Baby-sitters' European Vacation

Baby-sitters' European Vacation
series	Super Special
no. in series	15
Author	Ann M. Martin, Peter Lerangis
Cover Art	Hodges Soileau (cover) Angelo Tillery (interior)
Tagline	Look out, London — Prepare yourself, Paris — The BSC is headed your way!
Publication information
Published on	July 1998
Publisher	Scholastic, Inc.
ISBN	0590060007
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Baby-sitters' European Vacation is the fifteenth book in the Baby-Sitters Club Super Special series.

Back Cover Summary

The BSC is going global! Kristy, Stacey, Abby, Jessi, and Mallory have signed up for their best school trip yet: a week in London and Paris!

Stacey can't wait to shop and museum-hop. Jessi's excited about a special dance performance. Abby's dying to visit the BSC's little princess, Victoria Kent. Mal's looking forward to meeting her distant cousins. And Kristy finds love...when she least expects it.

This time, the Baby-sitters are going to have plenty to write home about.

Chapter Narrators

• Jessi Ramsey (Prologue, 1, 9, 17)
• Abby Stevenson (2, 10, 15, 22)
• Stacey McGill (3, 7, 18)
• Kristy Thomas (4, 14, 19, 23)
• Claudia Kishi (5, 16)
• Mallory Pike (6, 13, 21)
• Mary Anne Spier (8, 20)
• Robert Brewster (11)
• Dawn Schafer (12)

Characters

Europe Trip

• Student Travelers: Jessi Ramsey, Mallory Pike, Stacey McGill, Kristy Thomas, Abby Stevenson, Alan Gray, Robert Brewster, Jacqui Grant, Kathleen Lopez, Kara Mauricio, Pete Black
  • Students from Zehava Berger Junior High: Michel DuMoulin, Shoshana, Frances, Darcy Boynton, Katheryn Giberson
• Other teens: Tanisha, Toni, Clarissa Jones, (dancers),
• Adults: Maureen McGill, Mr. Dougherty, Ms. Post & Mr. VaVigne (guides), David Brailsford, Miss Rutherford, Mr. Anderson
• Kids: Victoria Kent

SES playground CITs

• Counselors: Claudia Kishi, Mary Anne Spier, Dawn Schafer, Logan Bruno, Bruce Schermerhorn, Jerry Michaels, Janine Kishi, Cokie Mason
• Adults: Ms. Garcia, Lila Schwartz (counselor at the Sunshine Day Camp),
• Playground Camp Kids: Melody Korman, Suzi and Buddy Barrett/Lindsey and Taylor DeWitt, Arnold Twins, Linny Papadakis, Jake Kuhn, Mathew Hobart
• Other Kids: Susan Felder

Pop Culture and Real Life References

• Elvis
• The Queen of England
• Sherlock Holmes
• Charles Dickens, Judy Blume, Judith Voirst, Virginia Woolf (authors)
• Fawlty Tower
• Holiday Inn
• Parenting Magazine
• The New York Mets
• Jekyll & Hyde
• Romeo & Juliet
• The Wizard of Oz

Continuity and Inconsistencies

Continuity

• Jessi mentions her month long dance troupe from Jessi's Big Break.
• Stacey mentions her breakup from Robert in Stacey's Broken Heart and his depression from Stacey's Ex-Boyfriend on page 29. She also mentions her friendship with Jacqui and the others falling apart from Stacey and the Bad Girls on page 31.
• Dawn brings up her spending time with Whitney Cater from Dawn and Whitney, Friends Forever on page 123.

Inconsistencies

• On page 65, Mrs. Pike's maiden name is Bennett. However, on the family tree on the next page, the family name is Hartigan.
• You can't catch the train to Paris from Victoria station.
• When Disneyland Paris first opened, it was called EuroDisney, but starting in October 1st, 1994, it was called Disneyland Paris.
• Jessi says she's never been out of the country before, but in Jessi's Secret Language, she mentions that her family has been on vacation to Mexico.
• When Mallory finds out she's related to William Shakespeare, she refers to him as her great times seventeen grandfather. However, it's impossible for that to be the case as Shakespeare has no living direct descendants.

Trivia

• Dawn says that she's been to France before and Stacey has been to Ireland.
• Abby has tried champagne before.
• This is the last appearance of Jerry Michaels and Victoria Kent in the series.
• This is the second and final appearance of Susan Felder in the series.
• Mallory meets her extended family in this book.
• Mr. Dougherty keeps wandering off to where the students start complaining about it.
• Kristy claims she's related to Wally Pip, a famous baseball player. If she's being honest, it's unclear which side of the family she's related to him on. But she could’ve been lying.
• The title of Mallory's book is "If Life Is a Barrel of Monkeys, I Must Be a Banana" before thinking of a new plot.
• Abby did not get to meet the Queen but she did step on the foot of one of the princes.
• This is the first time Maureen has been to Paris since college, which she first mentioned in Stacey and the Mystery at the Empty House.
• Despite not being seen, all of the Barrett/DeWitt kids attended the camp.

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