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The Baby-Sitters Club Mysteries #15
Kristy and the Vampires
When a television movie begins filming in Stoneybrook, Kristy is hired to look after Derek Masters, child actor and friend of the Club, who begins receiving threatening letters demanding he quit the project. Original.
145 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
About the author
Ann M. Martin
1,132 books3,105 followersAnn 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.
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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.
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February 6, 2011
the summer doldrums have set in when kristy reads in the newspaper that a movie is going to be filmed in stoneybrook. the whole town is abuzz. at the babysitters club meeting that afternoon, mary anne confirms that the movie is being made for TV & is going to be called "little vampires". then mrs. masters calls from california seeking a full-time sitter for derek, who is one of the stars of the movie. she needs someone to accompany & watch him on the set every day. kristy is the only one whose schedule is open enough to take the job. kristy is pleased because her summer just got a lot more exciting.
i think that is debatable.
a bunch of boring movie stuff happens, like derek explaining what gaffers are, & kristy being surprised at how much make-up derek has to wear in order to avoid looking washed out in the lights. we get a synopsis of the movie: a teenage foreign exchange student comes to town. he's from transylvania & his name is laddie adrulac. turns out he's a vampire--his real name is vladimir dracula. he has been sent to a pastroal american town by his vampire overlords in order to recruit some children into being vampires. he is torn between following through on this mission or just being a regular kid. no word on how exactly a vampire might successfully manage to transform himself into a regular kid. derek is one of the kids laddie struggles to initiate into vampirism.
a lot of accidents start happening on set. derek is fooling around in prop van & ends up smashing a glass tiffany lamp. he slips on a mysterious puddle of oil on set & falls down, wrecking a take. the stuntwoman who flies around on a wire for him falls when her harness doesn't hold. the breakaway glass that derek is supposed to smash through in one scene is swapped for real glass--though the mistake is thankfully discovered before derek gets hurt.
just as a little aside...so when i was in late elementary school, "rescue 911" debuted on TV to try to raise awareness about people having the option of calling 911 in emergencies. it featured real class & actors re-enacting emergencies. one of my faves was an emergency in which a kid smashed through a screen glass door & cut himself up really badly. in the re-enactment, he is covered in blood & running around with his arms out like a tyranosaurus rex, crying & screaming, while his brothers flee from him. my siblings & i thought that was the funniest shit ever. it would have been pretty awesome if it had happened to derek.
but it doesn't. alas.
kristy starts to think that someone might actually be out to hurt derek specifically. she becomes even more convinced of this theory when she finds a threatening note in his trailer. his agent tells her not to worry about it, &...really? his agent? not, say...THE COPS? why is an agent who isn't even on-set or in town qualified to decide what is & is not a credible threat of physical harm?
anyway, kristy starts keeping an eagle eye on derek in an effort to shield him from injury. she & the other sitters also go into detective mode. the suspects:
carson: the teen lead. he's been flubbing his lines & bombing every take, while derek has been doing some grade A acting. the sitters suspect he may want derek out of the picture because derek is making him look bad. but they question whether or not carson is actually smart enough to try to hurt derek.
carson's manager: same motive, a little smarter & therefore more capable.
the PR lady who is working for the film: she says that all publicity is good publicity, & she's definitely been able to generate a lot of publicity from all the on-set accidents. maybe she is causing them?
the propmaster: he was fired in front of everyone after the mix-up with the breakaway glass. maybe he wants revenge? also, his name is zeke & he has red hair. that's gotta hurt.
cokie mason: she's hanging around set trying to catch carson's eye (without any success) & she is usual the culprit whenever bad things happen around the babysitters club.
of course it turns out that all of these folks are red herrings. the real culprit is another young teenage girl hanging around set. her name is lindsey rockaway & she's the daughter of the local company that provided the glass. that's how she had access to swapping the breakaway glass for real glass...i guess. she's in love with carson (not that he cares) & wants to get derek out of the picture because his superior acting is making carson look bad. she messed with the harness that was holding the stuntwoman, thinking derek was going to do the stunt himself...because that happens. children actors routinely do their own dangerous stunts for made-for-TV movies, amirite? she spilled oil on the floor to make derek slip. she left the threatening note. & kristy busts her when she notices her coming in from the parking lot looking all messy, with something black on her hands. kristy follows lindsey downtown to a convenience store, which is convenient in more than one way because a car manual conveniently falls out of lindsey's backpack when she gets out her money to pay for a soda. kristy scoops it up & very conveniently, page 127 has been dog-eared. that's the page on brake malfunctions. even more conveniently, the three sentences on the major causes of brake failure have been tidily highlighted. & kristy knows that after filming wraps on set that afternoon, derek is going to be driven down to new york to meet up with his family in a hired car.
