Karen's Newspaper is the 40th book in the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series.
Back Cover Summary[]
When Karen meets an editor at The Stoneybrook News, she gets a great idea. The Three Musketeers can start their own neighborhood newspaper! But Karen's paper won't be filled with boring articles and hard words. It will be written just for kids.
Karen and her friends love being reporters. They print up lots of secrets about the neighbors. But now the neighbors are fuming. And that spells bad news for Karen's paper!
Summary[]
Karen, Hannie, and Nancy write their own newspaper. Unfortunately, they get in trouble for spilling secrets. Then their paper is too boring. Will they ever get it right?
Subplot[]
Andrew will be going to a new preschool in September, but he doesn't want to go. A visit to the school before the year starts gets him excited about going.
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: Lisa Engle, Seth Engle
Kids
- Three Musketeers: Hannie Papadakis, Nancy Dawes
- Bill Korman
- Sari Papadakis (mentioned)
- Timmy Hsu
- Melody Korman
- Maria Kilbourne
Teenagers
- Mary Anne Spier (mentioned)
- Stacey McGill (mentioned)
- Ellen - girl Charlie likes (mentioned)
- Bart Taylor (mentioned)
Adults
- Mrs. Halsey - writer for the Stoneybrook News
- Mr. Papadakis
- Mr. and Mrs. Billing (mentioned)
- Mrs. and Mr. Dawes (mentioned)
Places in this Book[]
- Little House
- Big House
- Papadakis House
- Littlebrook Preschool
Trivia[]
- On the dedication page it says: "For Allison Poulos."
- Pop culture and real life references: Henry and Ribsy (book), Henry and the Paper Route (book)
- Andrew starts Littlebrook Preschool in this book and gets introduced to Ms. Jewel. This will be his school and teacher until the end of the series.
- This book was inspired by the newspaper she made with her friend growing up [1]
- In Chapter 6 Karen refers to her father as Watson instead of Daddy.
- Lawrenceville is going to have a dump near the town.
- The school budget cut increases, Elizabeth thinks that they need a new school board.
- Andrew has a friend named Ryan from his old school.
- Nancy knows the Billings who live in Watson's neighborhood.
- The Brewers have a word processor that Karen and her friends use.
- Articles for their first paper include: The Hsu's grandparents visit, Sari flushed a toy down the toilet, and the Kormans got a new blender. Karen, Hannie, and Nancy add that Mr. Papadakis is going on a diet, Charlie got a 5 dollar bracelet to impress a girl named Ellen, and Mr. Billings lost his job.
- The Hsu's are getting a puppy and Maria won two swimming trophies.
- Maria won nine ribbons at the Game Day event.
- Karen and her friends printed seven issues of their newspaper.
- Some students in Andrew's new pre-school is Sherry Baldwin and Brad Rufus.
- The Stoneybrook News will now have a couple of pages dedicated to content for kids.
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