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Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club

Stoneybrook Reunion

On Stoneybrook Reunion, three 40-somethings time-travel to their childhoods to revisit stories about a fictional Connecticut town"s best babysitters. Join us as we discuss, dissect, and wax rhapsodic about The Baby-Sitters Club series and its cultural—and personal—impact.

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00:00:53

Season 3 Preview

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2025/01/29

We'll be back in a couple of weeks! Until then, tune in to our special Emergency Meeting, releasing on Thursday!

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01:43:46

Heather is My Bunkie

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2025/01/09

Somehow it’s summer again in the Baby-sitters-verse, and that means it’s time for more Super Special-style world-building! In Baby-sitters’ Summer Vacation, the map expands upstate as the Stoneybrook sitters cajole Stacey into leaving the comforts of concrete (?) and Bloomingdale’s to join them as counselors-in-training at Camp Mohawk/Camp Moosehead. Excavate your embroidery floss and meet us and CharJo at the craft cabin as we unravel the common threads between Super Special #2 and The Parent Trap

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01:10:01

Sports, Sports, Cute Boy, Sports

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2025/01/01

Hello, sports (and romance) fans! You’re in for a treat–this week’s book/episode is light on babysitting and heavy on baseball (and crush-induced butterflies). When all of the kids in Stoneybrook seem to be in their backyards with bats and gloves, Kristy notices that the local little league has left out her younger siblings and many of the club’s charges. In a typical Kristy move, she decides to start and coach a softball team of her own–but her Krushers [sic] aren’t the only game in town. Soon

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01:31:44

The Presence of Suspenders, Period.

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/12/25

A prank gone awry during a gig lands Claudia in the hospital and launches her into an existential crisis. If babysitting is this risky, she’s not sure it’s for her! While Claudia recovers and once again mulls whether she’ll leave the club, the BSC takes on the serious business of sitting for and waging a practical joke war with the new problem child charge, Betsy. Sit beside us on the Sobaks’ sofa (but watch out for that whoopee cushion!) as we discuss Claudia and the Bad Joke, and what Lady Gaga

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01:17:15

Have Fun and Be Careful!

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/12/19

When an upcoming gig in Stacey’s apartment building is too much for the single-member NY branch of the BSC to handle, she invites the OG sitters to travel down and pitch in–but she’s shocked at the versions of her friends who show up. Usually cool Claudia rolls into Grand Central with a suitcase on wheels–how embarrassing!, self-assured Dawn is afraid of her own shadow, and Mary Anne is not at all shy about sharing her ambitious itinerary or shading one of her BFFs. (Kristy is, well, Kristy.) The

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01:24:09

Anxiety Dream on Bradford Court

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/12/11

A string of mishaps at home, school, and on the job have the babysitters wondering whether Mary Anne should have responded to an ominous chain letter …better wear the follow-on so-called bad-luck charm just in case. This book has everything: surprise mail, an emergency library quest, DIY costumes, a cemetery, and the first appearance of the series villain. Meet us at midnight at Old Man Hickory's headstone, under the light of a full moon, as we hold flashlights under our chins and chat about

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01:22:37

A Dancing J

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/12/05

Though Jessi has only recently arrived in Stoneybrook and joined the BSC, she steps up to take the lead role in an upcoming ballet performance and take on a twice-a-week sitting gig for the Braddocks, another new family in the neighborhood. Matt Braddock is deaf and uses sign language to communicate, and Jessi sees that he and his sister Haley are having a tough time settling in. Jessi is just the right sitter for the job, with her empathy, facility with languages and expression through movement,

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01:25:26

Do the Hornpipe!

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/11/27

The pageant circuit has come to Stoneybrook, and the two youngest Pike girls are HERE FOR IT–Margo can’t wait to show off her toothy alligator swimsuit and her unconventional banana-peeling method. Mrs. Pike rings the BSC to recruit the collected and capable Dawn as their coach (don’t even think about asking Mallory to help out her sibs on this one), and the special gig inspires a spirit of competition among the senior sitters. Strap on your tap shoes, grab your lolliprop, and peek from behind the

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01:29:04

Seeing Through Someone Else's Shoes

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/11/21

After Stacey moves back to New York, a vacancy in the club creates an opportunity for the eldest Pike child to graduate from charge to sitter–but opinions differ on whether Mallory is ready for the responsibility. Bolstered by a budding best friendship, Mallory and the latest new girl in town, Jessi Ramsey, decide to strike out on their own and threaten the BSC’s monopoly. Join us at the moping tree to hatch plans, talk horse books, and greet/meet the ambitious sixth grade sitters in Hello,

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01:24:52

Yard Sale People

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/11/13

Just as Stacey has hit her stride in Stoneybrook, she hears that her family will soon return to the big city…and she'll have to leave her new BFF Claudia, the club, and all of the suburban clutter from the McGill home behind. How will the BSC manage without one of its founding members, and how will they give Stacey a proper send-off? Head on over with your spare wares, pull up a folding chair, and kvetch with us about punctuation, grammar, and cumbersome fabric going-away gifts as we discuss Goodbye