she races back to set & stops the car just before it leaves the parking lot. she shares her suspicions with the driver, who looks under the car & notices the brake line has been cut. just then lindsey saunters by, & kristy yells, "SHE DID IT!" someone calls the police & lindsey is hauled off to hidden acres, a rehabilitation facility for criminally disturbed adolescents. seriously.
filming in stoneybrook wraps & the whole production moves out to california to wrap up on a lot. mrs. masters hires dawn to do the same job there that kristy did in stoneybrook. kristy keeps a scrapbook full of dawn's letters about filming & various press clippings. the press is far too invested in this lame-sounding made-for-TV movie. carson's crazed fangirl is even featured as a page six blind item. i call bullshit.
the B-plot is so stupid...but it did give us our cover scene. apparently claire pike is afraid of vampires. she refuses to go to the set because a lot of the actors are dressed up as vampires. mal gets picked for a walk-on part at one point, & of course her sisters wants to go see her film, but claire refuses to go anywhere near the vampires. finally kristy & mary anne put their heads together & suggest that claire dress up as something really, really scary to scare the vampires back. claire puts on her witch costume from halloween & a vampire actor on set pretends to be scared of her (see cover). boom--her fear of vampires is kaput.
i think that is debatable.
a bunch of boring movie stuff happens, like derek explaining what gaffers are, & kristy being surprised at how much make-up derek has to wear in order to avoid looking washed out in the lights. we get a synopsis of the movie: a teenage foreign exchange student comes to town. he's from transylvania & his name is laddie adrulac. turns out he's a vampire--his real name is vladimir dracula. he has been sent to a pastroal american town by his vampire overlords in order to recruit some children into being vampires. he is torn between following through on this mission or just being a regular kid. no word on how exactly a vampire might successfully manage to transform himself into a regular kid. derek is one of the kids laddie struggles to initiate into vampirism.
a lot of accidents start happening on set. derek is fooling around in prop van & ends up smashing a glass tiffany lamp. he slips on a mysterious puddle of oil on set & falls down, wrecking a take. the stuntwoman who flies around on a wire for him falls when her harness doesn't hold. the breakaway glass that derek is supposed to smash through in one scene is swapped for real glass--though the mistake is thankfully discovered before derek gets hurt.
just as a little aside...so when i was in late elementary school, "rescue 911" debuted on TV to try to raise awareness about people having the option of calling 911 in emergencies. it featured real class & actors re-enacting emergencies. one of my faves was an emergency in which a kid smashed through a screen glass door & cut himself up really badly. in the re-enactment, he is covered in blood & running around with his arms out like a tyranosaurus rex, crying & screaming, while his brothers flee from him. my siblings & i thought that was the funniest shit ever. it would have been pretty awesome if it had happened to derek.
but it doesn't. alas.
kristy starts to think that someone might actually be out to hurt derek specifically. she becomes even more convinced of this theory when she finds a threatening note in his trailer. his agent tells her not to worry about it, &...really? his agent? not, say...THE COPS? why is an agent who isn't even on-set or in town qualified to decide what is & is not a credible threat of physical harm?
anyway, kristy starts keeping an eagle eye on derek in an effort to shield him from injury. she & the other sitters also go into detective mode. the suspects:
carson: the teen lead. he's been flubbing his lines & bombing every take, while derek has been doing some grade A acting. the sitters suspect he may want derek out of the picture because derek is making him look bad. but they question whether or not carson is actually smart enough to try to hurt derek.
carson's manager: same motive, a little smarter & therefore more capable.
the PR lady who is working for the film: she says that all publicity is good publicity, & she's definitely been able to generate a lot of publicity from all the on-set accidents. maybe she is causing them?
the propmaster: he was fired in front of everyone after the mix-up with the breakaway glass. maybe he wants revenge? also, his name is zeke & he has red hair. that's gotta hurt.
