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Funlaughjokeplay@reddit

These books were the reason I began working at 12 babysitting.

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Diligent_Kitchen7705@reddit

These, Trixie Belden and the Boxcar children... first real books I read as a kid. GREAT memories. Would kill to have the Trixie Belden books again!

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Ok_Construction357@reddit

I did. I always rolled my eyes at how they described them. Almond shaped eyes almond shaped eyes. I get it dammit get on with the story

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paincavenugz@reddit

I always just skipped the second chapter where everyone is described lol. 🥱

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I’m glad lots of people loved these but I read a few and just felt like some of the characters were so privileged and sheltered. I guess they had adventures?? But it seemed so whitewashed and precocious to young me.

I had to babysit younger family members a lot, so it was not good escapism. Also the various “everything will turn out ok” series never cut it. I wanted something more realistic.

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Fun_Committee1478@reddit

Oh man!!! I wish I still had mine!!! I used to read like 3 of these a week.

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pixeequeen84@reddit

There's actually r/babysittersclub and I recently spent an embarrassing amount of money buying some of the books on Kindle.

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LoudRevolution9163@reddit (OP)

Oh wow, I had no idea. It's pretty active, too! Thanks. :)

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CloseButNoChicory@reddit

Me! It's how I learned what life was like in America.

(Well, it's what I THOUGHT life in America was like...)

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GrumpyKaeKae@reddit

I can smell this picture. I dont remember what I read but I do remember the smell of looking at them in the school library.

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Wise_Sprinkles4772@reddit

I LOVED these books!!!!

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No-Business9779@reddit

As a girl, I hated that these were what was expected of us to read. No thanks. Hated babysitting in real life and hated reading about it too. Throw in the American Girl books too 🙄.

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Interesting-Ice-8227@reddit

10, Logan Likes Mary Anne was downright SCANDALOUS back in 1985-ish and the ideal appetizer for advancement to Flowers in the Attic a few years later.

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redclover83@reddit

Ann Martin signed my copy of BSC #1: Kristy's Great Idea at a meet and greet at our mall when I was 10 or 11 ❤️

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kimberoony@reddit

Omg how fun. When I was a late kid/early teen going through a fairly destructive streak, I took a sharpie and pretended I was autographing a bunch of my books and CDs. I wrote in a ton my of BSC books, and I still remember that I wrote, “Thanks for reading my books! - Ann M. Martin”

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switheld@reddit

woooowwww!!!!

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ResurgentClusterfuck@reddit

I read them and kept them in order by number and chronology. The Super Specials always bugged me because the timeline wasn't the clearest to me

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zenigmatic@reddit

Ahh I liked the size and how white the super specials were! Was there one on a cruise??

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kimberoony@reddit

I think it was Disney cruise, and they went to Disney World before or after the cruise? I just remember Kristy’s lil sis Karen (who had her own line of books) had several chapters in the Super Special, and I was so jealous because it sounded so fun and my family would never be able to do that.

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ResurgentClusterfuck@reddit

I believe the first Super Special was of them all going on a cruise yes

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WereFlyingOverTrout@reddit

We are the same, I too kept them in order and had trouble placing the special ones in between the numbered ones.

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Earth2Kim@reddit

There are graphic novels now and my 9 year old, manga-fan, loves them. There was a new TV show too I came across her watching, which wildly has the same theme song! I have a box full of the ancient texts in the attic I will absolutely be pulling down for her.

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SquirrelEnthusiast@reddit

And the baby sitters club little sister! I work in a library and these books are HUGELY popular.

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kteerin@reddit

This makes me so happy!

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Biddy_Impeccadillo@reddit

I love this!

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jaded-ragdoll@reddit

The original Babysitter’s Club theme song?? As in “Say hello to your friends…” And yes! I remember most if not all the lyrics. But I forget where I put my glasses, keys, phone…car!

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Shipwrecking_siren@reddit

“Say hello to the peeeeeoooooppplleee who-o caaaare”

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jaded-ragdoll@reddit

Nothing’s better than friends!

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twofevers@reddit

Babysitter’s Club!

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clutzycook@reddit

Are you talking about the Netflix one?

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Earth2Kim@reddit

Yes!

