Super Specials #1-15

Baby-Sitters on Board
Baby-Sitters' Summer Vacation
Baby-Sitters' Winter Vacation
Baby-Sitters' Island Adventure
California Girls!
New York, New York!
Snowbound
Baby-Sitters at Shadow Lake
Starring the Baby-Sitters Club!
Sea City, Here We Come!
The Baby-Sitters Remember
Here Come the Bridesmaids!
Aloha, Baby-Sitters!
BSC in the USA
Baby-Sitters' European Vacation

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#1 Baby-Sitters on Board

Main narrator: Kristy
Mr. Pike wins a vacation for naming a product.
Kristy has a new camera from Watson.
Dawn says she's been on dozens of plane walkways and she has flown back and forth 11 times.
Kristy has never been anywhere.
Margo uses her barf bag.
Kristy is a slob and Dawn is spotless?
Mary Anne seems disappointed that she can't gamble.
Mallory's favorite group is The Insects and she thinks she meets Spider, the lead singer. Spider is famous for hitting himself in the mouth with an electric guitar, leading to his missing tooth.
Karen needs to wear ear plugs in the water. Everyone else needs them when she's around.
Dawn's on the prowl!
According to Claudia, people in CT are rude about pictures.
Kristy refers to Nannie as "her nannie."
Nannie is 73 and her favorite book is The Mayor of Casterbridge. She's read it once a year since she was 15.
Dawn likes: Parker Harris (he kisses her cheek)
Claudia likes: Timothy Carmody (he kisses her lips)
Stacey has a Ping Pong table in her basement.
Darien, CT is not too far from Stoneybrook.
Dawn doesn't get cable.
Dawn, Kristy, and Claudia haven't seen any thing R-rated.
"JUNK FOOD!" -Claudia.
Dawn wears a bracelet that belonged to her great aunt.
Mallory calls people retarded.
Vanessa takes 15-20 minutes in the bathroom. Maybe she needs a laxative.
Byron checks out a pirate's hairy legs.
Fights: Dawn vs Kristy

#2 Baby-Sitters' Summer Vacation

Main narrator: Stacey
Stacey's reading The Catcher in the Rye. Reading in the car gives her a headache.
Stacey got a body wave- she doesn't want any more perms :(
Dawn apparently has cable now.
Dawn and Claudia have been to camp before.
Mimi's real name starts with L.
Dawn's counselor looks healthy in a soap commercial way.
One of Dawn's campers tells dirty jokes.
Jo is a counselor with a mohawk.
Mr. Ramsey's first name is Alex. Which totally doesn't make sense if Squirt is John Philip Ramsey, Jr.
WAHH! Everyone in Jessi's cabin has a name starting with Ma and no one else is black!
"She reminded me an awful lot of Mallory, only in a good way." Page 64.
Claire has Frodo all to herself.
Logan's fellow CITs want to watch dirty movies.
Logan gets his first love note from Mary Anne.
Henry and Cliff steam up their shades from laughing.
Stacey has herpes.
Becca is a crappy dancer and clumsy.
Becca and another girl (both 8 years old) pee their pants.
Claudia likes: Will Yamakawa from Ashfield, NY
The Kishis want Claudia to marry a Japanese boy.
Dawn is good at math but can't read maps.
Logan writes a gay postcard to Hunter and Kerry.
Randi brings a big needle to camp.
Logan wears a sweater around his shoulders.
Claudia thinks Will is a funny name.
Nonie has a Sean Connery lisp-thing.
Stacey tests her urine every day.
Mr. Ramsey carries Squirt around IN A BACKPACK.
Mary Anne says she'll NEVER get pierced ears.
Kristy sometimes wear mascara.

