Kristy Thomas is our president. She is really energetic and has a ton of great ideas. The best one, of course, was dreaming up the Baby-sitters Club. Kristy has brown hair and brown eyes, is the shortest girl in the eighth grade, and doesn't care much about clothes. She usually wears jeans, running shoes, a turtleneck, and a sweater, and she doesn't need a bra yet. She can usually be found wearing

this old baseball cap with a picture of a collie on it.

Kristy loves sports. In fact, the walls of her bedroom are covered with posters of gymnasts and football players and even a few Olympic posters. I guess you can tell that she's pretty much of a tomboy. Kristy's also got a big mouth, which sometimes gets her into trouble, and she can be pretty bossy at times. But she's a lot of fun, and she's terrific with kids. In fact, she coaches a^softball team called Kristy's Krushers. The Krushers sometimes play Bart's Bashers, who are coached by none other than (the extremely cute) Bart Taylor. He's sort of Kristy's boyfriend and lives in her neighborhood but goes to a private school. (All of the regular BSC members go to Stoneybrook Middle School.)

My family, which at this moment is driving me crazy, is huge and so is Kristy's. But her family is all mixed up like a crazy quilt. (You know those quilts that are made of funny shapes and colors pieced together with no real design?) She has two older brothers in high school named Sam and Charlie. Then there's David Michael, who's much younger. He's seven.

Right after David Michael was born, Kristy's father walked out on the family, leaving Mrs. Thomas with four kids. Then guess what. Mrs.

Thomas met Watson Brewer — a genuine millionaire! They got married, and the entire family moved from their smallish house (Kristy used to live on Bradford Court across from Claud) to Watson's mansion on the other side of town.