Books by Ann M. Martin

Everyone in the Baby-sitters Club remembers Lou McNally as the worst kid ever. But now she's back and, to Abby's surprise, acting a little too perfect. Original.

Stuck at home sick, Abby passes the time at her window snooping on the neighbors with her binoculars. It pays off when she spots a criminal just profiled on the "Mystery Trackers" TV show!

Abby and the BSC investigate a decades-old case of blackmail, extortion and murder at a country club seeking to live down its dark past.

It's soccer season, and Abby has joined a Special Olympics Unified Sports soccer team -- and developed a rivalry with another player.

After Abby is mistakenly charged with cheating on a math test, she must clear her name and her suspension from school so she can rightfully become a bat mitzvah.

When Mallory is unable to accompany Logan and the Baby-sitters Club on a trip to Hawaii, her loyal friends resolve to bring the islands home to her, taking photos and notes of everything they experience. Original.

Upset by racist taunting, Amalia turns to her family and new boyfriend to regain her self-confidence and her faith in people.

In her first California Diary, Amalia revealed the pain of dealing with her boyfriend James, who was abusive and threatening. Now she's over James. But she still feels the pain.

When his favorite author is invited to visit Ms. Colman's class, Ricky is the most excited student in school, but a whopper of a mistake makes him want Author Day to never come. Original.

Pamela is afraid of animals, but with the help of a zookeeper and a cute babyturtle, she overcomes her fear.

When Dawn and Claudia are allowed to sail in Long Island Sound without their sailing instructor, the baby-sitters and their young charges set out for Greenpoint Island and a day-long picnic, never expecting to be shipwrecked.

As the baby-sitters take a scenic cruise through the Caribbean, Mary Anne encounters a mysterious girl, Claudia gains a secret admirer, and Dawn has a shipboard romance.

Stoneybrook is besieged at Christmas time by such elements as a prowling burglar, a pregnant woman who is about to have a baby, and a scary stalker who is targeting Stacey. Original.

Kristy, Abby, Mal, Jessi, and Stacey are off to London and Paris--with some very special side trips along the way--in this thrilling, 240-page super special that's packaged with three special friendship rings!

Ten-year-old Belle Teal Harper, who lives with her mother and grandmother in a small rural town in the early 1960s, faces unexpected challenges as she begins the fifth grade, from her friend's troubled relationship with his father to her grandmother's slipping memory.

Karen is a practical joker-are you? Well, you can be with this 'Laugh Pack'. Try out all sorts of practical jokes on your friends.

Spending two weeks at the New Jersey shore as mother's helpers, Mary Anne objects when Stacey neglects her babysitting duties after falling in love with Scott the lifeguard.

Look at those trucks busy at work. The bulldozer pushes away trees. The backhoe digs deep holes. The loader picks up piles of dirt. They are building a new school!

November is filled with excitement, surprises, and difficult choices for Claudia, Queen of the seventh grade... and no one can make her choices for her.

Fighting with her genius older sister, Claudia is furious when Janine criticizes the Baby-sitters Club and otherwise makes her feel inferior, but when Grandmother Mimi has a stroke, the sisters must bury the hatchet. Reissue.

Claudia takes a baby-sitting job looking after Betsy, a girl who is known for her practical jokes, and when one of Betsy's pranks results in a broken leg for Claudia, her baby-sitting days may be through.

Writing a Thanksgiving play for the third-grade class she coaches, Claudia is disappointed when some parents object to her less-than-traditional themes, and she must choose between letting the other kids down or fighting censorship. Original.

Claudia's awareness that she is different from her sister Janini becomes acute when she discovers that her parents have very few baby pictures of her, and she assumes that she has been adopted.

When Claudia is told that her friend Rebecca's grandmother burned all of her own famous artworks before she died, she is suspicious and sets out to find the real truth.

