Mallory's Christmas Wish (The Baby-Sitters Club, No. 92)

Mallory loves Christmas, but not the commercialism. She wishes her family could celebrate an old-fashioned holiday. The Pikes love the idea. Then her family wins a contest! They will receive ten thousand dollars to have their old-fashioned Christmas captured on film. Soon the camera crew moves in and begins filming the Pikes' cookie-baking, stocking-hanging, and tree-trimming. At first, everything goes fine. But then the filming gets out of control. The Pikes' old-fashioned Christmas is becoming a disaster. What happened to Mallory's wish? Loving the holiday season but hating its commercialism, Mallory coordinates an old-fashioned family Christmas of baking and trimming that attracts media attention, but Mallory begins to fear that the chaotic film crews will spoil her plans. Original. Stacy finds herself caught between loyalty to old friends who suddenly seem immature and her boyfriend Robert and new friends--and forced to make a choice that could mean quitting the Baby-sitters Club. Original. Mallory's wish for her family to celebrate an old-fashioned Christmas slowly becomes a disaster when the family wins ten thousand dollars to have their preparations captured on film "Stacey could never outgrow the BSC ... or could she?"