Baby-Sitters Little Sister
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Baby-Sitters Little Sister is a series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club novel series. Written by Ann M. Martin, the series centered on seven-year-old Karen Brewer, the stepsister to Kristy Thomas, who is president of The Baby-sitters Club. In this series, Karen is a second grader at Stoneybrook Academy.
In the beginning of the series, Karen and her younger brother Andrew live primarily with their mother and stepfather. They visit their father and stepmother every other weekend and for a few weeks on vacations. Starting with Baby-Sitters Little Sister #48, Karen's Two Families, Karen and Andrew began switching houses every month. At this point, each novel covered the month at their respective house (unlike the earlier novels, such as Baby-Sitters Little Sister #3, Karen's Worst Day, which only covered a short amount of time).
Although the series covered holiday celebrations every year in real-time, Karen only celebrated her birthday once (she turned seven years old in Baby-Sitters Little Sister #7, Karen's Birthday). No other main character celebrated a birthday during the series.
Certain events in The Baby-sitters Club overlapped in the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series, although the timeline was shown to be off by about a year[citation needed]. However, in some Baby-Sitters Little Sister novels, Karen sometimes talks about the members of the Baby-sitters Club: Kristy Thomas, Claudia Kishi, Mary Anne Spier, Stacey McGill, Dawn Schafer, Mallory Pike, and Jessica "Jessi" Ramsey[citation needed].
The series began in 1988 with the publishing of Karen's Witch, and ended twelve years later in 2000 with the publishing of Karen's Cowboy.