cokie mason: she's hanging around set trying to catch carson's eye (without any success) & she is usual the culprit whenever bad things happen around the babysitters club.
of course it turns out that all of these folks are red herrings. the real culprit is another young teenage girl hanging around set. her name is lindsey rockaway & she's the daughter of the local company that provided the glass. that's how she had access to swapping the breakaway glass for real glass...i guess. she's in love with carson (not that he cares) & wants to get derek out of the picture because his superior acting is making carson look bad. she messed with the harness that was holding the stuntwoman, thinking derek was going to do the stunt himself...because that happens. children actors routinely do their own dangerous stunts for made-for-TV movies, amirite? she spilled oil on the floor to make derek slip. she left the threatening note. & kristy busts her when she notices her coming in from the parking lot looking all messy, with something black on her hands. kristy follows lindsey downtown to a convenience store, which is convenient in more than one way because a car manual conveniently falls out of lindsey's backpack when she gets out her money to pay for a soda. kristy scoops it up & very conveniently, page 127 has been dog-eared. that's the page on brake malfunctions. even more conveniently, the three sentences on the major causes of brake failure have been tidily highlighted. & kristy knows that after filming wraps on set that afternoon, derek is going to be driven down to new york to meet up with his family in a hired car.
she races back to set & stops the car just before it leaves the parking lot. she shares her suspicions with the driver, who looks under the car & notices the brake line has been cut. just then lindsey saunters by, & kristy yells, "SHE DID IT!" someone calls the police & lindsey is hauled off to hidden acres, a rehabilitation facility for criminally disturbed adolescents. seriously.
filming in stoneybrook wraps & the whole production moves out to california to wrap up on a lot. mrs. masters hires dawn to do the same job there that kristy did in stoneybrook. kristy keeps a scrapbook full of dawn's letters about filming & various press clippings. the press is far too invested in this lame-sounding made-for-TV movie. carson's crazed fangirl is even featured as a page six blind item. i call bullshit.
the B-plot is so stupid...but it did give us our cover scene. apparently claire pike is afraid of vampires. she refuses to go to the set because a lot of the actors are dressed up as vampires. mal gets picked for a walk-on part at one point, & of course her sisters wants to go see her film, but claire refuses to go anywhere near the vampires. finally kristy & mary anne put their heads together & suggest that claire dress up as something really, really scary to scare the vampires back. claire puts on her witch costume from halloween & a vampire actor on set pretends to be scared of her (see cover). boom--her fear of vampires is kaput.
February 23, 2026
BSC Mystery 15
Was not as distracting from world news (hello blood drinking predators) as I had hoped. I’m with Claire Pike - “vampires ARE real!”
Was not as distracting from world news (hello blood drinking predators) as I had hoped. I’m with Claire Pike - “vampires ARE real!”
March 6, 2026
Another Kristy mystery which happens to be the best one I have read.
There is fun to be had in this one as the cover suggests but it also has a really good mystery with a reveal that not even the characters saw coming!
The title is misleading so if you expect anything actually scary, you won't find horror in this book.
A movie is being made called Little Vampires during the summer and it will be filming in Stoneybrook because one of the actors in it has a home there and had his parents suggest using it to film. The actor is Derek Masters whom the BSC has sat for before (in the book Jessi and the Superbrat) but he has become a much better kid since then.
Since his parents can't watch him and his little actor brother all the time on set, they call the BSC to find a sitter. Kristy and Claudia are the only ones free for both boys and it involves getting up really early during the summer filming schedule.
The elementary school and an older home close to where Mary Anne lives will be the locations used in town and people in town can have a chance to have walk-on roles as extras or even work on the set. Kristy's oldest brother Charlie gets a job working as a gofer since he has to drive Kristy to set every day to watch Derek even though he isn't the main star.
That would be an older teen actor named Carson Fraser who may look good, but we get to see that he isn't anywhere near as talented as Derek and kind of a jerk even though he has tons of girls following him around set. Soon there are accidents occurring on the set where no one gets really hurt but the possibility that they could is crystal clear involving stunt work and what is supposed to be a pane of breakaway glass.
