Karen's New Year

Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels #13

by DK Yingst (Adapter), Ann M. Martin

Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, adapted and illustrated by New York Times bestselling cartoonist DK Yingst!For New Year's Eve, Karen thinks everyone should make a promise. Hannie is going to stop biting her nails. Kristy promises not to talk to her boyfriend about softball on the phone so much. And Karen makes the most promises of all -- nine!But pretty soon, everyone starts breaking their promises. And Karen's brothers and sisters are calling her a spy! Poor Karen. Why is everyone bad at making New Year's promises except her?

Genres: Graphic Novels, Middle Grade, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Chapter Books, Holiday, Comics

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 6, 2026

Reviews

[Goatllama · Rating 1.5 out of 5]

Started reading this with every character speaking in a robot voice and couldn't stop. The dialogue is truly atrociously stilted.

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was cute. Karen being Karen, with a nice little moral/message at the end.

[Brooke Mallay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another book I had to DNF.

So it's the new year's and they have resolutions.
And first Hannie said she will stop biting her nails, Kristy won't stop talking to Bart on the phone.

But guess what Karen starts breaking her resolutions and spying on her friends and family and they start calling her a spy.

I have no idea if I might read more of her though....

[Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Karen learns about New Year’s resolutions and she’s going to make sure you keep yours.

[Mrs.MakesReadingFun · Rating 4 out of 5]

So much fun! I love seeing the Baby-Sitters Club world continue to grow with these graphic novels. Bright, funny, and incredibly approachable for younger readers. This is exactly the kind of book that disappears from our library shelves almost immediately!
This one had all the elements we love- friendship, family, communication, diverse families, school, etc! The New Year’s resolution piece was interesting- and I liked seeing Karen struggle to understand why some people break resolutions. I didn’t like how the parents handled their lesson to her (“taste of your own medicine” type lesson)- but they did apologize to her for their methods.

[Andrew Dittmar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Karen's New Year (Babysitters Club Little Sister graphic novel, #13), created by Ann M. Martin, adapted by DK Yingst


Karen is such a turd and I want 99 more of these please.


Reading history:
Normally I keep this in my private notes section, but I'm moving it. Yay!

Reading history was not added on Goodreads, but was instead kept on a small piece of paper with the book.


Started October 18th, 2026.
Finished October 18th, 2026.


October 18th, 2026: read whole book in physical copy.

[Brian · Rating 3.75 out of 5]

Karen decides to celebrate New Year’s Eve with her family, and everyone makes resolutions, but she decides to be a true brat and spy on everyone to see if they are keeping their resolutions. Will they be unhappy when they find out? This book was very amusing, and it took me about 15 to 20 minutes to read it, but I enjoyed it. The artwork was very cute as well.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Karen spies on her family & friends and announces when they break their New Years Resolution, which is crappy, but she's 7 and she stops and then a few days later her mom does the same thing to her and then she's like "sorry but I had to." What?? But a star higher than the text version, I think the graphic novel format made it a little softer

[Beth Icard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Counting books in my reading challenge that I copyedited or proofread. It's only fair. It's a damn lot of reading I'm not including otherwise!

Such a fun project.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Karen is a piece of work. But…she does learn how to be nicer to those around her in this book and there are hilarious moments.

[Kiri · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is why we need to explain things to kids, otherwise there will be misunderstandings.

[Gabrielle S · Rating 4 out of 5]

Karen is an anxious type A little bean in this book. It’s one of the only times I identify with her.

[Shelina · Rating 2.75 out of 5]

It’s really hard to like Karen. She always seems to cause drama.

[Molly]

No one likes a snitch, Karen. But do you know what else no one likes? Using your 7-year-old's friends and siblings to "teach her a lesson," LISA.