Karen's family is having a reunion in Maine. Karen meets her cousin Diana for the first time. Diana is a lot of fun. Together the cousins explore the old house. They even find a hidden garden. Karen and Diana fix up the garden. Soon it looks beautiful. Special things happen when they are there. Could the garden be magical too?

As part of her exciting film course, Stacey is making a documentary about teen life in Stoneybrook. The movie creates a conflict with friendships when Stacey pursues tell-all interviews with her friends and enemies.

Melanie’s first love is the boy of her dreams—can she make the relationship last after summer is gone? Fourteen-year-old Melanie is spending the summer on Fire Island with her family when she meets Justin Hart. Handsome and mysterious, he seems as interested in her as she is in him, but insists that their relationship can only be a summer romance. After summer ends, Melanie tries to let go and starts dating another guy back home. But Justin isn’t easy to forget—especially when Melanie sees him on the cover of a magazine! The star of a new show, he has clearly forgotten all about her. Or has he? Melanie is determined to get in touch with him and find out just what she meant to him last summer. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author’s collection.

Claudia is determined to find out who is sabotaging the entries in the baking contest.

Shy Mary Anne must decide whether she has to break up with her handsome boyfriend to regain her independence.

After a fun winter break, Mary Anne is glad to be back at SMS. She's excited about her English project, and optimistic about the weeks ahead. Nothing could have prepared Mary Anne for the awful news that Amelia Freeman, a friend and a partner on her English project has suddenly died. Everyone at school is shocked and saddened. Gradually the other kids recover. But Mary Anne only feels worse. If only she could do something for Amelia. . .

Naturally, Jessi is thrilled when she earns the lead in her dance school's latest ballet. But someone in Jessi's class wants her out of the show. First Jessi's toe shoes are stolen. Then she gets all kinds of threatening messages! What kind of ballerina would want to scare Jessi? The Baby-sitters don't know, but they're not going to let anyone get away with it for long!

Karen's excited to be spending spring break at a resort in the Caribbean. But when she tries to befriend Sandy, the only other seven-year-old there, she's discouraged. Sandy participates in only the quietest activities and seems to reject Karen's attempts at friendship. But when she learns why Sandy seems so standoffish, Karen works hard to prove that she can be understanding. And in the end, she learns a lot about what friendship really means.

Karen and her brother Andrew, whose parents are divorced, want to spend equal time with both Mommy and Daddy and they help their parents make a new custody arrangement to make everyone happier.

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.

School is always fun in Ms. Colman's class! Natalie Springer likes school a lot. But not when the kids call her a baby. Natalie has a chance to do something important in Ms. Colman's class. Her teddy bear is going on a trip around the world! Will Natalie be brave enough to send her teddy so far away?

Lately, the pressure's really been on Stacey. She hasn't been feeling well. Her schoolwork and baby-sitting jobs are almost out of control. And Stacey's tired of being in the middle of her parents' fights. Then it happens: Stacey ends up in the hospital because of her diabetes. The Baby-sitters are so worried. So is Stacey. Why does she always have it so hard?

They're lean, they're mean, they're the pride of Stoneybrook. Who are they? They're Kristy's Krushers! When Kristy sees how much her little brothers and sister want to play softball, she starts a rag-tag team of her own. Maybe Kristy's Krushers aren't world champions (how could they be, with Jackie Rodowsky, walking disaster, playing for them?), but nobody beats them when it comes to team spirit. Now Bart's Bashers have challenged the Krushers to a real live game. It's bad enough that the Bashers truly are lean and mean-but what's worse is that Kristy has a crush on the Bashers' coach. A crush with a capital C!

Karen and Andrew want to buy the toys from an action movie, 'Space Game, ' but their mom doesn't approve of guns.

Karen visits the Big Apple where she not only sightsees, but donates her gift money to a holiday collection for needy children.