#3 Baby-Sitters' Winter Vacation

Main narrator: Mary Anne
The trip to the lodge is mandatory. Except for Logan, who goes to Aruba.
Claudia is a very good skier and has her own stuff. She and Kristy are the best skiers at SMS.
There are 382 SMS students at the lodge.
Boys started crying on the bus.
That racist lady still lives across the street from Jessi.
Kristy's getting punchy on page 30.
Mary Anne writes a funny letter to Logan. She includes a whole page of x's and o's.
Stacey likes: Pierre D'Amboise. His voice is changing and it turns Stacey on.
Stacey has ~~dirty~~ personal thoughts about Pierre.
Dawn has skied in CA and Vail, CO.
Mary Anne is a believe in dentures and hates when adults are missing teeth.
Mal sounds like her mother when she says "for pity's sake."
Jessi freaks out about being black some more. Sigh.
Dawn sometimes hangs out with Dori.
Alvin Hopper is nerdy and has allergies.
Mary Anne worries her house burned down...ummm.
The vice-principal is single.
Mal dances with Justin Price all night.
Ethel Tines is fat!
Fights: Dawn vs Mary Anne, Dawn vs Kristy (kind of), Kristy vs Claudia (kind of)

#4 Baby-Sitters' Island Adventure

Main narrator: Dawn
Dawn has passed live-saving tests (water).
Claudia has gone sailing every summer on vacation.
Hunter sometimes gets asthma attacks.
Squirt hates thunder.
Aunt Cecelia lives in Queenstown, CT.
The Ramseys leave Jessi, Becca, and Squirt alone for 3 days.
Jeff and Mr. Schafer usually eat supper at 7 pm.
Jeff calls Carol "the Hair Queen."
Jamie had walking pneumonia.
Page 47- the picture shows the wrong people in the boats.
Jessi keeps a journal because Mallory told her to.
Boats, helicopters, and small planes search for them.
Jamie: "I'm afraid of my dreams!"
Mary Anne's mom is talking to people at night again, on page 108.
First club meeting ever at the Pike's.
Dawn speaks up at a meeting, while she's stuck on the island.
Stacey must have eyes like an eagle.
Picture on p. 208: Mallory is a huge beast girl.
Aunt Cecelia writes like Jessi.
Fights: Mary Anne vs Logan, Mary Anne vs Dawn, Kristy vs Bart

#5 California Girls!

Main narrator: Dawn
The baby-sitters gamble (Claudia's a pro) and their parents enable them.
Watson grew up in his mansion.
Sometimes Mary Anne acts like Dawn is a barbarian because she has TWO holes in each ear.
Claudia absolutely loves spaghetti.
Counts: Fresh-4, Distant- 2, Dibble- 2
You can go to berry farms in CT.
Carol is about 32.
Claudia likes: Terry Liang
Jeff and Rob are Deadheads and they have a fight over who's the biggest Deadhead.
Another illegitimate child of Richard- Lisa Meri.
Mary Anne can't ride boys' bikes.
Mr. Pike is going by "Daniel."
"Just ducky," said Dawn. Foreshadowing.
Woody Woodpecker walks around- mentioned 4 times.
Jenny wants her new sibling to be named Yucky Toilet.
Mary Anne smells King Kong's banana breath.
In NY, Stacey saw/heard a crane fall on a car.
Stacey bought a huge Porky Pig and she can imitate him perfectly.
Fights: Mal vs Jessi (their first fight)

#6 New York, New York!

Main narrator: Claudia
Stacey almost says "hell."
Chilly count: 11
Kristy's MOM (not Kristy or Nannie) takes Emily to the bathroom.
Stacey loves signalling waiters.
The Cummings must have a million spare keys.
Richie has his hair in a chilly tail.
Things Mallory wants to learn how to draw: bunnies, mice, fat mushrooms, cute little bugs, & cats wearing clothes.
Jessi + Quint = ballerina love and Jessi's first kiss
Quint Walter's siblings: Morgan- 6 year old imp, Tyler- 9 years old and lost to the world of computers
Mallory imagines a story about Ryan and Meghan Mouse, who are being chased by an evil gnome
Jessi says Mallory gets teased, but is cut off before she can say why
Alistaire and Rowena dress like dorks.
Mallory's privacy complex, haha.
Sallie cleans the Cummings' apartment.
Richie is punctual and Dawn loves punctual.
Does Dawn have a crush on Richie? He thinks she's irregular.
Mythology is so chilly.
Jessi's Bad Joke Alert, p. 230.
Fights: Claudia vs Mallory

