Baby-sitters Summer Vacation is the second book in the Baby-Sitters Club Super Special series.
Back Cover Summary[]
This summer, the Baby-sitters and a whole bunch of the kids they sit for are going to Camp Mohawk! With the girls as Counselors-in-Training, and the kids as campers, it'll be just like baby-sitting — in the woods!
The Baby-sitters soon discover that camp isn't just nature walks and making lanyards. Dawn gets lost in the wilderness overnight. Kristy learns how to use mascara, and Mary Anne gets caught sneaking over to the boys' side of the camp. Stacey spends the two weeks with poison ivy...and Claudia falls in LUV with a boy CIT.
This is one summer vacation the Baby-sitters will never forget!
Chapter Narrators[]
- Stacey McGill (1, 7, 14, 22)
- Kristy Thomas (2, 9, 15, 21)
- Claudia Kishi (3, 10, 16, 20)
- Jessi Ramsey (4, 23)
- Mary Anne Spier (5, 11, 18)
- Dawn Schafer (6, 13, 17)
- Mallory Pike (8)
- Logan Bruno (12, 19)
Summary[]
Stacey is reuniting with her BSC friends at Camp Mohawk, a summer camp presumably in the Catskill Mountains of New York. All of the BSC members are going, along with several BSC charges. Stacey, Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, Dawn, and Logan are selected to be Councilors In Training (CITs). Jessi and Mallory are regular campers who are given the title of Junior CIT because they coordinate the end of camp show. Stacey decides she wants to write a camp journal/scrapbook of their two week stay and ask all of the club members to keep notes of their time.
Characters[]
Cabin Assignments
6B Cabin
- Barbara - counselor
- Joanne and Stacey McGill - CITs
- Karen Brewer, Nonie, Valerie, and Monique - Campers
7A Cabin
- Logan Bruno, Rick - CITs
- Jackie Rodowsky, Buddy Barrett, Matt Braddock, Curtis, Russell, Thomas - Campers
7A Cabin
- Connie - counselor
- Mary Anne Spier and Randi - CITs
- Margo Pike, Nancy Dawes, Tara - campers
7B Cabin
- Faye and Julie - CITs
8A Cabin
- Lauren and Izzie - CITs
8B Cabin
- Jo - counselor
- Kristy Thomas and Tansy - CITs
- Charlotte Johanssen, Becca Ramsey
9A Cabin
- Meghan - counselor
- Claudia Kishi and Sally - CITs
- Vanessa Pike, Haley Braddock, Leeann, Brandy, Jayme, and Gail - campers
11A Cabin
- Charlene and Debra - counselors
- Dawn Schafer and Amy - CITs
- Heather, Rachel, Shari, Freddie, Donna and Caryn - campers
11B Cabin
- Autumn - counselor
- Gwen and Corrine - CITs
- Mallory Pike, Jessi Ramsey, Mary Travis, Mary Oppenheimer, Mandi, and Maureen - Campers
Other kids
Other Teenagers
- Henry, Jeremy, John, Cliff, and Will Yamakawa - other CITs at the boys game.
- Miko Tyrrell - CIT at the girls game who broke her leg after falling off a horse.
- Bart Taylor - mentioned; Kristy wrote a postcard to him.
Adults
- Maureen McGill
- Edward McGill
- Mrs. Means - director of the girls camp
- Mr. Means - director of the boys camp
- Ms. Dinsmoore - camp doctor
Locations[]
Pop Culture and Real Life References[]
- The Parent Trap, Meatballs (movies)
- Garfield
- Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Anne of Green Gables, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Grey King, Impossible Charlie (books)
- Julie Harris, Faye Dunaway, Doris Day (actresses)
- Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore
- Stephen King books
- Monster Mash (song)
- Annie (musical)
Continuity and Inconsistencies[]
Continuity
- On page 11, Stacey recalls being away from home for two weeks before, alluding to her time as a mother's helper in Boy-Crazy Stacey.
- On page 29, Claudia recalls Mimi's stroke which happened in Claudia and Mean Janine.
- Stacey recalls when Betsy Sobak contributed in breaking Claudia's leg from Claudia and the Bad Joke on page 72.
- Claudia mentions her previous crushes on Trevor Sandbourne and Austin Bentley on page 166.
- On page 199, Logan recalls when he went with Mary Anne to the dance in Logan Likes Mary Anne!.
. Inconsistencies
- Jessi's letter in chapter 4 is addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Alex Ramsey, when in previous books and in future books his name is John Ramsey.
Within the series timeline[]
This book takes place between books #25 and #26 in the regular series. At this point, Stacey has moved back to New York but is reuniting with the BSC at camp. Claudia writes a postcard to her grandmother Mimi Yamamoto, who is still alive but not doing well.
Trivia[]
- A reprint was released July 4, 2023.[1]
- The 2023 reprint updates the camp from Camp Mohawk to Camp Moosehead which was first renamed in the Netflix series.
- On the dedication page it says: "For Jean, Barry, and Bonkie."
- Kristy starts the book with a letter asking if Stacey could be a CIT with them.
- Stacey started the journal and kept it for herself.
- The bus from New York to Camp Mohawk wasn't full.
- The only members of the BSC that has been to camp before is Dawn and Claudia.
- Kristy found the camp when everyone talked about wanting to go. The rest of the clients followed them to the camp.
- Stacey's mom told her to get a body wave perm on her hair.
- In Mary Anne + 2 Many Babies, Mary Anne loves the name Tara for a girl and she has a camper in her cabin named Tara who she doesn't like.
- Dawn hopes she's like Charlene, her camp counselor, when she gets older.
- Shari tells dirty jokes to Dawn's cabin.
- Kristy says that she couldn't find her name in a name book before.
- Mary Anne's note to Logan was the first one she sent that wasn't simple.
- Stacey started reading a Stephen King book in Boy-Crazy Stacey, here Karen brings Stacey her Stephen King book she started reading. This could be the same book.
- Charlene's mother got sick and Debra was sent to replace her. Debra is only fifteen and spent one year as a CIT before becoming a counselor.
- On page 179 Dawn says that she's good at math but not good at reading maps.
- Dawn eats a hot dog on the overnight camping trip but skips the smores.
- Mary Anne lets her campers pierce her ears before they chickened out. Funnily enough, in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap one of the characters does let a camper pierce her ears.
- Mary Anne has been making up beauty treatments to her campers who ask.
- Only two boy have every crossed to the girls side of the camp successfully but got caught by Mrs. Means right away.
- Logan thought Kristy looked terrific in makeup.
- Stacey has also been checking her urine as well.
- Sharon and Richard drove to pick up Mary Anne and Dawn together.
- Kristy starts wearing mascara more in case she runs into Bart.
- Mary Anne will never ever get her ears pierced.