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The Papadakis family takes in a foster child, a troubled young girl named Lou, and Kristy soon discovers that Lou's difficult behavior makes her a real challenge to baby-sit. Ann M. Martin is the creator of The Baby-sitters Club, which has more than 190 million books in print, making it one of the most popular series in the history of publishing. Her novels include A Corner of the Universe (a Newbery Honor Book), Belle Teal, Here Today, A Dog's Life, On Christmas Eve, and the Main Street and show more Family Tree series, as well as the much-loved collaborations P.S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More, with Paula Danziger. Ann lives in upstate New York. show lessTags
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Not one of the better BSC club books, that's for sure. Yeah, a kid who's been through what Lou did is bound to have some issues but this book just went way over the top in that, and then the ending is as cliched as you'd expect. I mean yeah it's a BSC book but this one was really trite compared to other books in this series despite the subject matter.
This is a great BSC book. One of the BSC's clients takes in a foster child, Lou McNally, and she's a terror! She is rude and mean and terrorizes the animals. They even label her the "worst kid ever", until they realize that she's just sad and feels abandoned. She doesn't want to let anyone get close because she doesn't want to get hurt. I really felt bad for Lou, but the ending was very positive.
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- Canonical title
- Kristy and the Worst Kid Ever
- Original title
- Kristy and the Worst Kid Ever
- Original publication date
- 1993-03
- People/Characters
- Kristy Thomas; Mary Anne Spier; Claudia Kishi; Stacey McGill; Mallory Pike; Jessi Ramsey (show all 7); Dawn Schafer
- Important places
- Stoneybrook, Connecticut, USA
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .M35675 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 284
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- 113,390
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.40)
- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 2