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sorrymizzjackson@reddit

Ugh. That paper was like the pringles of paper. I miss its chunkiness.

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emacextrabrut80@reddit

Me me meeee. The Super Specials were my fave

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elliemff@reddit

I wanted to be Stacey so bad even to the point of trying to fake diabetes symptoms. I was such a weird kid.

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Trick-Session2388@reddit

I wanted to be Dawn, so I was on a quest to find out what arrowroot was at my podunk town grocery store. I did not find it there.

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bunzburnerrr@reddit

Don't forget the carob Dawn was into

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Trick-Session2388@reddit

I actually tried to get into carob but it just did not work for me.

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bunzburnerrr@reddit

Every time I play "carob" in a word game, I think of Dawn. Thanks for making me smile with your Dawn comment

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clutzycook@reddit

I was impressed by her double pierced ears. It seemed like the height of edginess to my Podunk raised self. I had to lobby HARD for one hole when I was 12. I didn't get my second one until I was almost 20.

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SparklyTree_1754@reddit

HA! I knew I got my idea for a second ear piercing somewhere! I’d forgotten that detail.

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Kitten_Mittens@reddit

I was more a Maryanne but I SO wanted to be a Claudia....I remember trying to hide candy around my room just like her, even though my parents were typical 80s parents who didn't give a shit what I ate.

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LauraPa1mer@reddit

Oh my god core memory unlocked. I started hiding candy in my room because of this too!!!

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Sopranohh@reddit

I was a kid with type 1 diabetes, and Stacey was the only fictional person 7 year old me had seen that had it. I felt seen and less alone.

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BlueberryLove2@reddit

Such memories. I read all the books and still remember hiding candy in my room like Claudia. My fave book overall was the cruise special.

For those of you who like musicals, it’s being worked right now, and if all goes well will premiere on Broadway as early as spring next year.

https://playbill.com/article/get-ready-for-a-baby-sitters-club-musical

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MissBee123@reddit

Babysitters Club is still right next to my Boxcar Children, Goosebumps, and Fear Street! I'm saving them for my kids when they are older!

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reallyneedausername2@reddit

Glad I’m not alone!! They still bring me joy.

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needabreak38@reddit

My YA section is in need of some major organizing…

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ommnian@reddit

Boxcar children were sooo me. Apparently they're not "PC" anymore, which makes me kinda sad...

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plantverdant@reddit

Aw that's too bad. Not too surprising though, they were published so long ago our grandparents probably read them

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

Fear Street nostalgia is real!

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No_Custard_6481@reddit

I wanted to be a boxcar kid so bad!! I read BSC too but I was not a good babysitter. Actually terrible. Boxcar was my dream life. Living free making my own life. It’s funny I live next to the railroad tracks. I always think about those books 30 years later!

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redclover83@reddit

I loved the Boxcar Children!

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SpookySchatzi@reddit

I definitely ate some cornbread in milk at some point for breakfast because it sounded so delicious in the books.

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Traditional_Isopod80@reddit

That's quite a collection.

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thoughtfractals85@reddit

Can we be friends? I miss my Goosebumps and Fear Street books so much! I loved BSC too, but the spooky stuff was my jam!

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MissBee123@reddit

Come on over! I still love reading Fear Street on occasion for fun, it's such a nostalgic treat.

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laydeebug1678@reddit

I did! My daughter started reading them after she got into the Netflix show. It was really cool to be able to share something like this with her. ❤️

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scrollmom@reddit

The New York super special had me in a chokehold. I wanted to go to Tavern on the Green, and the Dakota, and Soho SO BAD because of that book.

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neodraykl@reddit

I read them all but #89. I could never find that one.

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Aethyr42@reddit

'Kristy and the Dirty Diapers'? What if I had a link for you? Wouldn't that be weird

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Dextersvida@reddit

I loved those books!

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Tricky-Machine7046@reddit

Every. Single. One. And I studied those covers like my life depended on it🥹

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PrttyPussSoupp1@reddit

Omg YES! Me 💯 and I loved them.

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OutlawEarth616@reddit

Had all of them. Still enjoy reading them every now and then. And I just turned 45 this year. :)

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switheld@reddit

the more modern tv series is a total delight! it caters to us older fans and would be super appropriate and fun for kids

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Writing_Femme@reddit

I owned the first 125 books and the Super Specials. I looked forward to each new book coming out.

