“Dawn, would you get it?” Mom called from the kitchen.
“Sure!”
As I pulled the door open, I heard a familiar voice say, “One, two, ready, go!”
Then many more voices sang out:
“Deck the halls with boughs of holly,
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la,
Dawn is home, so we are jolly,
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!”
At that last line, Kristy, Claudia, Stacey, Jessi, and Mallory cracked up.
I stood there, my jaw hanging open. Mom, Richard, Jeff, and Mary Anne had gathered around me. “Is this the company?” I blurted out.
“Would I invite anyone else?” Mom said.
“Where’s the food?” tactful Kristy asked.
“Save some for me!” Richard cried.
We ran into the dining room, chatting, squealing, laughing. And even though we didn’t stop talking for hours, we managed to polish off every morsel of food.
I couldn’t have imagined a better Christmas.
The author gratefully acknowledges
Peter Lerangis
for his help in
preparing this manuscript.
About the Author
ANN MATTHEW 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 © 1994 by Ann M. Martin.
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First edition, December 1994
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