Kristy thinks that someone is after Derek and so do the other sitters in the BSC. Even though they can only watch from a distance, the other BSC members do their own detective work as Kristy and Claudia keep an eye on both Derek and his little brother. Kristy thinks it could be either Carson or his manager since Derek is getting so much attention, but the PR lady and a fired prop master are the other suspects.
Kristy finds a letter in Derek's trailer that is written in red ink like blood and she becomes a fierce mama bear to try and discover who could be going after a child under her care.
As I stated, there are bits of light-hearted comedy to keep you from feeling completely in suspense.
Mallory's little sister Claire has developed a fear of vampires thanks to her older brothers, and it makes her other sisters miffed when Mallory gets a chance to have a role as an extra. Claire runs off screaming at an older actor dressed as a vampire to his bewilderment, but it gets a great payoff later.
Also, the BSC's biggest enemy Cokie Mason starts being super nice to Kristy as she watches from the crowd trying to get Carson's attention. She even throws a party for the cast and crew, and it doesn't really go the way Cokie plans.
Kristy and the Vampires would actually be a good book to make some sort of adaptation for TV or streaming, I guess. I would watch and if you are a fan of good mysteries and Kristy is your favorite character, you should really read this.
There is fun to be had in this one as the cover suggests but it also has a really good mystery with a reveal that not even the characters saw coming!
The title is misleading so if you expect anything actually scary, you won't find horror in this book.
A movie is being made called Little Vampires during the summer and it will be filming in Stoneybrook because one of the actors in it has a home there and had his parents suggest using it to film. The actor is Derek Masters whom the BSC has sat for before (in the book Jessi and the Superbrat) but he has become a much better kid since then.
Since his parents can't watch him and his little actor brother all the time on set, they call the BSC to find a sitter. Kristy and Claudia are the only ones free for both boys and it involves getting up really early during the summer filming schedule.
The elementary school and an older home close to where Mary Anne lives will be the locations used in town and people in town can have a chance to have walk-on roles as extras or even work on the set. Kristy's oldest brother Charlie gets a job working as a gofer since he has to drive Kristy to set every day to watch Derek even though he isn't the main star.
That would be an older teen actor named Carson Fraser who may look good, but we get to see that he isn't anywhere near as talented as Derek and kind of a jerk even though he has tons of girls following him around set. Soon there are accidents occurring on the set where no one gets really hurt but the possibility that they could is crystal clear involving stunt work and what is supposed to be a pane of breakaway glass.
Kristy thinks that someone is after Derek and so do the other sitters in the BSC. Even though they can only watch from a distance, the other BSC members do their own detective work as Kristy and Claudia keep an eye on both Derek and his little brother. Kristy thinks it could be either Carson or his manager since Derek is getting so much attention, but the PR lady and a fired prop master are the other suspects.
Kristy finds a letter in Derek's trailer that is written in red ink like blood and she becomes a fierce mama bear to try and discover who could be going after a child under her care.
As I stated, there are bits of light-hearted comedy to keep you from feeling completely in suspense.
Mallory's little sister Claire has developed a fear of vampires thanks to her older brothers, and it makes her other sisters miffed when Mallory gets a chance to have a role as an extra. Claire runs off screaming at an older actor dressed as a vampire to his bewilderment, but it gets a great payoff later.
Also, the BSC's biggest enemy Cokie Mason starts being super nice to Kristy as she watches from the crowd trying to get Carson's attention. She even throws a party for the cast and crew, and it doesn't really go the way Cokie plans.
Kristy and the Vampires would actually be a good book to make some sort of adaptation for TV or streaming, I guess. I would watch and if you are a fan of good mysteries and Kristy is your favorite character, you should really read this.
February 15, 2022
Another mystery for the BSC! Kristy was asked to help out with Derek while filming a movie in Stoneybrook. Little accidents start happening that put her charge on risk. Kristy discovered a threatening letter and realized that these might not be "accidents" at all, but someone deliberately trying to hurt Derek. Of course everyone helps out to solve who was behind all these.
I thought it was rather silly that a bunch of 13 year olds were able to solve this "mystery" where the adults can't. There was danger on set and no one could figure it out? Derek's terrible co-actor should have also been fired if he was acting terribly and would not listen to the director.
But again, happy ending. LOL
I thought it was rather silly that a bunch of 13 year olds were able to solve this "mystery" where the adults can't. There was danger on set and no one could figure it out? Derek's terrible co-actor should have also been fired if he was acting terribly and would not listen to the director.
