Karen's Big Move is the 96th book in the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series.
Back Cover Summary[]
Karen is moving to Chicago for six months, with Mommy, Andrew, and Seth. Karen wants to be with her little-house family. But leaving her big-house family will be hard. And Karen will miss her friends and her school a lot too. She will try her best to like Chicago. But what if she misses Stoneybrook too much?
Summary[]
Karen’s little-house family moves to Chicago because Seth has a job offer. They’ll be there for six months. Watson and Lisa have already decided that Andrew will go to Chicago, but they let Karen decide for herself what she wants to do. Since she promised Andrew that they’d stay together, she reluctantly moves to Chicago as well. But she gets homesick and moves back to Stoneybrook.
Characters in this book[]
Karen's Family
- Karen Brewer
- Andrew Brewer
- Big House - Watson Brewer, Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer, Charlie Thomas, Sam Thomas, Kristy Thomas, David Michael Thomas, Emily Michelle Brewer, Nannie
- Little House - Seth Engle, Lisa Engle
Kids
- Ms. Colman's Class: Hannie Papadakis,Nancy Dawes, Addie Sidney, Bobby Gianelli, Pamela Harding, Natalie Springer, Ricky Torres
- Jillian - the girl whose room Karen is using in Chicago
Adults
- Ms. Colman
- Waitress at the restaurant
Places in this book[]
- Big House
- Little House
- Stoneybrook Academy
- Chicago
Trivia[]
- Continuity: On page 18, Karen mentions the cities project from Karen's Promise.
- Pop culture and real life references: Black Beauty (book).
- This is the first introduction of Scout in the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series; the Brewer/Thomas family recently adopted her in Kristy Thomas, Dog Trainer.
- Nannie has been to Chicago before to tell Karen about it.
- When playing the license plate game Andrew and Karen found plates for 40 U.S. states.
- There are two going away parties in this book; one with Karen's class and another at home.
- Lisa and Seth rent out their house while they are gone.
- Karen never starts at her new school. She only stayed in Chicago for about a week before she moved back to Stoneybrook.
- Ms. Colman's class is learning about working animals and Kristy visits with Scout.
- Inconsistencies: Karen acts like she’s never been to Chicago before, but in Baby-sitters on Board!, Karen says that Watson once took her and Andrew to Chicago.
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