The Baby-Sitters Club #11: Kristy and the Snobs by Ann M. Martin

The Baby-Sitters Club #11: Kristy and the Snobs by Ann M. MartinKristy's mum got married again last summer and now Kristy and her family live in a new neighborhood. The kids aren't very friendly. In fact, they're well, snobs. They criticise Kristy's clothes. They make fun of the Baby Sitters Club. And worst of all, they laugh at Louie, Kristy's pet collie, who's going blind. Nobody does that and gets away with it! Kristy's fighting mad and she's not going to put up with it much longer. If anybody can beat a Snob

as the enemy closes in

It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger

Based on significant new insights

made a life for herself and her children where dust storms swirled off the Simpson Desert and gibber-covered plains shimmered in the midday heat

Walking through the jungle he passes lots of creatures enjoying a cuddle together: elephants

and survival

resulting in short term weight loss

And Charlie has found one

and - even back then - the fear of a climate apocalypse

Two drifters - small

Two people

threaded through with a deep love of the unforgiving desert