Karen's Tattletale is the 61st book in the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series.
Back Cover Summary[]
Karen's brother is very upset. Someone in his preschool tattled on him. Karen teases Andrew about it. So Andrew starts tattling, too — on Karen.
But Andrew's tattling goes too far. And now Karen is in big trouble.
Summary[]
Karen scoffs at her little brother Andrew's problem with Luke, a tattling classmate, and Andrew tattles on her for every little thing. One day he lets Midgie out and gets Karen in trouble, but when Karen tells Lisa and Seth that she didn't put Midgie in danger, they don't believe her. As punishment for leaving the front door open too many times, she is not allowed to sing her solo in the jamboree, but on the day before Jamboree Night, Mr. Drucker's lawn is ruined, and he thinks Andrew's toy tractor left tracks on it, but Karen sticks up for her little brother and tells Mr. Drucker that a garbage truck ruined his lawn. Mr. Drucker believes her and apologizes to Andrew. Andrew tells Lisa the truth - he left the door open because he ran back outside to look for his best dinosaur. He apologizes to Karen and she forgives him, and their mother and stepfather punish him for a week. Lisa also apologizes to Karen for not believing her.
Characters in this book[]
Karen's Family
- Karen Brewer
- Andrew Brewer
- Little House - Seth Engle, Lisa Engle
Kids
- Ms. Colman's Class: Jannie Gilbert, Chris Lamar, Hannie Papadakis,Nancy Dawes, Leslie Morris, Pamela Harding, Ricky Torres, Natalie Springer, Terri Barkan, Tammy Barkan, Addie Sidney, Bobby Gianelli, Hank Reubens, Audrey Green,
- Alicia Gianelli
- Kathryn Barnes
- Willie Barnes
- Luke - student in Andrew's class (mentioned)
- David Michael Thomas (mentioned)
- Liddie Yuan (mentioned)
- Jack Bahadurian - student who shares the nurse role with Karen
Adults
- Ms. Colman
- Ms. Jewel
- Mrs. Hoffman (mentioned)
- Mrs. Noonan
- Mrs. Titus
- Mr. Posner
Places in this book[]
- Little House
- Stoneybrook Academy
Trivia[]
- Pop Culture and Real Life References include: The Wizard of Oz and it's songs, Rice Krispies,
- Inconsistencies include: The school is celebrating it's 25 anniversary but in Karen's Treasure the schools been around since at least 1935.
- Continuity: Karen remembers when David Michael was in a school production of The Wizard of Oz from Karen's Two Families.
- The dedication page says, "For Hannah Vera Natasha Janette a very special baby."
- Karen helps Jannie even though they aren't really friends.
- For switch day Karen is the school nurse, Nancy is a teachers aid in the kindergarten room, Pamela became Ms. Colman, Bobby is a lunchroom monitor, and Hannie is a cafeteria worker.
- Nancy, Bobby, Ricky, and Audrey signed up for the science fair.
- Books mentioned include: Imani's Gift at Kwanzaa.
- Karen and Nancy don't know how to double dutch rope.
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