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Baby-Sitters Little Sister #6
Karen's Little Sister
When Karen's family adopts a baby girl, Karen is dismayed that she's no longer the baby of the family. Then she finds that it's not so bad being the middle sister.
101 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1989
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March 20, 2022
Karen is her usual bratty self in this one. I'm not sure why she's so upset given that Andrew is the youngest not her but oh well. Anyway Karen is upset that Emily gets all the attention cause God forbid she isn't the center of attention and spoiled by all around her. Emily has to have tubes put in her ears which I had at around her age it's not fun. Karen so realizes she can be a big sister and is happy. In the really infuriating plot her mom and stepdad get her a pet which is a terrible idea to get a young child a small pet. Small pets are not easy and they are not for kids either.
October 26, 2023
Karen is extremely annoying in this book. She's being a whiny little brat because her family is too busy paying attention to her two-year-old baby sister who is having reoccurring ear infections. Lisa & Watson really need to take their hell spawn to the child psychologist because something ain't right with this kid.
Karen even boasts, "I just love being the center of attention. Someday I will be gigundo famous."
Yeah, she's def going to grow up to be Brittany Mahomes.
Karen even boasts, "I just love being the center of attention. Someday I will be gigundo famous."
Yeah, she's def going to grow up to be Brittany Mahomes.
October 7, 2022
I am really enjoying reading through this series with my daughter! They are really relatable for young kids. In this one, Karen's dad has adopted a young girl from Vietnam with Kristy's mom named Emily. She's 2 and now she's the youngest girl and gets all of the attention, causing a lot of jealousy in Karen. We see Karen work through that and also get her first pet. Cute story!
January 27, 2023
I listened to this one, and now that I know how cute these are via audio, I'll be listening to more!
Karen can be a lot to take, but I totally got her side here. It would help if her "Big House" family paid any attention to her besides the two weekends a month, but except for Kristy they don't. I started noticing in BSC books that every time Karen and Andrew show up for their weekend, Watson and Elizabeth take off. It's even worse in this one, because not only have K&A just shown up, but Emily is sick with chronic ear infections - and they STILL leave.
This book establishes that Kristy calls her once a week to check in, which is really sweet. But you know who DOESN'T call her EVER? Her father. Seriously, I felt terrible for both Karen and Emily Michelle here.
Karen can be a lot to take, but I totally got her side here. It would help if her "Big House" family paid any attention to her besides the two weekends a month, but except for Kristy they don't. I started noticing in BSC books that every time Karen and Andrew show up for their weekend, Watson and Elizabeth take off. It's even worse in this one, because not only have K&A just shown up, but Emily is sick with chronic ear infections - and they STILL leave.
This book establishes that Kristy calls her once a week to check in, which is really sweet. But you know who DOESN'T call her EVER? Her father. Seriously, I felt terrible for both Karen and Emily Michelle here.
December 20, 2011
I really liked that the story about a girl who had an adopted sister, named Emily. Karen didn't like her at first, but in the end was really happy to have a little sister. I also really liked the lesson I learned about baby birds. Karen was very cautious about not touching a little bird, but was afraid her cat would get it, so she took care of the little bird until it was big enough to take care of itself.
July 17, 2024
Karen is struggling with all of the attention that Emily Michelle is receiving; but through caring for a baby bird, she realizes how much love she has for Emily.
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July 29, 2020As a child reading these books it just seemed normal.
But as an adult looking back on these books, they were kind of ahead of their time. I remember being one of the only mixed race family in my neighborhood. As a kid I knew where all the other mixed families were.
Now looking back at the BSC and BSLS books there is so much diversity and in the 80's!
When you were too old for childrens books, but too young for The Baby Sitters Club.
Ann M. Martin really is a genius to piggy back on the success of The Baby Sitters Club.
After reading the little sisters series I remember feeling like a real adult opening up that first BSC book.
But as an adult looking back on these books, they were kind of ahead of their time. I remember being one of the only mixed race family in my neighborhood. As a kid I knew where all the other mixed families were.
Now looking back at the BSC and BSLS books there is so much diversity and in the 80's!
When you were too old for childrens books, but too young for The Baby Sitters Club.
