“Definitely.” I returned Mal’s smile.
Then I rode down the street to Mom and my new home.
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Dear Reader,
In Welcome Back, Stacey, Stacey has been away from Stoneybrook since book #13. During the time that she was away, I realized that she was a crucial member of the Baby-sitters Club, and I wanted to return her to Stoneybrook. Also during that time, I was beginning to receive more and more letters. Many of them were from readers whose parents were going through a divorce, just like Stacey’s. Some of them, like Stacey, were faced with difficult decisions. They said that they felt confused, and wished they could read a story about a favorite character who is in their position. And that was how the idea for Welcome Back, Stacey was born.
Happy reading,
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About the Author
ANN MATTHEWS MARTIN was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane.
There are currently over 176 million copies of The Baby-sitters Club in print. (If you stacked all of these books up, the pile would be 21,245 miles high.) In addition to The Baby-sitters Club, Ann is the author of two other series, Main Street and Family Tree. Her novels include Belle Teal, A Corner of the Universe (a Newbery Honor book), Here Today, A Dog’s Life, On Christmas Eve, Everything for a Dog, Ten Rules for Living with My Sister, and Ten Good and Bad Things About My Life (So Far). She is also the coauthor, with Laura Godwin, of the Doll People series.
Ann lives in upstate New York with her dog and her cats.
Copyright © 1989 by Ann M. Martin.
Cover art by Hodges Soileau
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First edition, August 1997
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