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Babysitters

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     I recently spotted a used book being sold for a few cents, so I snatched it up.  It was actually a boxed set of books 1-4 of the Babysitter's Club series, which were very popular when I was growing up.  I believe that there were 131 books in the Babysitter's Club series, written from 1986-1999 (plus some other interrelated series about the characters).  I lost count of them long before the series concluded (I grew older than the intended audience, although the characters were frozen as 13-year-olds for a long time).  My sister, friends and I read these books.  They were everywhere.  This very popular series is very nostalgic to my generation of young girls.  Back in 1990, there was a television show based on the books, and it was actually very cute.  In 1995 (just as I was growing beyond it and losing interest), a movie came out in theaters, which was fun.  Some of my friends tried to start their own Babysitters Club, but ...