The Baby-sitters Club: Kristy Thomas, Mary Ann Spier, Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill. They were the originals, the quartet of female friends who preceded the ladies of Sex and the City and came well before the foursome in Girls. They were also, of course, much younger: When we meet them (and some of them meet each other) for the first time in Book 1, Kristy's Great Idea, published in August 1986, they are 13 years old, seventh graders. They eventually graduated to eight grade, where they live out the duration of the series, written by Ann M. Martin and ghostwriters over a period of nearly 15 years. In the last book, published in October 2000, the girls finally graduated from middle school.
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