Hello readers! This blog post is a bit outside of things that I usually blog about. It was brought to my attention that we could use a post for read-a-likes to the SUPER popular series: The Babysitters Club! As I used to be a Middle School Assistant Librarian I am very familiar with the status of this series flying off the shelves in the children’s section. This post is for those who are super excited to read another Babysitters Club book only to find the section laid bare by other ravenous fans. Please do not despair! You are in luck! If you find yourself in those unfortunate circumstances we have books very similar and no less fun!

Best Babysitters Ever by Caroline Cala

If you are a Babysitters Club fan, you will totally fall in love with this great series! Malia Twiggs is also a HUGE fan of The Babysitters Club. She thinks it would be a great idea to start her own babysitting club in her home town. Malia is sure she and her friends will rake in a TON of money. The catch? Malia and her friends Bree and Dot know absolutely nothing about taking care of little kids. It can’t be that hard right? Prepare for hilarious babysitting fails as these girls learn the value of friendship and just how complicated taking care of little ones can be.

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Best Babysitters Ever
Best Babysitters Ever: The Good, The Bad, and The Bossy
Best Babysitters Ever: Miss Impossible

Twins by Varian Johnson and Shannon Wright

Maureen and Francine are the closest of sisters. They are twins after all! They do everything together and are the best of friends as they like the exact same things! Everything changes when they get to middle school and enter the 6th grade. Francine decides that she wants be be called Fran. She wants to try new things without her sister Maureen. Maureen is shattered inside. Is it inevitable that middle school pulls the sisters apart? Read Twins to find out!

The Click Series by Kayla Miller

If you are looking for a longer series to get into like The Babysitters Club, then Click is what you are looking for! Click is the first book in the series and follows main character, Olive, as she navigates friendship complications. Olive is the MOST POPULAR girl in her grade. She has never had any difficulties making friends. That all changes when the school puts on a Variety Show. Olive is super excited and wants to join an act. But no one seems to want Olive to join their group! Feeling left out and out of place will Olive be able to find friends who truly appreciate her?

Click is followed by books: Camp, Act, Clash, Crunch, and Break. There is also a spin off series called Besties I would recommend checking out!

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Click
Camp
Act
Clash
Crunch
Break

The Real Friends Series by Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham

Its called The Group. Everyone wants to be a part of it. By being part of it you are considered to be one of the most popular people in school. The Group is led by Jen: the most popular of the popular. EVERYONE wants to be Jen’s friend. Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends forever, but now Adrienne has become a part of The Group and Jen’s new best friend. The Group is cutthroat. Girls will do what ever it takes to stay on top including bullying others. Will Shannon ever get her friend back from The Group?

Follow Shannon through the Real Friend’s Series as she struggles with making friends, keeping friends, doing the right thing, and dating!

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Real Friends
Best Friends
Friends Forever

The Sunny Series by Jennifer L Holm and Matthew Holm

Sunny is a girl who is always looking on the bright side. Each book in The Sunny Series follows Sunny on a new adventure! In the first book, Sunny Side Up, Sunny is sent to Florida for the summer to stay with her grandfather. Though she was excited for a summer in the tropics, Sunny finds that reality does not match her expectations. Always one to turn around a bad situation, Sunny makes friends with the only other kid around and solves a family mystery in the process!

In Swing It Sunny, Sunny enters Middle School. She starts to feel very confused about everything in her life. Middle School is rough and soooo complicated. In addition, Sunny’s brother is back from boarding school. Only, he has changed. He is not the same fun brother that Sunny grew up with. Sunny is not going to let life slow her down. Through it all she will prove that positivity can fix all the rainy clouds.

Join Sunny in Sunny Roll the Dice as she proves that being “cool” is just too darn exhausting and seriously BORING. Its better to be true to yourself and do what you love than trying to mold yourself into someone you think you should be. Sunny doesn’t understand why everyone in Middle School tries to be “cool”. She is happy just hanging out with her friends and playing Dungeons and Dragons in her basement. Sunny shows us through humor and heart that its more fun to have fun and do what you love than try to conform to what others see as “cool”. (Because “cool” is really not. Seriously kids, listen to Sunny. We were all there at one time. Be you. Do what makes you happy. Don’t force yourself to be something you are not just to fit in. Be true to yourself because YOU are an incredible human being and perfectly unique. Don’t change that.)

In the newest installment of The Sunny Series (Sunny Makes a Splash) Sunny gets her very first job! Its at the city pool which means FREE SWIMMING!!! Everything is great! Sunny is happy and having a blast with this stroke of independence. However, Sunny’s mom doesn’t think that Sunny is ready for so much freedom. Will Sunny and her mom be able to come to terms or will mom sink Sunny’s summer?

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Sunny Side Up
Swing It Sunny
Sunny Rolls the Dice
Sunny Makes a Splash