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Stacey and the Missing Ring
by Ann M. Martin

Stacey has to find that ring - or business is over for the Baby-sitters Club!

Sure enough, when I told her about my conversation with Mrs. Gardella, Kristy was furious.

"How dare she?" she asked. "I can't believe this."

"I didn't take the ring, Kristy," I said in a small voice.

"Stacey," she answered. "I know and you know that you didn't take the ring. Don't worry about that. But what we do have to worry about is keeping the clients that we already have."

"How are we going to do that?" I asked.

"I don't know yet. But I do know that this calls for an emergency meeting of the BSC. Can you make it to Claud's house by noon?"

I told her I could.

"Good," she said. "I'll call everybody else. There must be something we can do."

After we hung up, I went to the bathroom to wash my face. I looked at myself in the mirror. This was serious business, and I knew it. "Stacey McGill," I said to myself, "just remember this: You are not a thief." I nodded firmly. But I felt very, very scared.

Stacey and the Missing Ring
Published by Scholastic Inc. 1996
ISBN: 0590440845