The next person I'll tell you about is Kristy. As I said, she's the club president. She's president because the club was originally her idea and also because Kristy is naturally a presidential type person. She's always coming up with great ideas. She knows how to make them happen, too. Kristy is a doer not just a talker - although Kristy does talk a lot. You might even say she has a big mouth.

    It might sound as if Kristy is a pain, but she's not. She has a great sense of humor and is really down-to-earth. And her "bossiness" is what keeps the club running so well.

    For someone with such a big personality, Kristy is very petite. Although she's thirteen (just like all the other members besides Mal and me) she looks younger. She has longish brown hair and brown eyes. Her idea of fashion is jeans, sneakers, and a T-shirt or a sweater. She also wears either her visor or a baseball cap with a collie on it. You could call Kristy a tomboy. She loves sports and even coaches her own softball team for little kids called Kristy's Krushers. Boys aren't high on her list of interests - except she does like Bart Taylor who coaches a rival softball team.

    From everything I've told you about Kristy, here's something I bet you'd never guess. Kristy is rich. Her stepfather Watson Brewer is a millionaire! Kristy didn't start off rich. In fact, Mr. Thomas, her father, up and left the family right after her little brother, David Michael, was born. Mrs. Thomas had to raise (and support) Kristy, her two older brothers, and David Michael all on her own. But Mrs. Thomas is like Kristy - a practical person with lots of energy. She got a good job in Stamford (one of those business kinds of jobs I don't always understand). And that's where she met Watson Brewer.

    When Kristy was in the seventh grade, Mrs.