Claudia is getting to be fast friends with Ashley Wyeth, a new girl in town who shares Claudia's interest in art. Soon, Claudia begins neglecting her schoolwork, her other friends, even her baby-sitting, to spend time sculpting. In the end, she realizes that it's okay to have lots of interests--good friends, baby-sitting, school and art.

When Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, and Stacey, the members of the Baby-sitters Club, each receive mysterious calls while they are working, they decide to find out who is responsible.

Claudia's grief over her grandmother Mimi's death goes unexpressed--leaving Claudia unable to move forward with her life--until she pours out her emotions to her sister and learns to see beyond her pain.

In one of the strongest Babysitters Club books ever, the club must deal with a client who is abusive toward his children. Ann M. Martin addresses a difficult and important topic in her characteristic sensitive and informed style.

Claudia is so delighted with her Aunt Peaches's new baby that she can't stay away and becomes a pest.

The summer she turns 12, Hattie Owen is steeped in the routines of her small town life until the startling arrival of an uncle no one has ever spoken about. Now that Uncle Adam's "school" - an institution for the mentally disabled - is closing, Hattie's family must deal with a childlike young man whose existence they've denied for years. Hattie suddenly experiences a summer in which she learns living life fully means facing both the good times and the bad.

When the club lands a new client, Dawn is placed in the center of a family feud and the search for a mysterious family fortune.

It's summer in Stoneybrook--and the Middle School is planning a group tour to Hawaii! To raise money for the trip, Dawn signs up her brother and the Pike twins as Baby-sitters-in-Training--but they just aren't up to the job.

Dawn's the newest member of the Baby-sitters Club and everybody's glad--except Kristy. Kristy thinks things were better without Dawn around. That's why Dawn's eager to take on a big baby-sitting job. It's her chance to show Kristy what she's made of.

The Baby-sitters are convinced that smooth-talking Travis, the older boy with whom Dawn is smitten, is no good for their friend, but they are not sure how to break the news to love-struck Dawn.

Dawn enjoys her visit to California so much that she considers staying there with her father, as her brother, Jeff, has done.

Fans of the popular Baby-Sitters Club series will love the inside information and personal details packed into this mini-series portrait of Dawn, who tells what really happened when she saved two kids from a fire, why her grandparents' anniversary is important to her, and even how she nearly jeopardized the integrity of the club. Fully illustrated with snapshots, postcards, and letters.

After Dawn's mom marries Mary Ann's dad, the two friends, suddenly sisters, find their home sweet home turned into a battle front until Dawn realizes that her new stepsister only needs some room in which to breathe.

Dawn and Sunny used to be best friends. But now they're history. Still, they share one major concern: Sunny's mom, who's dying of cancer. No one else understands what they're going through. That just may be enough to reunite them.

Dawn is no longer Sunny's best friend. She is no longer Daddy's little girl. All the old pieces are falling away. Is there anyone new underneath?

Ducky's best friends used to be Jay and Alex, but now he's not so sure. Jay is a slave to coolness, and he and Alex are taking paths that Ducky doesn't want to follow. Original.

Ducky works hard to be the best friend possible. But when it comes to Alex, who is very depressed, Ducky doesn't seem to be able to do enough.

Deciding that she wants to move back to California permanently, Dawn worries about what she will say to the rest of the baby-sitters, who do not understand when they hear the news secondhand. Original.

Investigating a sudden increase in shark attacks, Jesse discovers that the Machine is setting special bait around Misty Island.

Wondering at the spooky noises she hears whenever she is at home, Dawn becomes convinced that her house is haunted when she discovers a secret passage, and the baby-sitters turn their attentions to ghost hunting. Reissue.

The McGill family is moving back to New York City, and Stacey doesn't know whether to rejoice or cry! Who will fill her place in the club when she's gone?

The members of the Baby-sitters Club face with some dismay the thought of graduating from Stoneybrook Middle School and the changes they know will follow, but feel secure in their friendships and shared memories.

