Flora and Ruby near the first anniversary of their arrival in Camden Falls. Flora prepares for a visit from her old best friend, Annika. Flora's new best friend Olivia is afraid she won't measure up to Annika and that Flora will regret ever coming to Camden Falls. The day of the reunion is also the day the town celebrates its 350th anniversary. On that reunion day, Annika and Olvia immediately begin fighting. Does one best friend truly have to be...

"Claudia's sister, Janine, is too busy being smart to be nice to anyone-- even their grandmother, Mimi. But Claudia doesn't have to see Janine too much this summer since the Baby-sitters Club is starting a new play group. It's going to be so much fun! But then Mimi has a stroke, and the whole summer changes. Now Claudia is "Mimi-sitting" and Janine is no help at all. How can the Kishi sisters get along when Janine is always so mean?"--P. [4] of cover....

Flora worries about her first Thanksgiving without her parents, while Ruby worries about getting a part in the school musical, and their new friends, Olivia and Nikki, are adjusting to big changes in their families.

Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, but when their grandfather moves in and the girls have to share a room, they must find common ground.

"It's fun to be a Baby-sitters Little Sister! We Heart Cats! Karen's best friend Hannie just got a new kitten. Now all her friends have cats. And Karen has a great idea. She can start a club like her big sister Kristy. It will be a Kittycat Club! What will the club do? Karen can't baby-sit like Kristy...but she can cat-sit! Will anyone want Karen as a cat-sitter? They'd better-running a club is hard work!" --

Thirteen-year-old Claudia concludes that she is adopted since she sees no resemblance between herself and her brainy older sister whom she rivals.

When Abby's twin sister Anna is diagnosed with scoliosis, Abby cannot understand why Anna is shutting her out of her life.

Now that baby Emily is in the family, Karen feels left out. Then Emily gets sick and everybody, even Karen, has to take care of her. That's when Karen finds out that being a big sister is the most fun of all!

Karen loves her stepsister Kristy. Then Daddy gives Kristy a special pin. Karen is jealous. She wants the pin. But Kristy will not let Karen even borrow it. Karen borrows the pin anyway. Then she loses it in the snow. Un-oh. Now what is Karen going to do?

Pearl writes an essay about her complicated summer during which her father lost his job, her sister was her junior camp counselor, and she had an explosive fight with James Brubaker the Third.