I love that feeling of waiting excitedly for a book and then finally buying it. I'm not sure if there's a word for it, but I think there should be.

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Kitten_Mittens@reddit

Our local Walden bookstore in the mall knew to hold a copy of each new book for me. I can remember the excitement of my mom taking me there to pick it up. Any idea how frequently they were released? I feel like they must have been pumping them out every few months, at least!

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switheld@reddit

once a month. I worked at Waldenbooks as a teen. best job ever for a reading fanatic!!!

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RaulaLive@reddit

Same! My mom would drop me off at the bookstore while she hit up the grocery store in the same plaza. I had my $3.50 (NH, no tax) +- depending on the release, and always left triumphant. Once they got into a rhythm with the super series and mysteries, it truly felt monthly! Or I’d tap a Karen book if I needed a quick fix lol

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switheld@reddit

surely the germans must!

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LoudRevolution9163@reddit (OP)

Yes! I wish I had books to look forward to like that. I need to find a series that I can relate to again.

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miranym@reddit

I don't quite relate to them but Dungeon Crawler Carl is that book series for me now. I just finished book 3 and I'm plotting when to get the next one at the bookstore. I haven't had a series to look forward to in a while and it really is fun to have the promise of new books like this.

Anyway, on topic...I read a handful of BSC books as a kid and then read them ALL as an adult when I needed a soothing reading project. I even read the new graphic novels as they come out...because the world is shittier than ever and I need the escape.

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zenigmatic@reddit

Yes! I am not sure about actual relatability, but the language choice and familiar voice hooks me. I am in book 4 of Dungeon Crawler Carl in audio. But for physical books I was pleasantly surprised by the Riley Thorn mysteries!

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clorrama@reddit

I came here to find who else had 125 + the super specials… and found my husbands current series Dungeon Crawler Carl.

The Clan of the Cave Bear is an amazing series, 6 books. Highly recommend.

I love you all, BSC friends. 💛

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Enough_Shoulder_8938@reddit

DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED

Not only did I read a ton of the books as a youth, I wanted to be an artist and draw illustrations like the covers of those books.

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rarepinkhippo@reddit

DAWN FOREVER!!!

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Trick-Session2388@reddit

Was anybody else convinced they were going to find a secret passage in their house?

My parents planned and built the house themselves and reassured me that I would not find a secret passage. But I did not believe them and I would go around pressing on corners and little things that would hopefully open up a new door. I never found a secret passage.

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phillysleuther@reddit

I read The BSC. I didn’t love them like I loved Taffy Sinclair/The Fabulous Five, but they were close.

I’ll never forget Claudia and The Sad Goodbye. My grandmother died right as that book came out, and it helped me deal with her loss.

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AdoraSkater@reddit

I read every single one. Many multiple times! My daughter has gotten in to the graphic novels and we've watched the Netflix show together so many times. It makes me so happy she loves the series the way I did!

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punky100@reddit

I read all of the ones my library had.

I even bought a special tin when they had some kind of anniversary special box.

I wanted to be all of them lol

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bluejane@reddit

I read them every chance I got. About once a month I'd spend the night at Grandma's and one of the first things we'd do is go to the B. Dalton's and pick out two more books. I'd be good for weekend. My favorite was Claudia, I just thought she was so cool

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SilentDrapeRunner11@reddit

I wasn't as invested in them as I was for Sweet Valley, but I was on a nostalgia kick the other day and watched the film from 1995 just for the hell of it.

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punkrockprissy@reddit

I still have a few of them! I loved Claudia.

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Specialist_Action_85@reddit

Omg yes, then I graduated to Sweet Valley High

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druscilla333@reddit

I read the little sister collection, my big sister read this one

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Ginger630@reddit

Absolutely!!! I loved those books!

I also read the Sweet Valley Twins’ books and BSB Little Sister books.

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iamreeterskeeter@reddit

I had all of them. My parents were thrilled I wanted to read they never complained about the cost. About 10 years ago we were downsizing mom's house and i found them all. We had a yard sale and I gave the entire set to a little girl. It was like passing on the wonder to the next generation.

