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Starring the Baby-sitters Club!
by Ann M. Martin

With Kristy in the starring role as Peter Pan, and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club involved onstage and off, the show is sure to be a hit...

"Dawn, you're still going to try out for Tiger Lily, aren't you?" asked Mary Anne. "Don't let Cokie stop you."

I made a face. "I don't know. Being involved with Cokie - in any way - is so unpleasant. Plus, I don't want to beat her and I don't want her to beat me. If I beat her, she'll make my life miserable. If she beats me, I'll never hear the end of it. So either way, I lose."

"Dawn, don't you dare not try out just because of Cokie," said Kristy. "You are not a quitter. And since when do you care what other people think of you?"

"It's not so much what she thinks," I answered. It's what she'll do. You guys know very well what she'd done in the past." Everything from scaring us to death to trying to steal our boyfriends.

My friends and I returned to our lunches, even though I was pretty sure Cokie and Grace were now whispering about us. Probably they were plotting horrible, terrifying deeds. However, I tried to concentrate on our own conversation, and I turned toward my sister.

"A bunch of the Pike kids are definitely going to try out," Mary Anne was saying. "Mal told us this morning."

"Charlotte refuses," spoke up Stacey. "I knew she would." Stacey after sits for Charlotte Johanssen, who is a wonderful kid, but very shy.

"I'm with Charlotte," said Mary Anne. "I bet Becca Ramsey won't try out, either." Jessi's little sister is as shy as Charlotte, which may be why they're best friends.

"I talked to Karen last night," said Kristy. "She has her heart set on Tinker Bell. I hope she won't be disappointed. I tried to tell her that Tinker Bell isn't an actual person. She's not really a character in the play. But…"

I couldn't help it. My mind drifted from our conversation back to the one at Cokie's table. Maybe I wouldn't try out for the play after all.

Starring the Baby-sitters Club!
Published by Scholastic Inc. 1996
ISBN: 059045661X