Ann M Martin

A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor. Annabelle Doll is eight years old- she has been for more than a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll people, day after day, year after year...until one day the Funcrafts move inches Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin,...

"Claudia's not worried when she hears her newest baby-sitting charge, Betsy Sobak, is a great practical joker. After all, how much harm can one little girl do? Plenty. Claudia breaks her leg as a result of one of Betsy's mean jokes... and now she's talking about quitting the club. Baby-sitting, she says, is just too dangerous. Kristy thinks Betsy needs to be taught a lesson. She also thinks the Baby-sitters are just the ones to do it. Watch out, Betsy...

We [heart] cats! Karen's best friend Hannie just got a new kitten. Now all her friends have cats. And Karen has a great idea. She can start a club like her big sister Kristy. It will be a Kittycat Club! Will will the club do? Karen can't baby-sit like Kristy . . . but she can cat-sit! Will anyone want Karen as a cat-sitter? They'd better - running a club is hard work!

Karen is having a bad-luck day. Her favorite jeans are missing, there's no prize in the cereal box, and Boo-Boo the cat runs away. Will this be her worst day ever?

Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.

"Annabelle Doll, Tiffany Funcraft, and their families journey far from home"--

When Karen falls down on her new roller skates, she breaks her wrist. Will she be able to find someone famous to sign her cast?

Annabelle and Tiffany, dolls who are best friends living in the Palmer house, have an adventure when they hide in Kate Palmer's backpack, and carried to school mistakenly go to another house, and try to stop Princess Mimi, a doll who threatens to kill all dollkind.

Rose Howard has OCD, Asperger's, and is obsessed with homonyms. She even purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose?s rules of homonyms, is very special. When a storm hits Rain goes missing. Rose?s father accidentally let Rain out. Now Rose has to find her dog, even if it means leaving the safety of her routines and safe places to search for her missing dog. Rose finds the dog as well as Rain?s original...

Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of dollkind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.