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iiooiooi@reddit

Boxcar Children over here.

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wonkotsane42@reddit

Sitting up in a tree with one of these bad boys! I was living my happiness and didn't even know it

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I_AM_DEATH-INCARNATE@reddit

My daughter just got a babysitters club graphic novel at her school bookstore! She's loving it. I was always a Hardy Boys fan, but my sister read Babysitters Club growing up

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tribalgeek@reddit

Not the books, but I do remember the videos. My cousins were into the books and videos so whenever I'd visit I'd end up watching at least one of them.

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Crazy_Breadfruit4535@reddit

I read so many out of order because our small library didn’t have a large selection of these books. I can remember trading them with my sister after we finished too

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Top-Wolverine-8684@reddit

I was obsessed, and my parents haaaaaated them because they put ideas in my head about what being 11-13 was like that was absolutely ludicrous.

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zenigmatic@reddit

Hmm, what was ludicrous? I remember my mom hated them because I always asked for more and dragged them with me everywhere (if I left one in the shower it got thrown out, devastated!) But I don’t recall anything being quite out of expected age.

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Clevergirlphysicist@reddit

I know for sure I owned and read 1, 4, and 6 from this pic

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EggDull5680@reddit

I loved these books - I always related the most to Claudia.

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sorrymizzjackson@reddit

Oh, I wanted to be a Claudia, but I was definitely the uncool kid who was not a named character.

I do, however, bring a bit of Claudia Kishi and her grandmother to my eclectic vintage wardrobe now.

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unlovelyladybartleby@reddit

So many of us Kristys and Maryannes grew up funky and eclectic because we wanted to be Claudia

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zenigmatic@reddit

Hmm you may have something there. felt like Maryanne but wanted to be Claudia here but I am surprised this year to have learned I am the Phoebe in my friend group. Maybe am more zany than traditional as I thought. 😂

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shallottmirror@reddit

Who went directly from BSC to…V.C Andrews?

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jojocookiedough@reddit

Meeee!! I started reading them in 2nd grade and wound up collecting them all the way into junior high! I had an entire bookshelf dedicated to them. Then my family moved to a new city in a very chaotic way and I'm not sure what happened to them now that I think about it. 🤔

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legsjohnson@reddit

Ann M Martin worked at my brother's school and I got to meet her

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Plumeria9798@reddit

I read these until well past the age for them (I know I read past 100 too and by the time those were published I was at least 13, haha.) It maddened my mother but they were my comfort books. I still have a bunch of them.

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MaddyKet@reddit

Dude I read them until they published the last one. I had put all that time into it, I wanted to know how it ended.

Also the older you got, you could read it in like 30 minutes.

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Plumeria9798@reddit

This is true, they’d go super fast at that point. I don’t think I got to the very end but it was probably close. Haha!

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Spiritual_Smile9882@reddit

I think my sister had all of these books.

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One_Cryptographer940@reddit

It bugs me that books 3 and 7 are missing from this pic. 😂 I was addicted to these books for 2 or 3 years, but I think I only read up to about book 20, and the first "super-special" edition. When I first got into them, I even wrote a fan letter to the author and got a reply back, which I shared with my class at show-and-tell. The first 5 books were the most superior IMO, and I read them repeatedly. I loved the handwritten journal entries!

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Choice-Marsupial-127@reddit

I still remember exactly where these were in my grade school library. Read them all.

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Dramatic_Suspect_3@reddit

I read them, loved them and started my own club.

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

My little sister read them. I read Soup and the Great Brain

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drudman6@reddit

1983 M

I read probably like 50-60 of these, especially the Super Specials, the one where they go to Jersey Shore I loved!

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Equivalent-Mousse-93@reddit

The way I wished my parents loved me enough to bring my friends who otherwise wouldn’t be on the trip to join us on vacations….

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momlv@reddit

Aaagh love the shout out from the fellas!

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FarmerMom1943@reddit

My daughter read them too ❤️

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Nouvell_vague@reddit

Me! Like every single one. Also the Pen Pals books.

