Aloha, Baby-sitters! is the thirteenth book in the Baby-Sitters Club Super Special series.
Back Cover Summary[]
It's the coolest school trip ever: a week in Hawaii! Almost all of the BSC members are going, including Logan.
Since Mal can't go to Hawaii, the Baby-sitters resolve to bring Hawaii home to her, taking photos and making notes of everything they see, eat, and do. Some of their adventures get pretty wild, too. Abby acts in a commercial, Dawn rescues a wrecked beach, and Stacey takes a dangerous helicopter ride she'll never forget.
If only the Baby-sitters could stay in Hawaii! Too bad aloha means hello...and good-bye.
Plot[]
Chapter Narrators[]
- Jessi Ramsey (Prologue, 4, 22)
- Kristy Thomas (1, 9)
- Abby Stevenson (2, 7, 10)
- Mary Anne Spier (3, 13, 18)
- Mallory Pike (5, 17)
- Claudia Kishi (6, 12, 19)
- Dawn Schafer (8, 14, 20)
- Stacey McGill (11, 16, 21)
- Robert Brewster (15)
- Logan Bruno (23)
Hawaii Plots[]
Stacey gets into a helicopter accident and on their way back to the road, she collaspses because of low blood sugar.
Dawn cleans up a local beach with some kids.
Abby gets a part in a tv commercial for sunscreen, but because she didn't put any on gets sunburned.
Claudia visits Pearl Harbor and feels guilty about what happened. After she baby-sits some local kids she meets someone who survived the attack and talks about she shouldn't feel that way.
Mary Anne and Logan are experimenting with together but independent so they don't hang out that much. She baby-sits a local family for a little bit.
Jessi chronicles everything to put together a scrapbook for Mallory.
Stoneybrook Plots[]
Mrs. Stone hosts a farm camp, which Mallory and Kristy help at. Also Mallory deals with a parent who didn't believe that Mrs. Prezzioso told her to just let Jenny have her temper tantrums.
Characters[]
Hawaii Trip Attendees[]
- Jessi Ramsey, Abby Stevenson, Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, Dawn Schafer, Stacey McGill, Robert Brewster, Logan Bruno, Alan Gray, Pete Black, Austin Bentley, Sue Archer, Mari Drabek, Renee Johnson, Bea Foster, Trevor Sandbourne
- Chaperones: Howard Kingbridge, Mrs. Hall, Mr. De Young, Ms. Bernhardt, Mrs. Gonzalez, Mr. Wong,
- Other adults: Mr. Yap, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Federicks (guides), Kaiulani Flores (director), various tourists, Mr. & Mrs. Reynolds (resort owner), Mr. & Mrs Harbison,
- Kids: Evie, Nikki, and Joseph Harbison. Lani, Scott, and Raymond Reynolds. Unnamed kids that helped clean the beach.
Farm Camp Participants[]
- Kristy Thomas, Mallory Pike, Karen Brewer, Tia Farrell, Linny Papadakis, Hannie Papadakis, Patsy Kuhn, Laurel Kuhn
- Other Kids: Jenny Prezzioso, Colin & Isabella Wellfleet
- Adults: Madeleine Prezzioso, Margaret Wellfleet, Mrs. Stone,
Locations[]
General
- Stevenson House
- Stoneybrook Middle School - just the school parking lot
- Kishi House
- JFK Airport
Hawaii
Stoneybrook
- Prezzioso House
- Park
- Stone Farm
Pop Culture and Real Life References[]
- Blue Hawaii by Elvis Presley
- Hawaii Five-O, Magnum P.I., Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, X-Files (TV shows)
- Mufasa from The Lion King
- Don Ho
- Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Terminator
- Jean-Claude Van Damme, Winona Ryder, Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn, Tom Selleck (actors)
- The Plaza Hotel
- A Fence Away From Freedom by Ellen Levine, Mossflower (books)
- Ralph Lauren
- Oliver Twist
- Home Alone 2, Miracle on 34 Street, The Wizard of Oz (movies)
- The Oscars
- Steven Spielberg
- The Grateful Dead
- The California Angels
Continuity and Inconsistencies[]
Continuity
- This book takes place after Dawn and Too Many Sitters. Although Dawn has moved to California, she is home in Stoneybrook for the summer and goes on the SMS Hawaii trip. The some events of the book are brought up on page 3.
- Claudia over packs which happened in Stacey's Mistake and Claudia and the World's Cutest Baby.
- Mary Anne recalls going to California to visit Dawn on page 38, which happened in California Girls!.
- Stacey's dislike of barf is brought up again on page 154.
Inconsistencies
- On page 46 Dawn ate a couple of Claudia's Doritos.
- On pages 89 and 88, Dawn says she felt a guilty about agreeing to go to Hawaii and that she thought "no way" when the idea for the Hawaii trip came. In the Dawn and Too Many Sitters, Dawn said that she'd go back out west in an instant.
- On page 133 that the police had been called to look for the missing boy and were already there, talking to his father. Later on page 135, when Mary Anne comes back to the lobby with the missing boy, the hotel owner meets her and tells her he's just called the police, and then narrates about them arriving.
- Abby says that SMS doesn't have a volleyball team, yet Logan plays on the volleyball team in Logan's Story.
Trivia[]
- Some of the events in this book happen concurrently with the events of Little Sister #75 Karen's County Fair, since the books were published in the same month.
- Claudia didn’t know that Hawaii used to be its own country.
- Mary Anne has German and Norwegian in her blood.
- Hawaii is the farthest Jessi travels until the events of Baby-sitters' European Vacation.
- Mallory can't go to Hawaii because of how expensive it is and she already told Mrs. Stone she'd work for her. Kristy can't go because she's going with her family the next month.
- Shannon is away at summer camp.
- Mary Anne and Logan are experimenting with Together but Independent.
- Abby lies about being 18 to be on a TV commercial for sunscreen.
- The woman who Mallory has a problem with ends up calling the BSC.
- Dawn used to have carsickness when she was young girl.
- Abby uses Coppertone sun screen.
- Robert starts acting distant from Stacey hinting their break up in Stacey's Broken Heart.
- The faculty lounge at SMS gets messy easily.
- This it the first time Robert Brewster is on a cover until Stacey's Ex-Boyfriend.
- Dawn threatened to boycott the luau because of the roasted pig.
- Jessi took 13 rolls of photos.