The Baby-Sitters Club: The Summer Before (Paperback) by Ann M Martin

from LudieGrace

Very enjoyable for childhood (and continuing...) fans of the series. I found it to be very much in the spirit of the early "classic" books I loved so much, and it was fun for me to see how Ann imagined the girls pre-BSC. Some funny and very touching moments about friendship and growing up. Thanks...

from RubyScarlett

I would never have known this prequel was written 10 years after the last book in the series, the writing is exactly the same. What's comforting in the BSC series is that nothing really changes from book to book - the characters stay the same and react to different events around them, as was the ...

from Impy

The Summer Before is a good, solid book. There are things I probably would have changed if given the chance and there are things I love more than I would have imagined was possible. Each chapter is devoted to a different character, which is helpful when certain storylines start to bring you down....

from dasuzuki

If you were a fan of the original Baby-Sitters Club then you definitely want to pick this book up. If you are not familiar with this series it's a perfect read for the tween set. The Baby-Sitters Club starts off with four friends who love to babysit and follows their adventures in babysitting, fr...

from abbylibrarian

Before the Baby-Sitters Club, there were four girls: Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, and Stacey. Kristy, Claudia, and Mary Anne had been friends since they were little, but as the summer before seventh grade stretched on, it looked like they might be growing apart. Stacey, having been through a terri...