Snowbound
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Claud phoned the other BSC members, and before I knew it, the entire club had gathered at my house. Logan and Quint, too.
“Don’t ever think we wouldn’t miss you,” Claud said to me.
“Yeah. I’m very nosy,” added Mal. “I can usually tell whether you’re home or not, and it matters to me.”
“Okay, okay. I’ll stay in touch!” I said. “That’s a promise.”
Then we went outside. We built a mammoth snowman and snow woman in our front yard.
“Look. They’re ready for the Winter Wonderland Dance,” whispered Mary Anne. “Just like we are.”
“Tomorrow night is going to be magic,” I said.
“But most important,” added Kristy, “the BSC will be there together.”
“OH! oh, my — Mom! Hey, Mom!”
“Kristy, what on earth is going on?” asked my mother.
“Mom, you’ll never guess who was on the phone. That was Marian Tan, the woman from the Stoneybrook News. I mean, the editor. And she wants to print my article. Honest. She really likes the idea. And she’s going to pay me.”
“That’s fantastic, honey,” said Mom.
“Boy, I have to get to work.”
“Didn’t your friends already write about their blizzard experiences?” Mom wanted to know.
“Yes, but there’s too much material for one newspaper article. I have to trim it down. And make it fit together. Plus, we’re all still working on our final entries — you know, how things ended up, what happened after the storm, how the Winter Wonderland Dance went. That kind of thing.”
I was pretty sure that a phone call saying “SNOWBOUND!” was going to be published would bring in those last pieces of material quickly. And I was right. By the next day, I had everything I needed for the article:
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.
There are currently over 176 million copies of The Baby-sitters Club in print. (If you stacked all of these books up, the pile would be 21,245 miles high.) In addition to The Baby-sitters Club, Ann is the author of two other series, Main Street and Family Tree. Her novels include Belle Teal, A Corner of the Universe (a Newbery Honor book), Here Today, A Dog’s Life, On Christmas Eve, Everything for a Dog, Ten Rules for Living with My Sister, and Ten Good and Bad Things About My Life (So Far). She is also the coauthor, with Laura Godwin, of the Doll People series.
Ann lives in upstate New York with her dog and her cats.
Copyright © 1991 by Ann M. Martin.
Cover art by Hodges Soileau
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First edition, December 1991
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