A guide to baby-sitting that explains everything a baby-sitter needs to know about caring for a child, with pages for parents to fill in with emergency numbers and necessary information, fun activity suggestions, and tips for handling a variety of problems and situations.
Young Abby, miserable while her best friend, Jessica, is away, cannot seem to do anything right, messing up her pal's baby-sitting job and falling into other disasters.
Ashley thinks Claudia has artistic talent and should spend more time on her "calling" and forget about the Babysitters club. Claudia has to decide between the Baby-sitters Club and Ashley.
Since her parents' divorce, Dawn lives in Connecticut with her mother while her brother and father are in California, but after a week's vacation in sunny, healthy southern California, Dawn isn't sure she wants to return to the East Coast.
When Mrs. Towne has an accident, Mary Anne is happy to do a few errands in exchange for sewing lessons. However, Mary Anne ends up doing everything for Mrs. Towne.