During the summer before their seventh-grade year, Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey tackle difficulties, including family problems, crushes, moving, and making new friends.

"How do you say good-bye to your very best friend?"--Cover Oh, no! Stacey McGill is moving back to New York! That means no more Stoneybrook Middle School, no more Charlotte Johanssen, and worst of all ... no more Baby-sitters Club! Stacey's friends are crushed when they hear that Stacey's moving, Claudia most of all. Stacey was her first best friend. How will the Baby-sitters cope without Stacey? What kind of going-away present is good enough for...

Dawn's moving back to California. But she'll be back, right? Dawn loves her life and stepfamily in Stoneybrook, but she misses her dad and brother in California. So she makes a decision -- she's going to move back to California for six months. But will she really return to Stoneybrook?