Dawn on the Coast (The Baby-Sitters Club #23)

i liked this book i really did but it gets slow there is alot of talking about dawn staying in California. i excepted more experiences from dawns trip. sure the stonybrook baby sitters had experience to but that wasint the same at all. still if you like the baby sitters club series you should biy this book four shur.

fantastic and filled with suspense but is a lot like Jersey shore for kids sorry but not one of ann m Martin’s best

One thing I like about all the babysitters club books are the real life situations the members face. And this book definitely continues in that pattern. Great book!

As a homeschool parent, I was always on the lookout for the next book or book series that would really get one of my kids reading. Of course, interests vary, so book choices need to be tailored to each individual child.

When my older daughter discovered The Baby-Sitters Club books, I knew I was onto something. I must have bought 100 of these books, all of which she devoured. She also reread many of them. At that age, anything that gets them reading and keeps them reading is a win. From that perspective, I can highly recommend these books.

My daughter loved them so much that she was never willing to part with them. She now teaches fourth grade and took the books to her classroom!

One of the characters has Type I Diabetes. While I applaud inclusion of any character with a disability in childrens books, mistakes were made. We know this because my younger daughter has Type I Diabetes. But even that proved educational because we discussed the diabetes situations as they arose.

So Dawn gets to go to California to visit her dad during spring break or something, and she reconnects with her old friends, old neighborhood, and family members. It’s tough for her because she’s having a great time (in vacation mentality, of course), and on top of that, her friend has started a babysitting club (because that’s what everyone is doing everywhere!) and she gets to sit in on the meetings, so it’s hard to think she’s going to have to go back to Stoneybrook. Now, one thing I didn’t like about this book was that it had this weird stereotype of California people. They’re not all health-food-eating blonde beach bums, you know. I always wondered, even when I was a kid, how these books were received by California kids. I was a Florida kid. I wondered how Florida kids would be portrayed in this series.

I liked this book because the main conflict of the book–Dawn’s reluctance to return home–was realistically handled. I could definitely feel the struggle there–especially since we idealize places and experiences when they aren’t our everyday lives.

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