Karen's President is the 106th book in the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series.
Back Cover Summary[]
Karen's family is taking a gigundoly exciting trip – to Washington, D.C.! They will see lots of important sights and special places. Karen is hoping to meet the President of the United States. After all, he lives there! But everyone tells Karen that he is too busy running the country. Is there any way Karen's red-white-and-blue dream can come true?
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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
Kids
- Ms. Colman's Class: Hannie Papadakis, Nancy Dawes, Pamela Harding, Natalie Springer, Ricky Torres, Addie Sidney, Jannie Gilbert, Leslie Morris, Omar Harris, Bobby Gianelli, Hank Reubens, Barkan Twins, Audrey Green
Teenagers
- Brian - friend of Sam's
- Mark - friend of Sam's
Adults
- Ms. Colman
- Marsha Meyers - friend of Elizabeth
- Unnamed tour guide
- President of the United States
Places in this book[]
- Big House
- Stoneybrook Academy
- Train Stations
- Washington D.C.
- The Old Stone House
- Dumbarton Oaks
- The Austin Grill
- Washington Monument
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Roosevelt and Jefferson Memorial
- National Air and Space Museum
- Museum of Natural History
- National Museum of American History
- National Zoo
- The White House
Trivia[]
- The president when this book came out would have been Bill Clinton. But this president was unnamed. This president is married with a nine year old daughter.
- In chapter 1, Karen claims the episode of I Love Lucy was the one where Lucy and Ethel were stomping in barrels of grapes. The episode description matches “Lucy’s Italian Movie’,” but Ethel wasn’t in that scène.
- Continuity: On page 35 Karen recalls Remember from Karen's Pilgrim,
- Real life and pop culture references: Jackie Kennedy and Edith Wilson and Eleanor Roosevelt, various presidents, Mr. Rogers, The Wizard of Oz,
- Inconsistencies:
- Sam is running for class president in this book.
- Kristy is writing a paper about America's first ladies and Charlie is learning how a bill is turned into a law.
- Karen's family takes a train down to Washington D.C.
- Andrew wants to be a fireman when he gets older.
- Karen mentions reading The Gator Girls book, which the ghostwriter Stephanie Calmenson actually did write.
- The class assignment was to decide what they would do if they were President and this is what the kids said: Omar would cut taxes, Addie would make animals citizens, Nancy and Ms. Colman wanted gun control. Karen finally decided that she would declare a national holiday for Presidents' Partners because of all of the good things that First Ladies have done.
- Kristy wears a skirt when she tours the White House.
- Karen has a picture of her shaking hands with the president.
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