Story Monsters Ink August 2018

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Ann M. Martin Inspires a New Generation of Baby-Sitters by Melissa Fales photos courtesy of Scholastic

The Baby-Sitters Club series was a literary staple of an entire generation of young readers. Ann M. Martin’s books about adolescent friends Mary Anne, Kristy, Claudia, Stacey, and their charges dominated bookshelves from the late 1980s through the 1990s, becoming one of the most popular young adult series of all time. “I heard from a lot of kids that the club members were like friends to them,” says Martin.

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