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batastronaut@reddit

Dawn's outfit on that 4th cover takes me back. The older girls at my school dressed like that and I idolized it

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Porcupine__Racetrack@reddit

These, Saddle Club, Sweet Valley High….

I read soooo many books (still do) so anything with a lot of books in a series was fantastic!!

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dontcallmemailgirl@reddit

Saddle Clubbbb! I always imagined I was Stevie ❣️

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Savedbythebell98@reddit

We’re out here— r/babysittersclub

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nefarious_angel_666@reddit

I still have all of them

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wingthing666@reddit

Those books gave me such unrealistic expectations of the maturity of 13 year olds. 😆

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miss_scarlett1211@reddit

Was obsessed. Could read them so quickly and reread them over and over again. Begged my parents for my own phone line for years because of how Claudia had one. The Ghost at Dawn’s House was my favorite, along with the super special when the went on the cruise!

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jtteddy3@reddit

I'm so bummed I got rid of mine! I don't have the cash to burn replacing them 🥺

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MaddyKet@reddit

Most of them are online at various libraries if you want to reread.

And if you download Calibre, well then you can convert and keep the files.

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jtteddy3@reddit

Ooh! Thank you!

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browneyedgirl1683@reddit

Yes. Plus the Little Sister series. I still remember getting the books for Chanukah, I had my very own set! The Super Series were saved for vacations.

My daughter loves the graphic novels but it's nowhere near the excitement I had for it.

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MaddyKet@reddit

I loved the Super Series and I actually visited a lot of places in NYC and a few other places because of them. 😹

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Sad_Training_1595@reddit

Did "Boy Crazy Stacy" injure that little girls foot just to talk to that lifeguard?

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MaddyKet@reddit

No, she just lucked out. LOL They did take childcare very seriously.

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greendocklight@reddit

Yes! Reading these and talking about them at recess was my first and most successful book club.

There was a hilarious but also horrifying BSC snark community on Livejournal that made me rethink so many of the batcrap crazy things that happened in these books. I re-read a few but couldn't go on. It was the book equivalent of trying to watch She-Ra or the Thundercats as an adult. Some things are better left as memories...

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MaddyKet@reddit

Oh yeah you can’t think about why these 12 year olds had so little supervision, but then again, who did in the 80s?

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Aethyr42@reddit

4th grade geography, we had to pick a state as our 'favorite' and do a very in-depth report on it. I'm talking graphs, maps and a 1:1 hyperdetailed colored pencil drawing of the state seal. Nobody in my southern Californian elementary school class knew why I picked Connecticut but... you guys know why. Regular books, Super Specials, Super Mysteries, Little Sister series... My mom still has a mountain of them in a box somewhere.

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MaddyKet@reddit

I’m from Massachusetts and BSC is one reason I desperately wanted to visit California. I finally did at 21. 😺

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MaddyKet@reddit

There were over 216 books and I collected and read them all. 😺 I also have a freakishly good memory about which title is which number and what they are about.

Don’t remember much about 10th grade, but book #10 is Logan Likes Mary Anne where she meets Logan and is upset her friends throw her a surprise bday party and also when she gets Tigger.

I had a little BSC in high school that was fairly popular. I loved Dawn the most, but I’m a total Kristy.

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Melicious_1709@reddit

Scholastic book fairs were like Christmas!

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SparklyTree_1754@reddit

YESSS!!!

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SixAlarmFire@reddit

I loved the netflix show and am so sad it got canceled

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SparklyTree_1754@reddit

OMG, I was OBSESSED with The Baby-Sitters Club books! I think I actually borrowed the first one from my sister, and immediately got hooked, could not WAIT to go buy the next book as soon as it came out.

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spanishpeanut@reddit

I reread a good portion of the series a couple years ago. Most of the books I was able to borrow through Libby. My niece is 13 now and my nephew 11. Crazy to think of them babysitting like the characters of the BSC — my niece would be fine, but my nephew not so much. Then again, Mallory and Jessie were very mature for their age.

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bekindpleasealways@reddit

Over and over again!!

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_Internet_Hugs_@reddit

Oh yeah. Definitely.

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iamjustatourist@reddit

Thank you so much for the throwback! I remember staying up late and reading them with a flashlight under the covers. Once I started a book I couldn’t put it down until I finished it.