But again, happy ending. LOL
January 4, 2017
this is my first time reading this book!
in this misleadingly-titled book by ghostwriter Ellen Miles, derek masters (the titular superbrat in Jessi and the Superbrat) is back in stoneybrook for the summer, filming a tv movie called little vampires (with kristy as his on-set babysitter). it is super arbitrary that the movie is about vampires, though, because vampires do not factor into the plot at all. this is no pale neighbors move in next door and seem to sleep all day and stay up all night-style mystery. in actuality someone seems to have it out for derek. he keeps being involved in accidents and near-accidents that could have seriously injured him. turns out the other star of the movie, carson, has a crazed superfan who doesn't like that derek is taking the limelight away from carson, and is trying to get derek out of carson's way by hurting and/or killing him.
highlights:
-actual introduction of many characters who could potentially be the perp: the PR person for the movie who sees all publicity as good publicity, the propmaster who resents getting fired, carson's manager who wants to make carson look good all the time, etc. it's almost like ellen miles wrote a REAL mystery here!
-I think that's it. sorry guys, these mysteries suck!
lowlights:
-WHY vampires? why make that the title of the book? I had such expectations for a cheesy supernatural book and was so totally disappointed.
-carson says something about how this movie could make his career. a tv movie about vampire kids shot in stoneybrook connecticut could MAKE his career.
-cokie is so pathetically desperate for carson's attention in this book. it's a real bummer to read.
-claire pike being scared of vampires and therefore unwilling to go to the movie set is the subplot. for real. as though that's even a plotline. it's resolved by her dressing as a witch (something she thinks is scarier than vampires, so theoretically the vampires will be scared of her).
-much of the movie is filmed in hollywood so dawn replaces kristy as derek's babysitter. but we have been told time and time again that palo city (dawn's fictional hometown) is both near anaheim and has a beach. are we to believe that dawn is getting a ride 1-1.5 hours both ways every day to hollywood? once again, I call bullshit on ann m martin and the ghostwriters for knowing NOTHING ABOUT CALIFORNIA.
sheila mayberry (PR person for the movie):
-"Just then, a woman wearing a red silk blouse, a short black shirt, and red high heels trotted up to Carson."
cokie:
-"Cokie minced up to us on white high-heeled sandals. She was wearing a white, ruffly peasant blouse that was pulled off her shoulders, and a pink flowered skirt."
snacks in claudia's room:
-oreos (n.s.)
-starbursts (n.s.)
-kit kat (n.s.)
-twix (n.s.)
-twizzlers (n.s.)
in this misleadingly-titled book by ghostwriter Ellen Miles, derek masters (the titular superbrat in Jessi and the Superbrat) is back in stoneybrook for the summer, filming a tv movie called little vampires (with kristy as his on-set babysitter). it is super arbitrary that the movie is about vampires, though, because vampires do not factor into the plot at all. this is no pale neighbors move in next door and seem to sleep all day and stay up all night-style mystery. in actuality someone seems to have it out for derek. he keeps being involved in accidents and near-accidents that could have seriously injured him. turns out the other star of the movie, carson, has a crazed superfan who doesn't like that derek is taking the limelight away from carson, and is trying to get derek out of carson's way by hurting and/or killing him.
highlights:
-actual introduction of many characters who could potentially be the perp: the PR person for the movie who sees all publicity as good publicity, the propmaster who resents getting fired, carson's manager who wants to make carson look good all the time, etc. it's almost like ellen miles wrote a REAL mystery here!
-I think that's it. sorry guys, these mysteries suck!
lowlights:
-WHY vampires? why make that the title of the book? I had such expectations for a cheesy supernatural book and was so totally disappointed.
-carson says something about how this movie could make his career. a tv movie about vampire kids shot in stoneybrook connecticut could MAKE his career.
-cokie is so pathetically desperate for carson's attention in this book. it's a real bummer to read.
-claire pike being scared of vampires and therefore unwilling to go to the movie set is the subplot. for real. as though that's even a plotline. it's resolved by her dressing as a witch (something she thinks is scarier than vampires, so theoretically the vampires will be scared of her).
