Karen's School Bus is the 53rd book in the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series.
Back Cover Summary[]
Karen is going to ride the bus to school now. Hooray! But Karen is so excited about the school bus she gets a tummy ache. And then something awful happens on the bus.
Now all the kids won't stop teasing Karen. They call her mean names. Karen hates the bus! Won't anyone help her?
Summary[]
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
Kids
- Hannie Papadakis
- Nancy Dawes
- Linny Papadakis
- Liddie Yuan
- Edwin (presumably Edwin Farley)
- Hadley Smith
- Bart Cole
Adults
- Ms. Colman
- Ms. Pazden - school nurse
- Mr. Jack Wilson - bus driver
Places in this book[]
- Big House
- Stoneybrook Academy
- Unnamed hardware store (presumably Ted's Tools)
Continuity and Inconsistencies[]
Continuity
- When Audrey pretended to be Karen's twin from Karen's Twin on page 25.
- The circus camp from Karen's Big Top is mentioned on page 53.
Inconsistencies
- The illustration on page 57 shows Watson bald when he's actually supposed to be losing his hair.
Trivia[]
- Liddie Yuan and Edwin, both in Mr. Berger's class at Stoneybrook Academy, ride the same bus as Karen.
- If Hannie and Karen lived one block closer to school they wouldn't have to take the bus.
- Sam takes French at the high school.
- Karen dressed up to ride the bus for the first time.
- Stoneybrook Academy goes up the sixth grade in this book.
- Pop Culture references include: Millions of Cats (book), the Little Mermaid, All Around the Mulberry Bush
- Karen thinks taking attendance is very cool.
- Karen's family gives her two pages of ideas for the fall festival.
- Nancy says that Bobby protected her from the big kids on the bus.
- Stoneybrook Middle School hosted a cake walk last year, which Karen went to so she could teach the class.
- Karen has an umbrella with cats and dogs on them, and she named each of them.
- Cakes donated include: strawberry shortcake (Audrey), chocolate cake (Natalie), brownie cake (Ricky), clown cake (Karen)
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