#7 Snowbound

Main narrator: Kristy
Karen wears sweater pants.
Bart has a little brother.
Winter Wonderland Dance: Claudia/Iri Mitsuhashi, Mary Anne/Logan, Kristy/Bart, Mal/Ben, Jessi/ Quint, Dawn/Price Irving, Stacey/Austin
Claudia plans to wear a "black velvet knicker outfit" to the dance.
Jeff has a friend named Oliver.
Bizzer Sign! and Crumble. Page 38.
Stacey gives us advice about looking beautiful. And she gets a brand new fluffy perm.
Stacey likes Shout It! by the Tin Can Voices.
Washington Mall has a neon Santa and reindeer
Kristy rents Uncle Buck and Back to the Future. Creepy Charlie drives her to the video store.
Jessi is the King of the Mice in The Nutcracker.
"Doo-wah" said Mal. So weird!
Dawn's neighbors, the Bahadurians, have a mailbox shaped like a cow.
What swear word does Sharon use??
Bart sleeps over at Kristy's and Quint sleeps at Jessi's.
The Perkins have a cat named Socks Sebastian Perkins.
Myriah and Gabbie kiss their cats' tails.
The picture of Nicky on page 159 is frightening.
This is the first time Stacey uses her injection kit for an emergency.
Stacey says she's never fallen in love yet- so what's with all her boyfriends? What a ho!
At the dance school, Jessi and Quint hang out with little kids rather than their peers at first.
Mr. Wozneski owns a cafe in Stamford and gives the dancers free breakfast.
Logan and Byron say gross things to each other.
There's no real food at the Pike's so they have a hay-day with gross combos.
Kristy, butch as usual, sometimes wishes she was a boy. How many boys do you know who pluck their eyebrows, put on make-up, and curl their hair?
Kristy shaves her legs for the first time and uses an electric razor.
The pipes in Watson's house are old and noisy.
Charlie owns a hairdryer! Haha.
Austin doesn't shave, but he wears after-shave.

#8 Baby-Sitters at Shadow Lake

Main narrator: Kristy
Flop socks galore! Mentioned 4 times.
If someone were purple...
Once the 8th graders went on a trip to Stamford and it took a line of buses.
Mal's got chiggers.
Mallory creates an embarrassing towel head-dress for herself. Then she finds a safari hat to put over the towel and adds mosquito netting to it. She also wears gardening gloves.
"Yo" is something Stacey says beacuse she is from NYC.
Kristy's mom wears a bikini.
Kristy's mom and David Michael have a secret barbecue sauce.
David Michael can pick up Shannon.
Claudia spells Andrew as Andrea.
Claudia gives a smart-sounding definition of "starving artist."
Andrew's stupid song- Gummity gummity woop! p. 113.
Charlie's been shaving for a few months and he sort of has whiskers. Sam wants to use Charlie's shaving style.
Hannie wants to be an Olympic swimmer.
Emily has a pacifier for "emergencies."
Sam is right-handed.
Sam blossomed like a flower.

#9 Starring the Baby-Sitters Club!

Main narrator: Jessi
Jessi becomes the 6th grade correspondent for the SMS Express.
Cokie and Grace watch General Hospital.
Jessi snorts...like a horse!
Buddy is a good dancer.
Ben is the apprentice lighting director for the play.
Mallory has touched Ben a few times.
How would Sam feel about Mallory Pike stretching a measuring tape around his waist? (We know how Charlie would feel!)
Logan and the other pirates are fooling around.
Charlie might be friends with Lucas Danver, a gorgeous guy.
Logan plays Noodler...how appropriate.
Logan sounds like he's stereotyping Indians.
Charlie isn't Mr. Stud but he's had "several girlfriends."
Sometimes Nannie gets fed up with Sam.
Karen wants to pee as Tinker Bell.
Dawn wants to take a group nap...weird.
Peaches got a perm.
Stacey straddles Claudia's desk chair.
Mimi might be floating around somewhere.
The Kishis have a portable TV.
Stacey can't stand barfing "or anything remotely connected to it."
Jessi and Pete Black must be about the same size.
Stacey likes: Sam
Fights: Jessi vs the BSC

#10 Sea City, Here We Come!

