Claudia and Mean Janine (The Baby-Sitters Club)

Martin, Ann M.

ISBN 10: 0606380566 ISBN 13: 9780606380560

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 2016

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Claudia and her sister, Janine, may as well be from two different planets. But when something terrible happens to their grandmother, the two sisters discover they're more alike than they originally had thought.

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About the Author

Ann M. Martin's The Baby-Sitters Club series has over 176 million copies in print worldwide and inspired a generation of young readers. Her novels include the Main Street series; "Belle Teal"; the Newbery Honor book "A Corner of the Universe"; "Here Today"; "A Dog's Life"; and "On Christmas Eve"; as well as the much-loved collaborations "P.S. Longer Letter Later" and "Snail Mail, No More" with Paula Danziger. She lives in upstate New York.
Raina Telgemeier is the #1 "New York Times" bestselling, multiple Eisner Award winning creator of "Smile" and "Sisters," which are both graphic memoirs based on her childhood. She is also the creator of "Drama," which was named a Stonewall Honor Book and was selected for YALSA s Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens. Raina lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. To learn more, visit her online at www.goRaina.com."

From School Library Journal

Grade 4–8—Seventh-grader Claudia Kishi is a talented artist and a dependable baby-sitter, but those things don't seem to matter to her parents, who keep comparing her to her brainiac older sister. When school ends for the summer, Claudia is looking forward to art classes and running a morning day camp for the neighborhood kids with her friends. Everything changes when her beloved grandmother has a stroke. Suddenly, Claudia finds herself taking on more and more responsibilities at home, while Janine gets to focus on her summer classes. Readers will relate to Claudia's struggle to understand her sister and cope with the changes in her family. This installment in the series adapts the seventh title in Martin's original sequence, and the story and characters still feel fresh nearly two decades later. Telgemeier's black-and-white illustrations are crisp and clear, while concise narrative passages keep the focus on the dialogue and action. Here and there, a wordless panel conveys much more than a simple description; if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the portrait of Louie the collie after the day-camp kids "make him look beautiful" must be worth a chapter or two alone. A concluding "Making of" chapter provides a peek into Telgemeier's process when adapting the original novels, which will be especially interesting to readers thinking of developing their own comics. The well-developed characters and familiar struggles with friends, family, and school will keep kids coming back to these books.—Beth Gallego, Los Angeles Public Library, Panorama City
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About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0606380566
• ISBN 13: 9780606380560
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 176
• Illustrator: Lamb Braden