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There were at least three spinoff series: ''Baby-Sitter's Little Sister'' (about Kristy's seven-year-old stepsister, Karen); ''[[California Diaries]]'' (about Dawn and her friends in California); and ''Friends Forever'' (in which the club was reduced to its original four members). As well as these and the main series, there were additional ''Mysteries'' and ''Super Specials'' books. ''Little Sister'' also had its own spinoff, ''The Kids In Ms. Colman's Class.''
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* [[Alliteration]]: The softball teams that Kristy and Bart coach are called, respectively, Kristy's Krushers and Bart's Bashers.
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: A number of examples, but one that stands out in particular is the relationship between Claudia and her genius sister Janine. There were many books where the two of them bonded over junk food, had a heart-to-heart talk, and realized that the two of them were [[Not So Different]]. By the next book, their relationship was [[Reset Button|back to where it was]].
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** [[Teen Genius|Janine]] and [[Book Dumb|Claudia]].
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Kristy's father, Patrick Thomas, abandoned his wife and four children and almost never calls or writes.
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]: Stacey is not fond of being called Anastasia. Additionally, [[Last-Name Basis|King]], one of Logan's football teammates [[Berserk Button|does NOT like it]] when people call him by his given name, Clarence.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The whole plotline about Stacey's diabetes and the associated stigma leading to her moving away from New York lest she lose all her friends. In retrospect, the series' origins in the late eighties makes it likely the diabetes stood in for [[The Disease That Shall Not Be Named|something else]].
* [[Drunk Driver]]: One of their classmates, Amelia, is killed by a drunk driver in ''Mary Anne and the Memory Garden''.
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