Mary Anne Saves the Day by Ann M. Martin

I would say this book is for upper elementary, maybe even going into 6th grade. The girls become friends again, and save the club, sending an invite to their newest member Dawn.

Eventually at the next meeting the girls realize that they’ve worked too hard for the club to fall apart like this, and that they need to make up. Mary Anne gets through this tough night with her new friend Dawn, and she makes a visit to her mothers grave shorty after. Mary Anne has to result in calling 911 to help with Jenny’s 104 degree fever. When Mary Anne babysits for little girl, Jenny, and she becomes extremely sick, she doesn’t have her go-to best friends to call. While the club is falling apart and the fight progresses, Mary Anne finds her self in a ‘babysitting emergency’. Mary Anne makes her way over to Kristy’s house to talk, but Kristy pretends shes not there, and the girls continue to avoid each other. Mary Anne continues throughout the book to move on past this huge fight, battling going through her daily routines without her best friends by her side. Right away the girls face a huge fight because Kristy took a job without offering it to others, causing a lot of mean words to be said. Together take on babysitting jobs throughout the town with their smooth running club, that is most of the time. These friends are Mary Anne, Kristy, Claudia, who have been best friends forever, and Stacey who just moved here from NYC. The book starts up introducing the 4 members that make up ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.Īfter living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. They inspired her to become a writer herself. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.Īnn has always enjoyed writing. But many of her characters are based on real people. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up.

Many are written about contemporary problems or events. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. She's now a full-time writer.Īnn gets the ideas for her books from many different places. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955.

Mary Anne Saves the Day by Ann M. Martin