Karen's Swim Meet is the 110th book in the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series.
Back Cover Summary[]
Karen has joined the swim team! She loves dreaming about winning medals and learning to swim fast. But mostly she likes to have fun with her swim team friends. Then the coach starts acting mean. He says the team is not working hard enough. Can Karen find a way to be a winner and have fun too?
Summary[]
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
- Three Musketeers: Hannie Papadakis, Nancy Dawes, Karen Brewer
- Terri Barkan
- Tammy Barkan (mentioned)
- Jenna - girl on swim team
- Kristin
Adults
- Ms. Dawes (mentioned)
- Mrs. Barkan (mentioned)
- Ron Carson
- Mrs. Korman (mentioned)
- Mr. Barkan
- Mrs. Barton - program director
Places in this book[]
- Big House
- Stoneybrook Community Center
- Korman Family pool
Trivia[]
- Continuity: On page 47, Karen recalls helping Nannie with the baking contest from Karen's Cooking Contest.
- Inconsistencies: Emily Michelle learns how to swim in this book, however, she's been swimming in Karen's Island Adventure.
- Pop culture and real life references: Half Magic (book), Little Toot, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- The swim team competed against Howard Township and Rockville, two nearby towns and lost both meets.
- Hannie is staying at a cabin in the mountains until July.
- This is the first time we see the Barkan twins separated, Tammy is taking tennis lessons.
- Karen had not spent much time with Terri outside of school before.
- Karen learns how to dive off a block and do a flip turn.
- Mrs. Barton is the program director at the community center.
- Mrs. Papadakis taught Hannie all her strokes.
Gallery[]
1999 original cover
1999 back cover