Snowbound is the seventh book in the Baby-Sitters Club Super Special series.
Back Cover Summary[]
The weather forecasters keep promising snow, but what a joke that is. Not a single flake has fallen on Stoneybrook this winter. How can SMS hold a Winter Wonderland Dance when it's warm enough to go to the beach?
Finally it does snow – like crazy – and no one's prepared. Jessi gets stranded overnight at her dance school. Mallory and Mary Anne are snowed in with the Pike kids. But Stacey's in real trouble. She and her mom were driving back from the mall when the blizzard hit. And none of the Baby-sitters have heard from her yet.
First they couldn't wait for it to snow. Now they can't wait for it to stop. Where could Stacey be?
Chapter Narrators[]
- Kristy Thomas (Prologue, 1, 6, 11, 21, Epilogue)
- Claudia Kishi (2, 12, 18)
- Dawn Schafer (3, 9, 15, 22)
- Mallory Pike (4, 17)
- Stacey McGill (5, 10, 16, 23)
- Jessi Ramsey (7, 13, 19)
- Mary Anne Spier (8, 14, 20)
Summary[]
Characters[]
This is list is broken down by the characters that appear in each BSC members story arc.
- Pike Family
- Spier/Schafer Family
- Sombergs and Wiley’s – Dee and John Pike’s friends that live in New York City
- Natalie Barrett (mentioned)
- Braddock Family (mentioned)
- Brewer/Thomas Family
- Bart Taylor
- Marian Tan – editor of the Stoneybrook News
- Nancy Dawes (mentioned)
- Iri Mitsuhashi – Claudia’s date to the Winter Wonderland Dance
- Perkins Family
- Rioko Kishi
- Jamie Newton (mentioned)
- Price Irving – Dawn’s date to the Winter Wonderland Dance
- Jeff Schafer
- Oliver – Jeff’s friend (mentioned)
- Bahadurian Family (mentioned)
- Carter and his family - little boy who woke her up in the middle of the night
- Maureen McGill
- Joyce – Stacey’s hair stylist
- Austin Bentley (mentioned)
- Schiavone Family
Locations[]
- Stamford Ballet School
- Airport
- Pike House
- Perkins House
- Kishi House
- Washington Mall
- Schafer/Spier House
- Schiavone Family Home
- Stoneybrook Middle School
Pop Culture and Real Life References[]
- Katy and the Big Snow
- Uncle Buck (movie)
- Manfred Mann’s Doo Wah Diddy Diddy (song)
- Reader’s Digest magazine
- Triple A
- Phantom of the Opera
- Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
- Back to the Future
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Nutcracker and Swan Lake (ballets)
- A Night Before Christmas
- I Love Lucy
Continuity and Inconsistencies[]
Continuity
- A minor subplot over the course of this book is David Michael's rat-napping of Emily Junior, Karen Brewer's rat. The book Karen's Mystery (Little Sister Super Special #3) takes place at the same time and goes into more detail about this plot point.
- There are references to Karen's Haircut on page 46, Stacey's Emergency on page 48, and New York, New York! on page 64. According to this, New York, New York! takes place over the summer.
- Mary Anne’s reading glasses are mentioned in chapter 17.
Inconsistencies
- The article on the first page says that Stoneybrook got 23 inches of snow, however on page four, it’s mentioned to get 28 inches of snow.
- In chapter 5, Stacey says she’d have to settle on going to Gloriana’s if the roads were too snowy for Maureen to drive her to Washington Mall. But in other books, Stoneybrook has buses that go to the mall.
Trivia[]
- This book takes place between books #49 and #50 in the regular series.
- The Winter Wonderland Dance dates are as follows
- Kristy - Bart Taylor
- Claudia - Iri Mitsuhashi
- Mary Anne - Logan Bruno
- Stacey - Austin Bentley
- Dawn - Price Irving
- Mallory - Ben Hobart
- Jessi - Quint Walter
- Kristy calls Bart her boyfriend in this book. It also shows that she owns and knows how to put on make-up.
- Mr. Wozneski owns a coffee shop across the street from Jessi’s ballet school.
- Carter is a little boy that woke up Dawn in the middle of the night in chapter 22.
- Jessi mentions the Valentine's Dance which is shown in Stacey's Ex-Best Friend.
- Dawn hears Sharon say a word (presumably a bad word) that she's previously only heard in movies that she [Dawn] watches without Sharon's knowledge.
- In chapter 16, Stacey starts getting hungry. She feels a little better after she eats her snacks, which suggests she had hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). After she and Maureen are rescued in chapter 23, she gives herself insulin. If Stacey had hypoglycemia, insulin would’ve made her blood sugar lower and it likely would’ve made her feel worse.
- Mallory says her vision is bad, even when she’s wearing her glasses.
- Margo won’t eat Japanese food.