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sn9238@reddit

Just looking at the cover art here took me back! Wow… 🥹

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lola1stella2@reddit

It’s like 1980s Norman Rockwell.

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Biddy_Impeccadillo@reddit

The artist is on instagram. He was selling some of the originals a while back. I was sad to have missed out.

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LoudRevolution9163@reddit (OP)

I know! It hit me hard with memories. Such simpler times...

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welovesnacks366@reddit

As a sheltered Christian girl, these changed my life when my mom let me get them from the library

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PhloxOfSeagulls@reddit

My favorite books when I was 10 or 11. I even decided to play softball in middle school because Kristy played it. I wanted my own phone line, but that was never going to happen in a million years, lol.

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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

Not me, those are for girls!

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butterbean8686@reddit

During the 1996 Scholastic book fair, I stole my dad’s credit card info and signed myself up for a BSC subscription club thing. I got the new books mailed to me as they were released. It took a while for my parents to figure it out. I got in a lot of trouble for stealing. But I enjoyed those books!

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Appropriate-Diver301@reddit

All the way to #s 48 or 49.

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Ryanookami@reddit

I actually started out reading Babysitter’s Little Sister, the series that focused on Kristy’s younger step sister Karen before I got into BSC proper.

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Nilbog_Frog@reddit

My mom got me a subscription to Little Sister series from scholastic in, I think, 3rd grade. Once a month there’d be a small package with a couple book’s and some relevant shwag. I loved those books. I still think about them often.

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suspiciousscents@reddit

Nostalgia!! Mary Ann Misses Logan …

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idobleave84@reddit

Loveeeed them!!!!!

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Isanyonelistening45@reddit

I did, I think I have a couple somewhere.

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HealthAccording9957@reddit

I did, and now my six year old is reading BSC Little Sister graphic novels 🥰

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siobhanenator@reddit

I remember trying to put eggs and lemon juice in my hair because Claudia and Stacey did.

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BogeyLowenstein@reddit

Ok so did I!

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USAF_Retired2017@reddit

Me!!!!!

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_somelikeithot@reddit

I did! I wanted to be Stacy, she seemed the coolest being from New York, but I did think hiding candy around your room was cool à la Claudia and started doing that.

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sundayfunday78@reddit

I read so many of these books! I had a few but mostly borrowed from the library.

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Vorpal_Bunny19@reddit

My addiction to these books is why I’ll buy my little boy any DogMan book he asks for.

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jackfaire@reddit

I stole them from my sister to read. I also took her Girl Talk books.

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kristosnikos@reddit

LOVED Girl Talk.

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jackfaire@reddit

As a teen boy they were the only books that actually seemed to deal with being a teen rather than just "Look this kid is your age but a hero and has none of your anxiety or insecurities"

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AshDogBucket@reddit

The movie soundtrack was amazing. I was more of a Sweet Valley girl myself but I did have a few BSC books!

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Massive_Lack_2626@reddit

Babysitters club and Boxcar Children!

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viridiansoul@reddit

I read as many of these as they had in the library. I grew up too poor to buy books, so the library was my heaven.

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Whiticisms@reddit

Same, I'd have rereads, especially on the special double books when they went for vacation and stuff 😂

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Dreamingofapastlife@reddit

My BFF (the Be Fri to my st end!) sent me the first six in a collectors tin a few years ago. We both had dozens of these and ordered the new ones at the book fair whenever we could.

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PurplePlaidPajamas7@reddit

Does anyone remember the "Kid Sister" series that featured Kristy's stepsister?

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Trick-Session2388@reddit

ME.

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DeadSharkEyes@reddit

My mom got rid of all my books, I have seriously considered buying the series on EBay so I can read them again.

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OmicronPerseiNate@reddit

I've been on a hunt at yard sales and thrift stores for these books, I loved them :) I didn't get into Little Sister though.

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dogtor_howl@reddit

I loved them all! The new series on Netflix was actually really good.

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The-Good-Bad-Place@reddit

I’m currently reading the graphic novel versions with my 7 year old! It’s been awesome to revisit some plots I’d totally forgotten about.

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MommaOfManyCats@reddit

Still do! I actually started a blog where I read and recap the books from when I was a kid. I just haven't updated it in a few years.

