Get ready for summer reading with a special edition of Kristy's Great Idea ! When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club -- a chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they each love to do -- she has no idea how much the club will change everything. Crank calls, uncontrollable toddlers, wild pets, untruthful clients . . . running a business is hard work! Kristy and her co-founders, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey, are sure they can handle anything. But only if they stick together . . . Ann M. Martin is the creator of The Baby-sitters Club, which has more than 190 million books in print, making it one of the most popular series in the history of publishing. Her novels include A Corner of the Universe (a Newbery Honor Book), Belle Teal , Here Today , A Dog's Life , On Christmas Eve , and the Main Street and Family Tree series, as well as the much-loved collaborations P.S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More , with Paula Danziger. Ann lives in upstate New York.