{"id":6764,"date":"2026-07-27T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=6764"},"modified":"2026-07-27T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:09:16","slug":"readers-advisory-episode-294-kristys-great-idea-baby-sitters-club-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/readers-advisory-episode-294-kristys-great-idea-baby-sitters-club-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers Advisory: Episode 294 &#8211; Kristy&#8217;s Great Idea (Baby-Sitters Club #1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what we suggest instead of\/in addition to reading <em> Kristy&#8217;s Great Idea (Baby-Sitters Club #1) <\/em>by Ann M. Martin. Listen to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-294-kristys-great-idea-baby-sitters-club-1\">the podcast<\/a>\u00a0to hear us talk about some of these titles in more depth!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6769 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/summer-150x214.jpg\" alt=\"Baby-sitter Summer: The Baby-sitters Club Fan Edition, edited by Ann M. Martin\" width=\"150\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/summer-150x214.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/summer-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/summer-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/summer.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5880 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/katie-150x215.jpg\" alt=\"Katie the Catsitter by Colleen AF Venable and Stephanie Yue\" width=\"150\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/katie-150x215.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/katie-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/katie.jpg 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6770 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/confidential-146x220.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal\" width=\"146\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/confidential-146x220.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/confidential-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/confidential.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9781546171379\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Baby-sitter Summer: The Baby-sitters Club Fan Edition<\/em>, edited by Ann M. Martin<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9798217032198\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Katie the Catsitter<\/em> by Colleen AF Venable<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9780312667580\"><em>Sweet Valley Confidential<\/em> by Francine Pascal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bscnetflix-150x220.jpeg\" alt=\"Baby-Sitters Club Netflix\" width=\"150\" height=\"220\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Toy_Story_5_poster.jpg-150x220.webp\" alt=\"Toy Story 5\" width=\"150\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81005407\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baby-Sitters Club (Netflix show)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/toy-story-5-review\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Toy Story 5<\/em> (movie)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what we suggest instead of\/in addition to reading Kristy&#8217;s Great Idea (Baby-Sitters Club #1) by Ann M. 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Listen to\u00a0the podcast\u00a0to hear us talk about some of these titles in more depth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[865,864,2731,850,1152,48,30,2730],"class_list":["post-6764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ra","tag-ann-m-martin","tag-baby-sitters-club","tag-colleen-af-venable","tag-flashback-summer","tag-francine-pascal","tag-readalikes","tag-readers-advisory","tag-toy-story-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6772,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions\/6772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}