Farewell, Dawn

Farewell, Dawn
series	The Baby-Sitters Club
no. in series	88
Author	Ann M. Martin, Suzanne Weyn
Cover Art	Hodges Soileau
Tagline	This time it's for good.
Publication information
Published on	August 1995
Publisher	Scholastic
ISBN	0590228722 (original) 0590947877 (reprint) 1570423466 (Audio Cassette)
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Farewell, Dawn is the 88th book in The Baby-Sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin.

Back Cover Summary

Dawn's been missing California more than ever. Especially now that her friend in California needs her. Dawn must face the facts: while she loves Connecticut, her heart is telling her to return to California permanently.

But it sure isn't easy. It is tough to hear her friends talk about replacing her in the BSC. Even worse, Dawn can't figure out how to break the news to Mary Anne. How can she tell her best friend and stepsister that she wants to leave — forever?

Ann M. Martin's Dear Reader Letter

Dear Reader:

Throughout the Baby-sitters Club series, Dawn has gone back and forth (literally and emotionally) between her West Coast family and her East Coast family. She's been pulled in opposite directions for a long time and has important ties to each coast. She's even moved back to California briefly, and then returned to Stoneybrook. Finally my editors and I decided that Dawn needed to make a choice and stick to it. And we felt that Dawn would choose California. This was a difficult decision, but once it had been made, we realized that it created an opportunity for new things to happen in the Baby-sitters Club. We decided to replace Dawn with a brand-new member of the BSC, who would be as important to the series as any of the other characters. That's how Abby was created. Furthermore, we decided to give Dawn her very own series, set on the West Coast. That's how California Diaries began. All in all, we felt that the decision to take Dawn out of Stoneybrook turned out to be a happy one, with many exciting things in store for the characters and the series.

Trivia

• This is the last book published with the original cover style. Starting with book #89, all new books were published in a new style with character photos on the left side of the cover.

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