for this series and then tried to start my own in the neighborhood.

[Courtneycabral · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book I read was The baby- Sitters Club. It is about Stacey McGill and three of her friends Kristy Thomas, Claudia Kishi and Mary Anne Spier. They are trying to start there very first business of the Baby Sitters club. They run into many problems like other baby sitters club stealing there kids that the babysit. Having new members not dong there job right. But there is one secret the Stacey McGill keeps from all here friends. She is sick from a diesis called diabetes. Diabetes is when you body does not produces enough insulin to break down your food. So she has to stick to a stricted diet and give her shots of insulin each day. Staceys parents are very worried about her health and will do anything for her. She try many doctors to try t0 help her disease but haven't found the right fit. Until the end she finds the right doctor, Dr.graham. Over all I loved this book it reminded me when I started a friend ship braclet club back in forth grade!!

[Daniel Martin]

It's great! 🤓