Baby-sitters Club eBooks

The Classic Baby-sitters Club Returns on eBook!

Millions of girls have read The Baby-sitters Club—and now it’s your turn!

When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club—a chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they love to do—she has no idea how much the club will change everything. Crank calls, uncontrollable toddlers, wild pets, untruthful clients. . . running a business is hard work! Kristy and her co-founders, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey, are sure they can handle anything. but only if they stick together!

The bestselling series began in 1986, and ever since then, girls all over the world have become best friends with the BSC. Now, the baby-sitters are back!

The first twenty books in The Baby-sitters Club series are now available with their classic cover look—exclusively as eBooks! And as if that weren’t enough to make you hyperventilate, each also includes a special letter from author Ann M. Martin. Join the girls in Stoneybrook and see what all the fuss is about. This is one club that everyone’s invited to join, so don’t miss out!

 

Debby Ryan Interview

Debby Ryan Jessie Interview

In the TV show Jessie, Debby Ryan stars as Jessie, a starry-eyed teenager born and raised in a military family, who ventures to New York City and becomes a nanny to 4 kids. Born May 13, 1993, Ryan was actually raised in a military family and spent her early years in Alabama, Texas, and Germany.  Read our interview to find out more about her early life, and her life as an actress now.

Scholastic Helps Victims of Hurricane Sandy

Scholastic Helps Schools and Libraries Devastated by Hurricane Sandy

When Hurricane Sandy hit, lots of classrooms and libraries were flooded. If you have ever dropped a book in the bathtub, you know that water destroys books, so many places had to throw away all their ruined books! Scholastic announced that it will donate one million books to schools and libraries and is working with the nonprofit Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc. to help distribute books to the schools and libraries in the hardest-hit areas of the tri-state region that need them the most. 

Maybe you can't donate a million books, but you can help too by making a donation of your own to the libraries of New York City whose children's books have been destroyed. If you have any new or good quality used children's books to donate, you can send them to:

Urban Librarians Unite
45-06 Queens Blvd. Suite 120
Sunnyside, NY 11104

You can even host a book drive and collect books to send. Let's all try to help the kids whose libraries lost all their books!

— Sonja, STACKS Staffer

Your Book Recommendations

I don't know if you've noticed, but I recently discovered how to make Wordles and now I want to Wordle everything! I was looking at your book recommendations on the Reading Buzz Board and I knew they would make an awesome word cloud.

Check this out! YOUR book recommendations in glorious word-cloudy color!

Cool, right? Have you read all of these? Are your favorites on this list?

I need your help for next month's Book Wordle. Leave a Comment with the title of the book you are reading right now. In December, I will make a Wordle of all our reads for the whole month. If everybody on the STACKS leaves a Comment, it's going to be an epic Wordle!

— Sonja, STACKS Staffer

LEGO: The Movie Contest

LEGO: The Movie Vehicle Design Contest

Imagine you're playing with your LEGOs, and you build this crazy awesome thing, and you're like, "Whoa, this thing is so crazy awesome it should be in a movie!" And then the directors of LEGO: The Movie come and take your crazy awesome LEGO thing and actually put it in their movie! Like, actually in the movie in the movie theater on the giant screen for the whole world to see! Just imagine that for a second. Pretty sweet.

Now, go build your crazy awesome LEGO thing because that dream could be possible if you enter the LEGO Vehicle Design Contest. There are some rules of course. Be sure to watch the video with the directors telling you what kind of crazy awesome LEGO thing they want. "The crazier the better!"

The deadline is December 1, so get started now! What are YOU going to build? Leave a Comment with your crazy awesome LEGO ideas.

Who Said It? Author Trivia Quiz

Who Said It? Author Trivia Quiz

I know you guys love your authors, and many of you will probably grow up to be authors. But when they are not writing books, what do authors say in real life? You know your favorite books inside out and backwards, but can you guess which authors said these quotes?

Answer choices are E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web, J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps series, and Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Match each author with the correct quote below.

Writing Prompt: Mythical Creature

Writing Prompt: Mythical Creature

Would you like to be an angel . . . or an alien . . . or a vampire? How about a unicorn . . . or a mermaid . . . or a basilisk (like the deadly snake in Harry Potter)?

Welcome to the world of mythical creatures! Webster’s Dictionary defines a mythical creature as “a monster renowned in folklore and myth.” Many mythical creatures have supernatural powers, some good and some evil. In literature, they range from the Greek and Roman gods, to creatures in fairy tales, to Edward from Twilight (for ages 12 and up)!

Well, today’s Write On Writing Prompt comes to us from Shadow Princess who has been thinking about mythical creatures herself.

What kind of mythical creature would you be?

I would be a fairy! What about you guys? What mythical creature would YOU be? Let us know in the Comments below. Let’s see how many crazy answers we can get!

— Ratha, Stacks Writer