Karen's New Year (Baby-sitters Little Sister #14)

Karen and a wedding?! My first Little Sister. I loved reading this on a rainy summer Sydney day. I own all the little sister books and I randomly chose this one out of my pile. They are very short, written in the voice of Karen who is only just 7, so the quirky voice she speaks in is quite mature for......more

Parenting fail. Even compared to other LS books the parenting in this one is bad. I'm talking Sweet Valley bad. If Karen's parents, any of the four of them, had sat her down right at the beginning and had explained to her properly what a resolution was the whole book never would have happened. There's......more

Karen was a brat, and was actually called on it. She actually faced ramifications that were appropriate. If only that happened more often.......more

3 1\2 ** cute book......more

Karen goes overboard with the concept of New Year's resolutions and basically makes a big stink on how she's the only one even bothering to keep her resolutions (though as Karen's Mommy rightly points out, Karen's edited her resolutions to make them easier to keep). Karen also tattles on friends and......more