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Mary Anne and Miss Priss is the 73rd book in The Baby-Sitters Club series.

Back Cover Summary[]

Jenny Prezzioso is the fussiest kid the Baby-sitters know. Lately though she's really gone overboard. Her hair is always perfect, she only wears frilly dresses, and she won't do anything that makes her dirty. Jenny is driving the Baby-sitters crazy!

When the Pikes start a kickball team, Mary Anne wants Jenny to join. But there's no way she's going to play. And no one wants Miss Priss on their team, anyway. What will the Baby-sitters do with a kid who's too perfect?

Summary[]

Subplot[]

Characters[]

Mary Anne's Family

BSC Members

Kids

Kids


Adults

  • Madeleine and Nick Prezzioso
  • Joan - woman at the Tip-Top Talent Agency
    • Libby - her secretary
  • Various parents auditioning
  • Robert Gautier - photographer
  • Carolyn DeVries - Karbergers talent agent
  • Madge - woman in charge of wardrobe
  • Dixie - assistant director
  • Sam - photographer

Locations[]

  • Pike House
  • Prezzioso House
  • Kishi House
  • Spier/Schafer House
  • Tip-Top Talent Agency - talent agency in Stamford
  • Robert Gautier's studio
  • Karbergers department store in Hartford
  • Brenner Field
  • Bostwicks - a huge clothing store near Stamford

Pop Culture & Real-Life References[]

  • Peanuts comic strip
  • Cinderella
  • The Magic School Bus

Continuity and Inconsistencies[]

Continuity

Inconsistencies

  • In chapter one Nicky is said to be nine instead of eight.

Ann M. Martin's Dear Reader Letter[]

Dear Reader,

In Mary Anne and Miss Priss, Andrea Prezzioso becomes a baby model. The closest I ever came to doing any modeling was in front of my father’s home movie camera when I was three years old. One rainy day, my parents came up with an indoor activity, which was a pretend fashion show. Mom dressed me in outfit after outfit, and Dad filmed the “fashion show” in our living room.

My father loved taking home movies. And so did his parents and my mother’s parents. We have home movies dating back to the 1920s. Even my parents’ wedding is captured on film. My father filmed family vacations and birthday parties from the time I was born until my sister and I were in college. A favorite family activity when I was growing up was Movie Night, when we would watch movies of ourselves from when we were younger. Now I’m 41, and I haven’t seen the home movies in years. But I still have fond memories of them — especially my fashion show.

Trivia[]

  • Astrid, Shannon's dog, is pregnant again.
  • Kristy says the triplets are probably too old for a baby-sitter.
  • Logan comes to a meeting
  • Jenny’s mother has taught her never to open the door until she knows who is outside.
  • Richard still has his textbooks from college.
  • Mary Anne thinks Jenny has OCD at first.
  • Mrs. Pike tried to make a rule that Pow was to stay outside as much as possible, but the kids didn’t always enforce it.
  • Jessi says Mrs. Prezzioso seems like the perfect stage mother
  • The money Jenny and Andrea make from these commercials will go directly into their college fund.
  • Mary Anne has a fifteen minute time limit on long-distance phone calls.
  • Shannon is a stickler for rules
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Portrait Collection
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Other
The Baby-Sitters Club Notebook (1987) | The Baby-Sitters Club Postcard Book (1991) | Trivia & Puzzle Fun Book (1992) | Ann M. Martin: The Story of the author of the Baby-sitters Club (1993) | The Baby-Sitters Club Guide to Babysitting (1993) | The Baby-Sitters Club Chain Letter (1993) | The Baby-Sitters Club Secret Santa (1994) | Audio Books on Cassette Tape (1994-5) | BSC Movie Novelization (1995) | The Complete Guide to the Baby-Sitters Club (1996) | Autograph Book (1998) | BSC Graphic Novels (2006-present) | We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers (2021) | Welcome to Stoneybrook: A Guided Journal (2021) | The Official Coloring Book (2023)
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