Ghostwriter: Peter Lerangis
Main narrator: none
Stacey is now the Barrett's main sitter instead of Dawn.
Stacey wants to be bronze.
Dawn has an "alternate life style."
Ew...Toby likes Mallory. And later he likes Jessi.
Mallory thinks Toby has luscious eyes.
Stacey says Mrs. Barrett has a "Cosmo-model" figure.
Mr. McGill is hot and sweltering.
Nicky tries to lick Margo.
Crabs for Grabs! Weiner's Weiners!
Kristy would consider recruiting Boo-Boo for the Krushers.
Bart's hair always looks like he's just come from a stylist.
Does the phrase "cocked his bat' make you laugh?
Jake Kuhn has anxiety attacks.
Margo sucks at spelling on page 75 and is a huge beast girl on page 79.
The Hobart boys sleep in short shorts.
Claudia brought her remote to school isntead of her calculator.
Logan refers to himself as "Commander-in-Chief" and "General Logan."
It's busboy tradition to call the Rosebud the Road Spud.
Logan thinks Alex is good-looking.
Jessi says she's glad they aren't in Jamaica because of the storm...but Jessi, Jamaica is so black!
Mal writes to Mrs. McGill and calls her Mrs. McGillicuddy. That is really, really weird.
Mallory looks like a ripe hairy tomato when she blushes.
Alex and Toby think Logan looks like Cam Geary.
Logan is the youngest busboy but he's so good they give him double the work.
Adam Pike wants to eat Spam.
Mr. Pike is quiet and easy-going.
Why the hell does Karen have a chapter?
Buddy wants to see dead bodies on the streets after the hurricane.
Logan has a new friend named Terry from the Rosebud.
Logan can't stop thinking about Alex (gay!)
Mention of Mal and Ben's card catalog fight.
Toby baby-sits a Peter. Another example of Peter Lerangis naming a character "Peter."
Fights: Stacey vs Mallory

#11 The Baby-Sitters Remember

Main narrator: Kristy
Mal comes to the sleepover barefoot and Claudia wears a bikini top instead of a shirt.
The Thomas' had a housekeeper, Mrs. Culp.
Louie was a puppy when David Michael was a baby.
Stacey wanted to play soccer in 6th grade.
Claudia didn't like Mr. Thomas. She seemed afraid of him.
Claudia = Caludia.
Jessi's mom had 2 miscarriages (1 girl and 1 boy).
Jessi didn't want Squirt because babies smell.
Jessi's mom wears big underwear. A booty??
Hunter is interested in dumps...the perfect hick.
Logan thinks his hick teeth are strange looking.
"Ah've had plenty of expurience!"
Shannon's friends are Polly, Lindsey, Greer, and Meg.
It's somewhat explained why Shannon was a biotch to Kristy in #11.
Amelia Moody adds personlized PS's, just like Ann!

#12 Here Come the Bridesmaids!