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01:21:47

The Girl with the Six Dangly Earrings

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/11/06

Another new girl has moved to Stoneybrook…and this one doesn’t bother to secure her boho braid with an elastic or give a flip about babysitting. Ashley Wyeth’s life revolves around her ART, and she soon pulls Claudia into that orbit. Unsurprisingly, the BSC won’t give up their VP without a fight and a flurry of passive-aggressive notes. Meet us at the gallery opening in your vintage flared denim and huddle around a half-completed sculpture as we whisper about Claudia and the New Girl.Newbery Award

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01:19:15

Hysle Cats and Logistorks

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/10/30

Welcome back to Season 2!Louie, I’ve a feeling we’re not on Bradford Court anymore! After Kristy’s mom marries Watson, our fearless leader finds herself across town in a land of tennis courts, front hall fountains, pedigreed pets…and snobs. Kristy can’t seem to catch a break as the new kid on the block–the family dog is not doing well, and a rankled resident sitter is defending her turf by waging a prank war. But Kristy has the support of the BSC, and they win over the nouveau riche new clients

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00:00:44

We'll be back soon!

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/10/14

Hey BSC fans! We just wanted to drop in to say we miss you and we will be back in a couple of weeks. Get your ears ready for our discussions of: -Kristy and the Snobs -Claudia and the New Girl -Goodbye Stacey, Goodbye -Hello, Mallory -Little Miss Stoneybrook... and Dawn -Jessi's Secret Language -Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery -Stacey's Mistake -Claudia and the Bad Joke -Kristy and the Walking Disaster -Super Special #2: Baby-sitters' Summer Vacation

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02:04:08

Seashell-Shaped Soaps & NPCs

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/09/18

Thanks to the largesse of Mr. Pike’s employer and kindly Stoneybrook gajillionaire Watson, the Pikes, Brewers, Thomases, and entire BSC fly to Florida for a twenty-two-person, three-site vacation outside of time. In this super special Super Special episode, our friend/fave film critic/Disney scholar and Disney-goer Tim joins us aboard the Ocean Princess and in Magic Kingdom queues as we immerse ourselves in the MMORPG that is Baby-sitters on Board!, a book with “the structure of As I Lay Dying, with

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01:43:30

MIddle School Rizz

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/09/11

It’s the start of the eighth grade, and Mary Anne is the last of the sitters to turn 13…but the first to have a boyfriend! (How fast she forgets her Sea City special someone when another boy baby-sitter enters the scene!) To commemorate this major series moment, we welcome our first guest (and a newcomer to the BSC books) to share a guy’s POV on middle school milestones. Retreat to the bleachers during the school dance with us as we consider conversation-starting locker decor, build a party

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01:08:48

Old-Timey Ice Cream Cones

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/09/04

Step aside, narrator Dawn, because the Schafer home is a-creaking and a-groaning and giving spooky main character energy in The Ghost at Dawn’s House. Grab your flashlight and creep through Connecticut boiler rooms and barns with us as we whisper about the rite of [secret] passage[s] and the horrors of certain so-called “salads.” Extra credit reading list: Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh Don’t Touch My Room by Patricia Lakin Goosebumps/Fear Street series by R.L. Stine Scary Stories to Tell in

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01:31:38

Pack Your Own Lunch, Lifeguard!

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/08/28

Two carsful of Pikes are headed to the Jersey shore, and two babysitters are along for the ride as "mother's helpers." Stacey can't help falling in LUV with a lifeguard and leaves all of the labor to Mary Anne, who is red with anger, or sunburn, or both. Link arms and stroll the boardwalk with us as we question Boy-Crazy Stacey's supposed sophistication and gift selections and describe our own travel memories and mementos. One of us may still be fired up about the straw doll

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01:15:53

Claudia and Janine's Cruel Summer

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/08/21

School’s out for Claudia, but her sister won’t give her a break–any conversation with Janine the Genius involves a lesson. A family member’s serious health emergency forces the sisters to examine their sibling strife and confront their lifelong communication issues in Claudia and Mean Janine.*** Information on the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans in the U.S. during WWII, from the National Archives *** Additional show notes, listed in order of discussion: An external

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00:45:44

EMERGENCY MEETING: Come Play MASH With Us!

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/08/17

Grab your pet manatee, hop in your Flintstones Foot Car, and don't forget to kiss your husband Devon Sawa on your way to the WNBA– we're predicting futures, middle-school-fantasy-style. This Emergency Meeting was called for one reason and one reason only: a good old-fashioned game of MASH. Who were your celebrity spousal picks? Did you end up driving a limo AND living in a shack? How many of your infinity children have been born? Are any of you ACTUALLY marine biologists? We'd love to

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01:16:24

Babies With Name Tags

Stoneybrook Reunion: The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club ·

2024/08/14

Wedding bells are ringing for Elizabeth and Watson, but Kristy isn't about to let her bridesmaid duties distract her from a prime business opportunity. Pile into the Pink Clinker and crank that dial to hear us reminisce about friendly neighborhood extraterrestrials and cartoon crushes, and assess the BSC's tactics for minding one million children ahead of Kristy's Big Day. Extra credit reading and viewing list: LuLaRoe documentary Lisa Frank documentary Inside the Rainbow Gulag: The

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