-much of the movie is filmed in hollywood so dawn replaces kristy as derek's babysitter. but we have been told time and time again that palo city (dawn's fictional hometown) is both near anaheim and has a beach. are we to believe that dawn is getting a ride 1-1.5 hours both ways every day to hollywood? once again, I call bullshit on ann m martin and the ghostwriters for knowing NOTHING ABOUT CALIFORNIA.
sheila mayberry (PR person for the movie):
-"Just then, a woman wearing a red silk blouse, a short black shirt, and red high heels trotted up to Carson."
cokie:
-"Cokie minced up to us on white high-heeled sandals. She was wearing a white, ruffly peasant blouse that was pulled off her shoulders, and a pink flowered skirt."
snacks in claudia's room:
-oreos (n.s.)
-starbursts (n.s.)
-kit kat (n.s.)
-twix (n.s.)
-twizzlers (n.s.)
December 2, 2024
I think a big part of why the BSC books resonated so deeply with their child audience was because they take not only the BSC themselves, but their child charges, completely seriously. Claire Pike is the hero of this book!
October 26, 2010
Not too bad for a mystery, and I've always liked Derek, but it still had some major "oh come ON!" moments.
October 19, 2023
Actor Derek masters, a baby sitting charge, is filming a movie about vampires in Stoneybrook and Kristy is baby sitting him on the set. In reality, I would think parents/guardians of age would be supervising child actors
Anyways, a lot of dangerous things happen on the set, such as fake glass turning out to be real glass and things like that. Just as something even more dangerous was about to happen, Kristy followed a suspect and figured out she was the culprit. A big fan of another actor on the set who was upset Derek was acting better than him. It was quite disturbing what was going on, but I guess it’s good fiction
I also thought it was adorable when Claire pike said she’s scared of vampires and the baby sitters suggested she scare them, which is what’s happening on the cover
Anyways, a lot of dangerous things happen on the set, such as fake glass turning out to be real glass and things like that. Just as something even more dangerous was about to happen, Kristy followed a suspect and figured out she was the culprit. A big fan of another actor on the set who was upset Derek was acting better than him. It was quite disturbing what was going on, but I guess it’s good fiction
I also thought it was adorable when Claire pike said she’s scared of vampires and the baby sitters suggested she scare them, which is what’s happening on the cover
July 7, 2025
It's a BSC book so it gets two stars lol. I'm only putting this on here so I remember I read it. I partially read it aloud to my child, laughing at all the incorrect stuff about movie-making they got wrong. Like when a 13 year old girl is like "Show me the production documents" and the PA is like "Oh shit okay."
I know these books are silly but I loved them as a kid. I recently made a giant list of all the ones I've read and the ones I haven't read yet. Idk I'm going to search them all out to read? Or just ones that seem interesting? Or ones I can find for cheap at thrift stores or on e-book sales? Either way, I like vampires so I picked this one to read. It was goofy. Kristy never was one of my favorites.
I know these books are silly but I loved them as a kid. I recently made a giant list of all the ones I've read and the ones I haven't read yet. Idk I'm going to search them all out to read? Or just ones that seem interesting? Or ones I can find for cheap at thrift stores or on e-book sales? Either way, I like vampires so I picked this one to read. It was goofy. Kristy never was one of my favorites.
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January 29, 2024Back on my BSC bullshit.
Would any film company let an actor hire a thirteen-year-old babysitter, even if the actor and the babysitter were from the same small town? I have never worked on a film set, so I may never know the answer.
Also, isn't Derek Masters like, nine years old? Why is he cast as the friend of a teenage vampire?
Also also, I love how Carson Fraser's character's name is Laddie (short for Vladimir) Aculard (an anagram of Dracula) -- I guess they couldn't call him Laddie Alucard without pissing off the makers of Castlevania.
Would any film company let an actor hire a thirteen-year-old babysitter, even if the actor and the babysitter were from the same small town? I have never worked on a film set, so I may never know the answer.
Also, isn't Derek Masters like, nine years old? Why is he cast as the friend of a teenage vampire?
Also also, I love how Carson Fraser's character's name is Laddie (short for Vladimir) Aculard (an anagram of Dracula) -- I guess they couldn't call him Laddie Alucard without pissing off the makers of Castlevania.
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July 29, 2020As a kid my best friends sister had the whole BSC series on a book shelf in her room. I thought she was so grown up. And I envied this bookshelf. And would often poke my head into that room just to look at it.
