Follows the adventures of Kristy and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club as they deal with crank calls, uncontrollable two-year-olds, wild pets, and parents who do not always tell the truth.
Karen's class gets a neat surprise -- they are going to be on a television quiz show. Karen and her friends are really excited, they practice a lot, but they wonder if they are good enough to win the big prize.
Kristy and her all-star softball team are coming home from a game when a terrible storm washes out the bridges, leaving the kids stranded. There is nowhere to go and the only shelter looks haunted. Will the girls survive a night in a spook house?.
Karen is disappointed when her family cancels plans to travel to New York for Thanksgiving, but she learns being home with friends and loved ones is just as wonderful.
Claudia gets stuck baby-sitting for Rosie, an obnoxious child with an I.Q. so high it is off the scale, and must figure out how to deal with the child.
Claudia's participation in the Baby-sitters Club is curtailed when Grandmother Mimi suffers a stroke and Claudia finds herself "Mimi-sitting" and fighting more frequently with her sister.
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.
Eight-year-old Tess is convinced that if she believes and stays aware of the magic around her, she will meet Santa Claus on Christmas Eve of 1958, when she will thank him for his gifts and ask him to use his magic to cure her best friend's father of cancer.
