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a few days later CHAPTER 16

there . . . I
think everything

is ready!

dad was letting me throw a special It was special, because I had
baby-sitters club party. I could invited a special guest: Dawn. the
hardly believe he’d said yes! rest of the bsc wanted to meet her.

the pizza’s in the oven, they’re here! oh my
we made a separate gosh!! It’s not even
meal especially 5:00 yet! I’ll have
for StacEy . . .
to --

oh, no! relax, Mary what a way
Anne. I’ll get to start a
the door . you
party!
clean up.

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wait a second, how come
no one’s talking out
in the hall?

dad? this is mrs. schafer,
Dawn’s mother. mrs. schafer,

this is my dad, mr . Spier . . .
I think you two know
each other.

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yes. yes, of course we do. oh, I’d love to, but I have I’d love to. when?
sharon, it’s wonderful to pick up Dawn’s brother
to see you again. how about
at hockey practice. tomorrow

you, too, night?
richie.

won’t you well . . . would
come in? you like to have
dinner sometime?

a date! I can
hardly believe

it!!

that’s the rest
of the club!
ready? . . .

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a few minutes later

sooo . . . Mary Anne have you ever had she was terrific
says you’ve done a an emergency? when Jenny Prezzioso

lot of baby- was sick .
sitting.

oh, yes. an
I started emergency?
sitting when
I was nine. well . . .

and once, there was a fire in a “the firemen came really fast and put the
house when I was sitting. It was fire out. the kitchen was all wet and smoky,
a problem with the wiring. I got
the kids outside and called the but none of the other rooms were hurt.”

fire department.

wow! then what
happened?

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how late can I’d have to check with my mother. maybe 10:00?
you stay out? It’s been awhile since I sat for anyone besides my

brother, since I don’t know many people here.

okay.

gosh, I’m how come
not sure. you moved,

divorce. Dawn?

really? boy, I know all
about that.
you
do?

my parents are and I know all I moved here from new york last
divorced, too. It about moving. summer. It wasn’t so great at first,

stinks. but it’s a lot better now.

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that’s because she so, Dawn. we sure have a lot of clients now,
met all of us!! more than we know what to do with. we could

right! use some help.

Mary Anne? . . . do you want Dawn . . . would you like to join
to say it? The Baby-Sitters Club?

really? I mean, yes! yes,
I want to join. more

than anything. . . .
thanks, you guys!

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c’mon, everyone --
let’s go eat!

yeah!

last one
downstairs
is a rotten

egg!

pizza
toast!!

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to our new to Dawn! to the club!
member!

to the whole to us!!
club!

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ANN M. MARTIN’S The Baby-sitters Club is

one of the most popular series in the history of publishing —
with more than 176 million books in print worldwide — and
inspired a generation of young readers. Her novels include
Belle Teal, A Corner of the Universe (a Newbery Honor
book), Here Today, A Dog’s Life, and On Christmas Eve,
as well as the much-loved collaborations, P.S. Longer Letter
Later and Snail Mail No More, with Paula Danziger, and
The Doll People and The Meanest Doll in the World, written
with Laura Godwin and illustrated by Brian Selznick. She
lives in upstate New York.

RAINA TELGEMEIER grew up in San Francisco,

then moved to New York City, where she earned an
illustration degree at the School of Visual Arts. She is the
creator of Smile, a #1 New York Times bestselling graphic
memoir based on her childhood. It won a Will Eisner
Award for Best Publication for Teens, received a Boston
Globe–Horn Book Honor, and has appeared on many
state reading lists. Sisters, a companion to Smile, was a #1
New York Times bestseller and USA Today bestseller.
Raina is also the creator of Drama, a #1 New York Times
bestseller, recipient of a Stonewall Book Award Honor, and
one of YALSA’s Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens.

Raina lives in Astoria, New York, with her husband and
fellow cartoonist, Dave Roman. To learn more about Raina,
visit her online at www.goRaina.com.