Baby-Sitters Club makes a modern comeback

It's time to dust off your slouch socks and pull your hair up in a Scrunchie. We're heading back to Stoneybrook.

The New York Times is reporting Scholastic Inc. will publish Ann M. Martin's prequel this year to "The Baby-sitters Club." That's right ladies (ages 20s to 30s), we will soon know what like was like before Kristy, Claudia and Mary Ann dreamed up their all girls club. (Dawn was my favorite. She had divorced parents, just like me.)

So here's my only concern: "The Baby-sitters Club" got its start in 1986 - a decade without cell phones, Wiis and DVD players. How is this prequel going to be relevant to girls now?

I really hope Martin can jazz up "The Summer Before" without losing the simple charms and wholesome storylines found in the pages of dozens of "BSC" books.

Thousands of "BSC" fans will stroke out if Martin makes David Michael (Kristy's brother) a vampire or gives Mallory Pike a drug problem.