Excited about dressing up for the Halloween parade, Ms. Colman's students are disappointed when the costumes fail to arrive, but they have plenty of fun wearing funny Groucho Marx eyeglasses instead. Original.

Why does it seem like the BSC is doing everything it can to keep Mallory fromjoining? Enough is enough! Mallory starts her own baby-sitting service with anew girl at school, Jessi Ramsey.

Everyone in the class is working together on holiday projects. But when a new student, Pamela, arrives, she comes between Sara and Audrey.

Gathers selections from stories by Judy Blume, Roald Dahl, Beverly Cleary, James Howe, Ann M. Martin, Patricia MacLachlan, Betty Horvath, Johanna Hurwitz, Suzy Kline, Susan Wojciechowski, Dick King-Smith, and Miriam Cohen.

Jessi's career as a pet-sitter for the Mancusi's menagerie becomes a disaster when the other baby-sitters bring their charges to see the animals.

When Derek, a child actor, returns to Stonybrook, Jessi is asked to babysit him and must soon draw the curtain on the impudent thespian's off-stage antics.

With Jessi's mother going back to work full-time, Jessi's Aunt Cecilia moves in with the Ramseys to help out, and Jessi is upset by her aunt's tough, drill-sergeant approach.

After a thrilling three-week dance program in New York City, Jessi is invited to join the Dance NY education program full-time. Is she ready to leave Stonybrook and all her friends behind?

Mollie's romance with Matt is threatened when they both enter a competition for a college scholarship and become rivals.

Fourteen-year-old Melanie can't forget the handsome, mysterious boy who was her "summer romance," and when she sees his face on the cover of "People" magazine, she is determined to learn the truth about him.

Karen gets to be an angel in the school pageant and then witnesses a heartwarming miracle when the homemade angel on her family's Christmas tree is mysteriously replaced by a beautiful one on Christmas morning.

Karen says a very sad goodbye to Ms. Colman's class and all of her friends before moving to Chicago. But after a week in the Windy City, she misses Stoneybrook so much that she decides to move back!

Karen gets in big trouble when she borrows--and loses--her stepsister Kristy's heirloom pin.

With her birthday only days away, Karen crosses her fingers in hope that her divorced parents will lay aside old grudges and come together to help her celebrate.

Karen's class is putting together a celebrity-family cookbook. Karen enters one of her grandmother's secret recipes--without permission--and learns a lesson in truthfulness.

Karen's class goes to New York City to study dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History.

It's all-girl week at the lake with Karen's family. Karen, Hannie and Nancy play at their secret clubhouse, learn to fish, tell stories around the campfire, and look for the Shadow Lake Monster!

When Karen's grandad suffers a heart attack and dies, she misses him terribly, and tries to help her grandmother cope with her own feelings of sadness.

Poor Karen is feeling ugly. Not only does she have glasses, but now her two front adult teeth have grown in and they look like "rabbit teeth". Karen and her mother go to the beauty shop for a makeover. But Gloriana snips away madly and Karen is left with a punk haircut she hates. What will she do about school tomorrow?

After Karen's class decorates a haunted house for Halloween, they begin to hear spooky noises.

Spending spring break at a resort in the Caribbean, Karen explores caves, hunts for seashells, and goes snorkeling until she meets Sandy, a quiet and seemingly standoffish seven-year-old who has an unhappy secret. Original.

Karen forms her own club with her friend Hannie, and although the girls enjoy having their own social group, they soon find that hurt feelings and battling egos are all part of the dues.

Karen tries to raise money for her school team, the Stoneybrook Krushers. Selling lemonade in a heat wave seems like a great idea at first, but soon Karen is spending more time selling and less time practicing and playing.

Karen contracts a severe case of sibling jealousy when her family adopts baby Emily and she is no longer the little sister, but she soon realizes that being someone's big sister can be just as much fun.

