Karen's Pizza Party

Baby-Sitters Little Sister #42

by Ann M. Martin

When Karen is selected as queen of Pizza Express, she begins to get too big for her britches, but her classmates forgive her when she throws them a huge pizza party

Genres: Childrens, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Fiction

99 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1993

About the author

Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She's now a full-time writer.

Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.

Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.

Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.

After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/annmma...

Reviews

[Pastel Paperback · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love love love this cover. And it’s about 2 pages at the end of the book, but it’s perfect.

Karen has to ask if she’s being obnoxious in this one and I for one was stunned. Karen? Obnoxious?

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I didn't have the last two books as a young'un obsessed with the Karen books, this one I did have. And I loved it! (Who doesn't love a pizza party?) And it was still a fun read as an adult (overlooking the strangeness of what a big deal this monthly contest is. What is Pizza Express' contest budget?!) I know haters are going to complain that this book proves what a ~brat Karen is in this book, but that's the point! If someone made me a Queen for a month and gave me a crown, you'd better believe I'd be rocking that shit daily. #hatersgonnahate

[V. Arrow · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love that it took 42 books for Karen to learn the word "obnoxious." No -- I genuinely love that. Because I think it would have been really easy for the series to paint her that way with how precocious she is and how she's always scheming, but it really doesn't, and neither does the BSC main series.

[Em's Adventures · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jeez Karen never seems to learn her lesson in these books and to stop showing off. In this book she is worse then ever, extremely bratty, selfish and annoying. My least favourite book in the series hands down. Plus, how does she keep winning things? And how does a multiple champion spelling bee finalist spell privit wrong 😂

[Jaclyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lollll Stoneybrook. I love stories like this that show us how small town Stoneybrook is. Where else would a local pizza place do a monthly Pizza King/Queen contest and have it be such a humongous deal? (OK the $1000 prize money is awesome, but they also expect a lot of work from the winner!)

[Stasia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lucy has discovered the Babysitter's Club books, and it's fun reading them again myself and feeling all the nostalgia. ❤️

[Looney · Rating 1 out of 5]

0/5

[Braydee Raden · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

Karen is very, very unlikeable in this book.

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was really GREAT! I really liked that she won the contest and was able to be the Pizza Queen. She got to be on the commercials and that's what I want to do some day. They treated her like a "Pop Star", she wore the crown everywhere she went. She even got to have a free pizza party for her class. I really enjoyed this book.

[Elise · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think it was exciting when Karen became pizza queen of the month at the Pizza Express contest, and got to do a photoshoot for ads, a commercial, and making public appearances. This book looks at how she let the fame get to her head and how her friends couldn't stand how she was behaving. She treats them all to a pizza party in the end and all is well again, for now

[Sayo -bibliotequeish- · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[Mellanie C]

I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/14535038