Pearl Littlefield's first assignment in fifth grade is complicated: She has to write an essay about her summer. Where does she begin? Her dad lost his job, she had to go to a different camp—one where her older sister Lexie was a counselor-in-training (ugh!)—and she and her good friend James Brubaker III had a huge fight, which made them both wonder if the other kids were right that girls and boys can't be good friends and which landed one of them in the hospital. And there's much, much more on the list of good and bad things, as Ann Martin takes this appealing character into new adventures through which young readers will see that good or bad, life is what happens when you're making other plans.

When Claudia is told that her friend Rebecca's grandmother burned all of her own famous artworks before she died, Claudia is suspicious and sets out to find the real truth.

Landing new clients—an eccentric and feuding family—Dawn learns that they are searching for a treasure that will settle a tricky will left by the late patriarch, and hopes to solve the mystery before the end of summer.

In this five-book collection by the author of the Baby-Sitters Club, a group of teenage friends deals with the ups and down of growing upDawn just moved back to California from Connecticut. Sunny's mom has lung cancer. Maggie will do anything to be perfect. Amalia's boyfriend has got a scary idea of love. And Ducky is the loneliest boy on the West Coast.A spin-off of the bestselling Baby-Sitters Club series, the California Diaries are first-person accounts of five teenagers managing new friendships, new relationships, and a host of new problems. Diary One contains the first journal of each of the main characters, books one through five in the series.This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author's collection.

The Christmas season takes on a spooky feeling when the members of the Baby-sitters Club become tangled up in a string of mysterious events.

When Kristy and her friends head to the nation's capitol for a debate trip, they expect to see some great sites. What they don't expect is to be part of a big mystery involving a kidnapping. . .

During a Christmas shopping spree, Mary Anne racks up a large debt on her father's credit card. Baby-sitting won't cover the charges so she takes a secret job as a department store elf to pay her father back.

When Karen's family adopts a baby girl, Karen is dismayed that she's no longer the baby of the family. Then she finds that it's not so bad being the middle sister.