Karen's stepbrother, Charlie, is building a very scary monster for the Halloween parade. Then the monster disappears, and Karen thinks he has come to life.

Karen's grandad is sick. Karen wants to do something nice to cheer him up. So, she makes a movie for him. All Karen's friends are going to star in her movie.

Devastated when the family dog, Midgie, runs away, Karen is cheered when her parents adopt a new puppy named Sadie, but Karen is unprepared for the hard work and occasional disappointment associated with a new young pet. Original.

Karen wants to buy Moonbeam, a great new video game system. But helping out with a paper route to earn money is a lot more work than she bargained for.

After a visit to Plymouth Plantation, a re-created Pilgrim village, Karen comes up with the best presentation ever for her school Thanksgiving project.

Karen and her friends go to pony camp expecting to have lots of fun but discover that they have to work at it.

Karen promised her brother Andrew that they'd never be separated. When Karen's mom and stepdad announce they'll be moving to Chicago for six months--with Andrew--Karen's promise is put to the test.

Before she leaves for art camp, Karen has a fight with her best friends Hannie and Nancy, which she shares in a special puppet show.

When Karen shows off her roller-skating expertise and accidentally crashes into her brother, she ends up with a broken wrist but uses the opportunity to get everyone she knows to sign her new cast.

Karen is afraid she will make a fool of herself in front of her class and mean Ricky if she wears her new eyeglasses for her class picture.

When the buildings on Mrs. Stone's farm burn down just before Christmas, Karen, her family members, and her friends organize a gigantic fund-raiser to help their friend rebuild. Original.

Stoneybrook is preparing for a special lighting ceremony at the winter carnival, and Karen has a plan to be the one chosen to throw the master switch.

Karen is so busy! It's softball season and she's planning a party for Ms. Colman's return to school after having a baby. Then odd things start happening at team practice--equipment is disappearing, pages are ripped from Kristy's softball notebook--and Karen must solve a mystery too.

Karen and Andrew love the action movie 'Space Game'. Now they want the movie toys. But Mommy won't let Karen and Andrew have any. She does not approve of toy guns. Boo.Then Karen comes up with a sneaky plan. Will Karen and Andrew get their toys after all?

Karen's exciting plans to visit New York to see the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade are cancelled when Grandad becomes ill. So Karen creates a neighborhood version of the parade to cheer up her Grandad.

Karen is the only person who believes the circus unicorn can grant wishes, because she has some wishes she wants to come true.

Karen Brewer's imagination gets the best of her when she decides that her neighbor, Mrs. Porter--who has wild grey hair, wears black robes, and has a garden full of mysterious herbs--must be a witch and investigates the situation.

Karen's bad day begins when she falls out of bed and ends with her in tears so she is only mildly surprised to find she holds a family record for bad things happening in one day.

Kristy's friend Bart Taylor wants to be her boyfriend, but she's not sure she's ready to make that commitment.

Kristy's newest sitting job is challenging. Ten-year-old Erin was recently blinded in an accident and is not ready to rely on people. At the same time, Kristy's family is training a puppy to be a guide dog.

It's the biggest crime in Stoneybrook history--one of the town's mansions is missing! Kristy & Co. are hot on the trail of the Cat Burglar, who left his sign at the scene of the crime.

A diaper company is sponsoring Kristy's team, but the kids aren't sure they want to wear uniforms that say Davis Diapers. With Dawn in California, the baby-sitters are shorthanded, until thirteen-year-old twins show up, and the BSC gets a new member.

Kristy and her friends suspect that Cary and his Mischief Knights are vandalizing Stoneybrook Middle School. But are they? Together, the BSC members solve a series of eight puzzles--on the way to catching the real culprit.

The baby-sitters set out to give their mothers a real treat for Mother's Day--a day off with no kids around--so they take their younger siblings off on an all-day outing.

Kristy is torn between her feelings for Susan, the young autistic girl for whom she baby-sits, and the sad realization that Susan will never be one of the regular youngsters.