Ann M. Martin really is a genius to piggy back on the success of The Baby Sitters Club.
After reading the little sisters series I remember feeling like a real adult opening up that first BSC book.
January 23, 2021
Karen was not very nice to her little sister because she had a earache and Karen wanted the attention and she did not be very nice to her little sister and then for little sister went to the hospital because she had an earache. And then she was nice so and at the end she got a shirt from her big step sister. And then she was nicer to Emily Michelle her little sister and she gave her little sister a notebook and a pencil and the notebook had a picture of a bird in it.
December 9, 2021
Emily Michelle sort of reminded me of my little sister. My sister is four years younger than me (like Emily Michelle was four years younger than Karen) and both girls had chronic ear infections as toddlers. Karen already had a little brother, so I did not understand why she was so jealous of the attention Emily Michelle received. Apparently, Karen was upset that she was no longer the youngest girl in the family. 🤷🏻♀️
January 22, 2024
Great story, retro art
I loved Babysitters Little Sister as a child and now my own daughters (6&8) love the books too! We have enjoyed them on audible and in paperback but this was my first time on kindle. Although the cover of the kindle book is the new cover art the pictures inside the text are from the 1989 version, which was a fun blast from the past.
I loved Babysitters Little Sister as a child and now my own daughters (6&8) love the books too! We have enjoyed them on audible and in paperback but this was my first time on kindle. Although the cover of the kindle book is the new cover art the pictures inside the text are from the 1989 version, which was a fun blast from the past.
March 1, 2022
It's one of my favorite books that I read as a child and I enjoyed just as much as an adult. I really connected to Karen as a little girl and going back, I still do. I will be rereading this book again and again.
November 14, 2017
It was the first BSC Little Sister book I read and I loved it :)
April 20, 2019
I love this book about Karen’s little sister!
May 22, 2023
I love the Baby-sitters club series! This was a really good book!
December 16, 2023
Karen was a brat per usual but this was one of the better books
May 18, 2024
LOL I always thought that Magic Tastee was THE WORST name for a bird. Even when I was a kid I knew it was awful.
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October 18, 2025
Second read aloud chapter book for my little kinder. These books are so nostalgic for me. I love that they hold multiple plot lines, even in an earlier chapter book.
July 7, 2026
good
It was good and nice to see how Karen changes throughout the book. I have read the book multipul times. The art is also great.
It was good and nice to see how Karen changes throughout the book. I have read the book multipul times. The art is also great.
March 27, 2010
This book was kind of boring like most books in this series.
I didn't really like this book either. Big surprise right? Anyway like I say in all my review for the Baby Sitters Little Sister books I think younger girls would like them (6 and up) Anyway I give this book 2 out of 5 stars.
I didn't really like this book either. Big surprise right? Anyway like I say in all my review for the Baby Sitters Little Sister books I think younger girls would like them (6 and up) Anyway I give this book 2 out of 5 stars.
April 15, 2013
When, exactly, was Emily Michelle adopted? Nobody knows. I also don't know why she has this visceral reaction to EM, when she already had a younger brother.
She gets a rat though. Rats are awesome.
She gets a rat though. Rats are awesome.
February 1, 2015
Emily Michelle, Karen's adopted little sister from Vietnam, is having an identity crisis. She wants to be a bird. She goes to hospital to have a procedure, and becomes a sparrow that now lives in Karen's mother's yard. The end.
May 15, 2009
I can't get past Kristy's super-high-waisted jeans (complete with tucked in t-shirt) on the front cover. Was that really ever fashionable? Really??
November 22, 2009
that its not such a good idea to have a wedding next to a witchs [morbid dentisty} house!
August 13, 2010
I read this right when I was discovering people adopted kids from other countries. My mind exploded.
February 6, 2011
In which Karen's millionaire father adopts a baby girl from Vietnam named Emily - not many more in this series that mirror events that occur during Kristy's books from the BSC series.
October 9, 2024
This was the first Little Sister book I ever owned.
July 24, 2011
What young girl did not love the Baby-Sitters Club and Karen, the Baby-Sitters Little Sister?
May 6, 2021
Loved these books as a child
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