Kristy's Great Idea: Classic Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club #1)
THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB Kristy's Great Idea Ann M Martin SCHOLASTIC INC
This book is for Beth McKeever Perkins my old baby-sitting buddy With love and years of memories
CHAPTER 1 The Baby sitters Club I'm proud to say it was totally my idea even though the four of us worked it out together Us is Mary Anne Spier Claudia Kishi Stacey McGill and me Kristy Thomas I got the idea on the first Tuesday afternoon of seventh grade It was a very hot day It was so hot that in my un air conditioned school Stoneybrook Middle School the teachers had opened every single window and door and turned off all the lights My hair stuck damply to the back of my neck and I wished I had a rubber band so I could pull it into a long ponytail Bees flew into the classroom and droned around our heads and Mr. Redmont our teacher let us stop working to make fans out of construction paper The fans didn't do much except keep the bees away but it was nice to take up ten minutes of social studies making them Anyway that stifling afternoon dragged on forever and when the hands of the clock on the front wall of our classroom finally hit 2:42 and the bell rang I leaped out of my seat and shouted Hooray I was just so glad that it was time to get out of there I like school and everything but sometimes enough is enough Mr. Redmont looked shocked He was probably thinking he'd been so nice letting us make fans and there I was not appreciating it at all just glad the day was over I felt bad but I couldn't help what I'd done I'm like that I think of something to say and I say it I think of something to do and I do it