When baby-sitting at Shannon Kilbourne's house, Kristy must manage to stop the "war" between Shannon and her sisters, Tiffany and Maria.

Kristy didn't want to move to "Millionaire's Row", but when her mother married Watson, she had no choice. Now the snobby kids in her new neighborhood are making fun of Kristy, her ailing dog, Louie, and the club--and Kristy's fighting mad!

Participating as a bridesmaid in her mother's second wedding, Kristy struggles with mixed feelings about her new stepfather and wonders how her life will change, especially when several new siblings are added to the mix. Reissue.

Having lived in the church for many years, the people of the community come to know and love their feline friend, Leo the Magnificat, yet when the time arrives to say goodbye, they are saddened about losing their special guest but soon remember the good times they've shared. Reprint.

Assisting her two young charges to prepare for the upcoming Little Miss Stoneybrook pageant, Dawn finds trouble when her fellow baby-sitters begin helping other little girls to compete in the pageant. Reprint.

Mary Anne's beloved kitten Tigger has been missing for 24 hours and she is frantic! Will she ever find Tigger?

Maggie's got an eating disorder, and it's getting worse. This acclaimed contemporary series has been the subject of articles in "Publishers Weekly", the "Chicago Tribune", and "New York Newsday".

Maggie's dad is working on a new movie starring teen idol Tyler Kendall, but Maggie's not interested. Stars are just self-absorbed and shallow, she thinks -until she meets Tyler.

Mallory discovers an old diary in the McGill's attic written by a young girl who lived in the house in the late-nineteenth century and, in the course of reading the fascinating journal, uncovers a shocking mystery.

Kristy is thrilled to get a steady baby-sitting job for the Arnold twins and looks forward to the money she will earn, but their bad behavior proves to be a cry to be treated as individuals, and Kristy obliges.

When her family wins a contest and agrees to have their holiday celebration captured on film, the old-fashioned Christmas Mallory longs for turns into chaos with lights, cameras, and too much action.

When a fight breaks out among the members of the Baby-sitters Club, timid Mary Anne finds herself becoming more assertive as a babysitter and in her relationships with her father and friends.

The Baby-sitters Club celebrates the wedding of the year when Dawn's mother and Mary Anne's father finally decide to tie the knot.

In this spooky page-turner, Mary Anne takes a job in a bookstore which might be haunted by Edgar Allan Poe!

Learning that her friend and English partner Amelia Freeman has died in a tragic accident during spring break, a devastated Mary Anne is unable to overcome her sorrow and decides to do something special to remember her friend. Original.

Stoneybrook is going to have its own playground camp this summer, and six counseling jobs are up for grabs. When nine BSC members apply, the competition heats up to the boiling point!

Mary Anne is desperate to find her missing kitten, Tigger, and The Baby-sitters help her with her search, and in the meantime the children for whom Mary Anne babysits develop inexplicable allergies.

Mary Anne tries to find out what her eight-year-old charge knows about a mysterious fire at his house and why he's so scared to talk about it.

A discarded chain letter augers a series of bad events for Mary Anne, who is plagued by bad luck and a threatening note demanding a midnight meeting on Old Man Sutcliff's grave.

Contains information about Mary Anne, including what it was like for her growing up without a mother, her fear of performing in public, and how she got to know her grandmother.

Maggie's four-year-old stepsister has disappeared. The police have no clues. Then Maggie starts getting threatening phone calls.

Bored with their own homes, Fran and Emma agree to trade houses, but then they begin experiencing grave doubts.

Best friends Elizabeth and Tara Starr now live in different towns, but they continue their friendship through letters. Paula Danziger writes in Tara's voice, and Ann M. Martin in Elizabeth's voice, in this complex and emotionally rich novel about two friends coping with overwhelming change.

