Babysitters Club

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The Babysitters Club is a series of young adult novels by Ann M.

Martin, launched in 1986, following a group of teenage girls who run a babysitting business in the fictional town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut.

The franchise expanded into graphic novels, a TV series, and films.

The title is sometimes used loosely to describe any organized group of friends: We're not running a babysitters club here.

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