Part of The Baby-Sitters Club, book 67
First published 1993
Dawn Schafer drops shocking news on her fellow Baby-sitters Club members. She wants to move back to California, leaving Stoneybrook and her friends behind. The other babysitters refuse to accept her decision. They cannot imagine their group without Dawn or understand why she would abandon them. Dawn faces the difficult choice between two places she calls home. Her announcement creates upheaval in the close-knit group of friends who have shared so many adventures together. The story explores the pain of leaving and being left behind as Dawn wrestles with her conflicting loyalties to family and friends.
Genres: family-life, friendship, contemporary, adolescence, young-adult
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, leaving-home
Setting: California, Stoneybrook
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
147 pages · Paperback · Apple