Ann M Martin

Far and near. Lost and found. Four girls. Four generations. Georgia cannot figure out what's going on in her family. Her mother, Francie, is extremely overprotective. Her grandmother, Dana, and her great-grandmother, Abby, don't speak to each other. And Georgia's great-great-grandmother also had some secrets that nobody else knows about. Georgia knows this because she's found her great-great grandmother's diary hidden in a wall in the family's house...

Claudia begins to feel like a loser when she is dropped back to seventh grade and she does not get to see her friends anymore.

Kristy and the Baby-sitters Club plan a huge outing as a Mother's Day surprise for their clients, while Kristy's mother and stepfather have a surprise of their own in store for their family.

Karen's favorite teacher is getting married and Karen is going to be the flower girl! At least Ms. Colman said that Karen would be, but that was before Ms. Colman's niece showed up. Will Karen still get to walk down the aisle?

Karen did not mean to cheat off of Ricky, but she was just not ready for Ms. Colman's surprise math quizzes. When her teacher and her friend Hannie ask Karen if she has been cheating, she says no. A big lie! what will she do if everyone finds out the truth?

Karen learns the importance of keeping a secret so that rumors don't get started. She has to regain her classmates confidence after they stop talking to her because she spilled Natalie's secret.

When a fight breaks out among the members of the Baby-sitters Club, timid Mary Anne finds herself becoming more assertive as a baby sitter and in her relationships with her father and friends.