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For a children’s series that’s been out of print for a decade, The Baby-Sitters Club has an enormous, wildly devoted fan base. It just happens to consist of 20- and 30-year-olds.

So in December, when Scholastic, the publisher, announced that the author Ann Martin had signed on to re-launch the series—which primarily follow the baby-sitting adventures of seven 13-year-old girls—these diehards, using computers instead of kid-kits, had much to say.