A brand-new Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adapted by Eisner-nominated artist Chan Chau!
Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language!
Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy. Jessi's the busiest of all -- she's preparing for her dance school's big show, plus working on another secret, just for Matt. Will Jessi be able to keep the secret and pull off her performance?
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Book Details
Imprint
Scholastic Inc
Publication Year
2023
Number of Pages
256
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Author Info
Meredith Costain is an extremely popular and prolific writer. So far she has written over forty books, including novels, novelisations (of the internationally successful television programme Heartbreak High), picture books, and non-fiction books. A former English teacher, Meredith Costain now writes and edits children s publications full-time. She also teaches Writing for Children at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and is Literary and Popular Culture Editor for three national student magazines. Meredith won the Fellowship of Australian Writer's Mary Grant Bruce Story Award for Children s Literature in 1992 and 1993, and judged it in 1994. Her picture book Musical Harriet was voted a Notable Book in the 1996 Children s Book Council of Australia Awards, and was adapted for television by ABC TV.