Karen's Telephone Trouble is the 86th book in the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series.
Back Cover Summary[]
Karen loves to talk on the phone. But Karen's family is mad. Karen is tying up the line. And she forgets to take messages. So Daddy makes phone rules for Karen.
But Karen sneaks phone calls anyway. And soon she is in a huge mess.
Summary[]
Karen gets in trouble for her constant telephone use, but she saves the day by calling 911 when Kristy cuts her hand and goes into shock.
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
- Hannie Papadakis
- Linny Papadakis (mentioned)
- Melody Korman
- Ms. Colman's Class mentioned: Nancy Dawes, Barkan Twins, Bobby Gianelli, Addie Sidney, Ricky Torres, Natalie Springer Pamela Harding
Teenagers
- Stacey McGill (mentioned)
- Robert - Sam's friend (mentioned)
Adults
- Mr. Venta - mailman
- Mr. Papadakis
- Mrs. Papadakis (mentioned)
Places in this book[]
- Big House
- Fancy Footwear - shoe store
- Stoneybrook General Hospital (mentioned)
- Stoneybrook Public Library
Trivia[]
- The Arnold Family is mentioned in this book, Stacey had given her job to Kristy.
- The Brewer/Thomas family uses Connecticut Bell as their phone provider in this book.
- Karen, Hannie, and Nancy have different astrological signs since Karen calls the horoscope line three times to get their daily horoscopes.
- Pop culture and real life references: Disney World and The Academy Awards.
- Continuity: Karen was interested in astrology in Karen's Toothache.
- Kristy took a last minute sitting job with the Kormans.
- Pamela calls Karen about the joke that she had spread around, they had a long conversation that afternoon.
- Watson usually gets the mail first, then Nannie, and sometimes nobody looks at it until after dinner.
- Karen's bill ran up to forty-four dollars and eighty five cents.
- Hannie says that she is not a good actress.
- One of the books Karen reads to Emily is Dinner at the Panda Palace, which is written by the ghost writer Stephanie Calmenson.
- Mrs. Papadakis rides to the hospital with Kristy.
- Andrew gets light up sneakers.
- This is the one of the few instances of e-mail shown throughout the series.
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