And when I read BSC, I felt like such a grown up.
And while I might have still been a little too young to understand some of the issues dealt with in these books, I do appreciated that Ann M. Martin tackled age appropriate issues, some being deeper than others, but still important.
And when I read BSC, I felt like such a grown up.
And while I might have still been a little too young to understand some of the issues dealt with in these books, I do appreciated that Ann M. Martin tackled age appropriate issues, some being deeper than others, but still important.
January 11, 2022
Instinctively I want to give this a 2, but there was nothing really bad about it? This is just… ugh, Kristy books just have no personality. In fact, Kristy seems to be the only one not experiencing any character growth. She's just rabidly obsessed with babysitting to the point that she would rather coach a misfit peewee team than actually play the game herself. Swap Kristy with any sitter and you'd have the same, if not more interesting, book.
August 2, 2024
Ok I've never heard "Laddie" as a nickname for Vladimir. But it IS the name of the little boy vampire in The Lost Boys. This book basically just mashes together a bunch of 80s vampire pop culture, also including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie). The resolutions of these books, when there are actual serious illegal acts committed, are always kinda shaky. Overall enjoyable.
January 7, 2025
This was a good premise, but it didn't make sense with Kristy. She's not into movies and actors, so it would have been better with Mary Anne or Claudia or Stacy. Also, Derek's klutz issue was uncreative (too much like Jackie Rodowsky) and out of character. Anyway, the mystery unraveled slowly, but the villain reveal was a good twist.
August 10, 2023
Fun mystery and it's always nice to see behind the scenes of a movie. I do think that
September 25, 2018
I still absolutely love this one!
April 15, 2020
Cute.
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October 25, 2020Read my recap at A Year with the BSC via Stoneybrook Forever: https://www.livethemovies.com/bsc-blo...
December 5, 2020
thoroughly enjoyed this baby sitters club book as usual
December 11, 2020
There sure was an awful lot of fuss (and I don't mean from the Stoneybrookites, I don't blame them!) for a made-for-tv-movie.
January 26, 2021
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Another ridiculous premise for another BSC mystery. Basic story with some unrealistic stuff, and once again we see mental illness panned over as the person being “crazy.” How fun.
Another ridiculous premise for another BSC mystery. Basic story with some unrealistic stuff, and once again we see mental illness panned over as the person being “crazy.” How fun.
October 24, 2021
This didn't really even read like a BSC book at all. Very little active baby sitting and very little effort in actually solving a mystery. Aaaalmost as bad as Dawn and the Surfer Ghost but not quite.
December 8, 2024
A childhood favorite!!
August 24, 2021
This novel is a young adult book, but only if 13-14 is a young adult. I am simply not sure what the cut-off is, but the principal character, Kristin (Kristy) Thomas is 13 although she babysits children younger than she.
The gist of the novel is a movie being filmed in her home town of Sunnybrook, and her being hired to babysit one of the actors. This is a boy that she knows because he used to live in the town. While she is watching over him some strange things start happening and she and the members of her babysitting club have to solve it.
I found myself actually thinking that young people don't talk like these did. I suspect the woman who wrote the book, is perhaps almost as unfamiliar with how children talk as I am...either that or I am more out of it than I thought. The novel would likely be a good teaching tool for younger folks about what it might be like appearing a film.
The gist of the novel is a movie being filmed in her home town of Sunnybrook, and her being hired to babysit one of the actors. This is a boy that she knows because he used to live in the town. While she is watching over him some strange things start happening and she and the members of her babysitting club have to solve it.
I found myself actually thinking that young people don't talk like these did. I suspect the woman who wrote the book, is perhaps almost as unfamiliar with how children talk as I am...either that or I am more out of it than I thought. The novel would likely be a good teaching tool for younger folks about what it might be like appearing a film.
January 21, 2024
What a dull weird story. Derek Masters returns to Stoneybrook filming a movie about vampires. Kristy gets a job on set. Derek is amazing outshining the star Carson. Then accidents begin to happen on set that could cause serious injuries and Kristy and the BSC are determined to find out who is causing these things. The b plot involves Claire being afraid of vampires and not wanting To go on set to the annoyance of her siblings. These mysteries are something else.
September 8, 2009
Very cute book!
May 6, 2021
It was a good book.
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