Every year Stoneybrook Middle School (the whole school!) gets invited to Leicester Lodge in Vermont for a week of winter adventure!
This trip sure isn't like any other! A busload of little kids unexpectedly needs baby-sitters. Mary Anne uncovers a ghost in the lodge. Claudia and Stacey both fall in love with handsome French skiers. Kristy is helping her team win the Winter War...while California Dawn can barely stand up in her skates. And if it doesn't stop snowing, SMS may be snowbound until spring!
Summary[]
All of Stoneybrook Middle School takes an annual trip to Leicester Lodge in Hooksett Crossing, Vermont. This annual trip coincides with the school's Winter War. Other schools make the trip to Leicester Lodge in harrowing weather conditions. One such school is Conway Cove Elementary School from Maine. The bus carrying the Conway Cove students overturns near the lodge and injures their chaperones. The Baby-Sitters Club intercedes and takes care of the sixteen students. Logan is unable to make the trip because it coincides with a family trip to Aruba, so Mary Anne decides to create a diary/journal of their trip.
Singin in the Rain, Chains of Love, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, Doe a Deer (songs)
Shakespeare
Swan Lake (ballet)
Continuity and Inconsistencies[]
Continuity
On page 9, Mary Anne narrates the time the BSC went to camp from Baby-sitters' Summer Vacation. This book is mentioned various times throughout the novel.
Stoneybrook Middle School has been hosting this trip for years and Kristy, Claudia, and Mary Anne have been before.
Tigger hides toys behind the refrigerator.
Stacey has been on an overnight trip for school in the seventh grade.
Mary Anne keeps a journal of everyone's experiences for Logan who is on vacation with his family.
Three other groups of kids are at the Lodge along with SMS; a junior high from northern Vermont, seventh and eighth graders from New Hampshire, and sixteen students from Conway Cove Elementary School from Maine.
The kids from the elementary school are winners of a readathon, they won the trip.
The dorms are arranged by grade.
Dawn and Mary Anne claimed a bunk bed together, so they can practice being roommates if their parents get married.
The BSC has a reputation among the SMS teachers as being great with kids.
The BSC passed on being paid to watch the kids from Conway Elementary School.
Dawn snores.
Pinky read 62 books in the readathon.
Dawns dad had taken her to Vail, Colorado before.
Mary Anne is a firm believer in dentures and doesn't like seeing adults toothless.
Ms. Halliday is engaged and tells Mary Anne that they haven't been separated much. She says that she admires Mary Anne for trying her hardest.
Claudia is the one that thinks up the prizes for the Conway students' snowman building contest.
Claudia is a better skier then Kristy.
On page 164 when Mary Anne lists things that she'd worry about getting a long distance phone call about, she lists a house fire which eventually happens in another book.
Kristy says that the winner of the ice sculpture contest would win a certificate for a free pizza at the pizza pan, back in Stoneybrook. In the Complete Guide, the pizza pan is not mentioned, nor is it mentioned anywhere else. This happens frequently post Kristy's Worst Idea, since the guide doesn't cover those books. This is one of the few places that are not in the guide before Kristy's Worst Idea.
This is both Jessi and Mallory's first school dance.
Gallery[]
UK cover
Ad from book 29 for this book and its included postcard
Postcard found in earlier printings of this book
Ad from Sleepover Friends the Great Kate with the title Baby-sitters' Winter Carnival