Super Special #3 - Baby-Sitters Winter Vacation

Plot:
The entire middle school, along with other middle schools, are going on a week long winter vacation to a lodge. While they are there, they have a Winter War, with a ton of outdoor winter activities. The entire school is divided between two teams - Kristy, of course, is the captain of her team, and she is also organizing the entire war.

On the way to the Lodge, a group of elementary students' bus gets into a wreck and the two teachers that came with them are injured. So, of course, the BabySitters Club offers to babysit them the entire week and even bunk up with them.

Logan can't go on the trip because his family is going to Aruba, so MA decides to write a book for him about her trip that he missed.

Highlights:

• MaryAnne is without Logan for ONE week and she loses her mind and assumes he is cheating on her. Also, he calls her from ARUBA just to say he misses her. They are 13. 
• Stacey and Claudia both fall in love - Stacey with Pierre, who is a 13 year old from another school. The feeling is mutual. Claudia falls for her ski instructor, who is married with two kids. The feeling is not mutual. 
• Dawn, who always says how easy going she is and doesn't care what people think of her, falls down a lot during the winter games and pouts the entire rest of the book. She starts a fight with MA and gets mad at Kristy. 
• Jessi, as an 11 year old sixth grader, is in charge of the entire Talent Show they have one night. Don't worry, she takes the opportunity to schedule herself into the show for a ballet solo. Also, one of the little kids is kind of rude to her, and Jessi decides it has to be race related, but of course it's not - the kid is just homesick (and also kind of a jerk). 
• Of course Kristy is way too intense about the winter war and ends up alienating most of her class. She also guilts people into joining the cross country skiing competition and one kid ends up breaking his leg. 
• If I was still doing worse character ever, Mallory would win. First, she loses her mind because they assign the rooms by grades, so her and Jessi are with sixth graders and of course she doesn't think that is fair. It doesn't matter anyway, since they end up volunteering to stay with the kids (seriously, can these girls ever NOT babysit?). Then, they announce there will be a dance on their last night at the lounge, and she is literally praying for the place to BURN TO THE GROUND so she doesn't have to go. She is the worst. 
• Oh, and Mallory tries to do her spying thing again, but she actually gets caught twice - one time, it's spying on Stacey and her lover. LIKE SERIOUSLY - she is so weird. 
• This was the first BSC book I ever read, so I have a soft spot in my heart for it. But even back then, I remember thinking "why would these girls give up their entire week to babysit for free?"