Karen's Dinosaur is the 73rd book in the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series.
Back Cover Summary[]
Karen is thrilled. Her class is going to New York City! She can't wait to see her pen pal, Maxie, and have a picnic in the park. But best of all, Karen's and Maxie's classes are going to the museum — to see dinosaur bones!
Then Karen gets in a fight with her stepbrother. David Michael is mad because he can't go see the dinosaurs. Is David Michael going to ruin Karen's trip?
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Characters in this book[]
Karen's Family
- Karen Brewer
- Andrew Brewer
- Big House - Watson Brewer, Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer, Charlie Thomas, Sam Thomas, Kristy Thomas, David Michael Thomas, Emily Michelle Brewer, Nannie
- Little House - Lisa Engle, Seth Engle
Kids
- Ms. Colman's Class: Nancy Dawes, Hannie Papadakis, Ricky Torres, Natalie Springer, Terri Barkan, Tammy Barkan, Sara Ford, Addie Sidney, Pamela Harding, Leslie Morris, Jannie Gilbert, Omar Harris, Bobby Gianelli, Audrey Green, Hank Reubens, Ian Johnson, Chris Lamar
- Maxie Medvin
- Jamal - new student in Ms. Mendel's class (mentioned)
- Eli - Nancy's pen pal
- Jen - Hannie's pen pal
Adults
- Mrs. Hoffman
- Ms. Colman (mentioned)
- Miss Mandel - Teacher in New York City
- Mrs. Sidney - room parent
- Mr. Ford - room parent
- Mr. Dawes - room parent
- Mr. Winter - room parent from Miss Mandel's class
- Mrs. Papadakis
Places in this book[]
- Big House
- Park West School
- American Museum of Natural History
- Central Park
Continuity and Inconsistencies[]
Continuity
- On page 5 Karen mentions that she used to be afraid of the big kids on the bus, which happened in Karen's School Bus
- On page 6 Karen mentions that she used to hate Mrs. Hoffman, which started in Karen's New Teacher.
- On page 15, it's narrated the class has pen pals in New York from Karen's Pen Pal.
- Karen's trip to New York with her little house family from Karen's Big Weekend is mentioned on page 23.
- On page 42 David Michael mentions the pony from Karen's Pony, how she became pizza queen from Karen's Pizza Party, got her bike in Karen's New Bike
Trivia[]
- On the dedication page it says "this book is for Nora Godwin Allen."
- Pop culture and real life references include: Stuart Little, Alice in Wonderland,
- This is the last little sister book written by Ann M. Martin before ghost writers took over.
- Ms. Colman has not be her teacher since having a baby in Karen's Big Sister.
- Four kids in Karen's class stay after school for clubs and nine people buy lunch in the cafeteria.
- Ian and Jannie still have to turn in worksheets, which are turned in.
- Stoneybrook Elementary and Stoneybrook Academy do not share the same bus stop and are down the street from each other.
- Natalie takes attendance in chapter 2.
- Since Addie joined late she doesn't have a pen pal, this is resolved when Mrs. Mandel's class gets a new student named Jamel.
- Karen narrates about her family in chapter 4, this is one of the few books that does this.
- Karen says that she tries to eat healthy foods.
- Charlie gave Karen a Stoneybrook High School t-shirt.
- The class goes to the museum on a charter bus.
- Room parents include: Mrs. Sidney, Mr. Ford, and Mr. Dawes.
- Nancy is partners with Audrey and Karen partners with Hannie until they get to New York.
- Maxie's school is called Park West School.
- Mr. Winter is a room parent in New York.
- Karen did not tell her family about getting lost or going to the gift shop.
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