When Mallory's dad loses his job, the Baby-sitters decide to help out by getting her a job babysitting in Kristy's rich neighborhood, but the swimming pools, tennis courts, and huge houses only make Mallory feel worse.

Since its original publication in 1911, this wonderful classic has entranced generations of children with an evergreen mix of orphans, adversity, and a brilliantly honest characterization of children. Nine-year-old Mary Lennox's transformation from a petulant, spoiled child to care-free lass on the moors of England opens as the girl finds herself suddenly orphaned in India. Sent to live with her self-absorbed uncle on his huge estate in Yorkshire, Mary is charmed against her will by the cheerful Dickon, a boy who can charm wild animals. She also discovers Colin, the hidden invalid son of her uncle, who is just as spoiled as she. After Mary finds an intriguing walled garden that had not been taken care of for 10 years, the children immerse themselves in secretly tending it, and through the joy of nurturing living things, grow in health and good spirits themselves.

During a Christmas shopping spree, Mary Anne racks up a large debt on her father's credit card. Baby-sitting won't cover the charges so she takes a secret job as a department store elf to pay her father back.

Anna's slam book, a notebook in which students can anonymously write their opinions of one another, proves dangerous when unattractive Cheryl Sutphin becomes the tragic victim of events initiated in the slam book.

Now that they live in different cities, thirteen-year-old Tara and Elizabeth use email to "talk" about everything that is occuring in their lives and to try to maintain their closeness as they face big changes.

Spelling bee winner Hank is set to square off against the best speller from Mr. Berger's class. When the boys in Ms. Colman's class bet money that Hank will win, they risk ruining the contest.

When one family pays her more for cleaning and babysitting, Stacey finds out there's more to life than making more money.

Someone is trying to stop Stoneybrook Middle School's Mischief Night Dance, someone who suffered humiliation and horror at that dance long ago.

Kristy and the other kids of Stoneybrook suspect that the old, deserted house slated to be demolished soon sits over a graveyard and that restless spirits lurk beneath its foundation.

Stacey's class is selling "valentine-grams", packets of secret messages and candy that kids can send to each other. When someone steals the bag of messages, Stacey becomes a super sleuth to find the culprit and save Valentine's Day.

Stacey and Robert had a stormy breakup. Months later, Robert is moody and depressed, and the only person he'll talk to about it is Stacey.

Stacey invites her Baby-sitters Club friends down for a weekend in New York City, but the big city creates big problems for the girls.

Stacey wants to give Tess, a new girl in school, some fashion advice, but she does not take it.

Now fans can star in their own Little Sister book by recording their adventures all summer long! This book includes fill-ins for weekend trips, summer reading, camp adventures, and holidays, plus a section for autographs, drawings, ticket stubs, photos, and more.

I hate my life. Despise it. P" would trade it in a minute for anyone else's. That's all I have to say. Good night. Living. Dying. Run. Sunny wants to be anywhere but home. Her mom is dying of cancer. So she cuts school, hangs out at the beach, and considers leaving home...for good.

Since the beginning of the series, readers have known that Sunny's mother is sick. Now, Mrs. Winslow's struggle with cancer reaches its final chapter and Sunny is left with many unresolved issues. Presented in a personal, first-person journal format.

The author of the enormously popular The Baby-Sitters Club has created a new series aimed at 6- to 9-year olds. Nancy Dawes is looking for a second grade best friend, and finds one when a generous classmate comes to her aide during Ms. Colman's class Pet Day.

When Stacey's parents decide to get divorced, Stacey must choose between her father's apartment in the city and her mother's home in Stoneybrook, where her friends in the Baby-Sitters Club anxiously await her return.

Abby Stevenson and her twin sister, Anna, the new girls in town, are trying to adjust to everything new and help their hardworking, fatherless family.

Shirley, a fourth-grader with dyslexia, struggles with her feelings of inferiority as she compares herself to her intellectually gifted older brother and newly adopted Vietnamese sister.