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Classic-Arugula2994@reddit

Aww, love these books.

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fyrefly_faerie@reddit

I remember reading the spin off series Babysitters Little Sister with Karen.

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ViciousSnatch@reddit

I legit read these to rags! I kept them all in order and seeing new ones at the bookstore was always exciting. I grew up poor, but I’d always get a new paperback when we’d go to the mall. I liked Stacy the best because she was fun, but I appreciated Kristy’s common sense. I even remember when they’d babysit Jamie Newton and he’d say, “Hi hi” and Claudia’s grandma would pronounce iron like eye-ron. Forty years later and I haven’t forgotten!

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EmmalouEsq@reddit

Um, yeah! I even read the BSC reddit group. I used to get them every week at Walmart

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atomicgirl78@reddit

Read them and LOVED THEM. Surprisingly, I pawned them for drugs in my 20’s cuz I was desperate.

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mkwb80@reddit

Of course! I still remember being not-quite-old-enough to read them and seeing them in Waldenbooks in the mall and thinking they were so cool!

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frenchbread_pizza@reddit

For some reason, I thought we had to choose and became a Sleepover Friends girlie instead.

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thepoppaparazzi@reddit

Those were some of my favorite stocking stuffers growing up! Christmas morning I could go downstairs before my parents woke up, pick a book out of the stocking, and finish it before they got up.

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No_Macaroon_207@reddit

I only read a couple. The ones I remember reading were with the twins, the diabetic girl (sorry I can't remember her name) going to the hospital and one of the girl's younger sister trying to start a pet sitting club.

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Ive_Got_No_Control@reddit

Absolutely! And I still have some of the originals lol

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TNCoke82@reddit

If I didn't read them all, then I came pretty close!! These, Nancy Drew, and Goosebumps was where it was at when I was a kid!!

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Sail0r_Jupit3r@reddit

I had every book growing up and lugged that collection around every place I lived, as an adult. A few years ago my husband and I were cleaning out our garage and came across the box containing said collection, that I’d somehow forgotten about. Every book was riddled with mold. I was devastated. I’m still salty about it to this day lol

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Mike_Danton@reddit

I never stopped reading them 😆

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hipstercheese1@reddit

I was obsessed

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JollyJeanGiant83@reddit

I loved them! And because Stacey had diabetes, I was way less scared when it turned out my best friend had diabetes.

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eternallysantanasass@reddit

I loved these books and eventually the movie they made

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rythmicjea@reddit

I had a subscription! Every month you got 4 (I think).

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elliemff@reddit

Me too! Even made my own Kid Kit to take on my babysitting jobs.

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sugarandspice27@reddit

I had them all! My grandma was the best and bought me all the books I wanted.

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Inner-One-5286@reddit

There's a new book coming out this year. Ann M. Martin is writing one sitters and chose other authors to write the others, including one of the ghost writers from the original series. It's for the, sigh, 40th anniversary of the first book

https://www.amazon.com/Baby-sitters-Club-Fan-Baby-sitter-Baby-Sitters/dp/1546171371/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2IGYP42H6ZCA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.hk-a0UloD7urTUf5rEF2M7T08U9Ulf7zRzuWnp4HIwwQ3GEhGZCs6wFR8664kNhisdvJtqBpuFlR4t7j34ELNy90sFSK2JT7m_x_7F0IOCNuVfbH1_wAV_tECuJvp_RmPD_1yNnp-2INfopAeTHMFudf5EC5gGmUFYs8hXSoBDNtNiAzYv5MelToRnatBEot1oQBRLQjUkji5ZuIb_p8oQ.CBgaqdJ81DINCGYiq6OekAf5VQSRtYx1qa36gb4KzqQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=babysitters+club+fan+edition&qid=1775419005&s=books&sprefix=babysitters+club+fan+ed%2Caps%2C114&sr=1-1

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Z0na@reddit

Comes out just in time for my daughter's birthday. Thanks!

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NicolesPurpleHair@reddit

I’m sure I still have my collection packed up somewhere. I loved the super specials, I had them all!

My favourite parts of the books was always reading what Claudia was wearing. I couldn’t wait for the outfit descriptions!

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