Ghostwriter: Peter Lerangis
Main narrator: Dawn
A 9th grader named Chip Ransom flirts with Maggie at Vista Hills mall.
Maggie's style is hyper-cool and robo-cool.
Shannon has a luminous and radiant smile.
Ben loves to sing. Mallory is a bad singer.
Jessi's 11 years old, female...and black, remember?
Jamie Newton is making timid little roaring noises and giggling.
Ben breathes like an angry bull.
Mr. Barrett's in Milwaukee.
Kristy, Claudia, and Mary Anne visit Dawn at Vista.
Maggie's gross outfit: dreadlocks (2 dyed green and red), "crazy neon-patterned jumpsuit", under a cotton jacket with shoulder pads.
Jessi's Daddy is 6'2" and weights 200 pounds.
Kristy brings her whistle to CA to boss everyone around with.
Jamie Newton is so funny!!: "Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree, don't fall on my head."
Shannon's favorite smell in the world is pine.
Jack and Carol are going to have their honeymoon at Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
The cake of Dawn's face sounds a little creepy but Dawn eats it and loves it.
Franklin and Luggin' Logan move a piano together- super strong guys!
Suzi has a baloney dance. Now Buddy needs a sandwich meat activity since Marnie has the ham face.
Franklin wears red pajamas (silk?).
Kristy would whip people to go faster if she owned a whip.
Richard is not exactly the cuddly type.
Hunter has a great ear and perfect hands so the Brunos get Franklin's piano, from Luggin' Logan.
Fights: Mary Anne vs Dawn

#13 Aloha, Baby-Sitters!

Ghostwriter: Peter Lerangis
Main narrator: Jessi
Stacey says Kristy dresses like a caveman.
A nice list of Abby's allergies is on page 22.
Mrs. Stevenson wanted to talk about diarrhea.
Alan Gray's pinhead sets off the metal detector.
Logan wanted to get leid.
Mr. De Young, the boys' gym teacher, is built like Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Claudia eats a whole bag of Dorits before breakfast.
SMS doesn't have a volleyball team. Sorry, Logan.
Dawn used to get carsick.
Dawn thinks that people who eat meat (carnivores!) deserve to choke and die.
Dawn has seen Gilligan.
Mary Anne is German and Norwegian.
Stacey has a very bad case of PMS in this book.
Dawn hates the phrase ecologically correct.
Mary Anne plays video games with Scott and Lani.
Jessi is like a trash magnet.
Jessi takes at least 13 rolls of pictures.
"Everybody's gone surfin over Logan's head" -a song by Pete and Alan.
Logan is a pound master.

#14 BSC in the USA

Ghostwriter: Peter Lerangis
Main narrator: Dawn
Mr. Thomas has visited once sinze he left and contacts Kristy once or twice a year.
Mallory's hair is floppy.
Jessi's Daddy's brothers are named Arthur and John...so her grandparents named their sons Arthur, John, and John.
Jessi's grandpa Arthur doesn't wear his choppers.
Info on Jessi's family- p.42
Alison laughed at Jessi's black people statues.
OMG! Mallory is RACIST!
Jessi's dad had an afro.
Stacey and Ethan have only met once.
Misty of Chincoteague is stuffed.
U4Me and Blade aren't in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame :(
Watson went to Baylor University.
Kristy washes her hair with soap sometimes.
Mary Anne says she was a bridesmaid in Mr. Schafer's wedding.
Dawn harasses a vendor serving bratwurst, calling it "stuffed animal entrails."
Dawn opens her eyes to the excitement in South Dakota.
Abby's hair can sense tornadoes.
Ethan has a stepsister in college and a little brother.
Processed dead pig slabs!
Andrew can read.
Fights: Stacey vs Claudia

#15 Baby-Sitters' European Vacation

Ghostwriter: Peter Lerangis
Main narrator: Jessi
Mal has cousins all over the globe.
Mal and Jessi share passion.
Dawn went on a family trip to France.
Gay Abby has to remind herself not to kiss the queen on the lips.
Stacey's family went to Ireland.
Stacey asks Robert if this is his first flight (didn't she go to Hawaii with him? And didn't Peter write that as well?)
Alan sits on the luggage carousel and stops it.
Alan acts like a terrorist.
Michel wears a black shirt like ones pirates wore (he looks like Fabio).
Mal writes about William Blake portraits.
Mallory looks like her mother.
Mrs. Pike's maiden name is Bennett.
Abby's hair is a mountain majesty and her face is a fruited plain.
Hewwo, you scwewy Queen.
Mal brought a night light to Europe.

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