'Tis the season for lighthouse ghosts, alien beehives, and AI-enabled thermonuclear devastation, and there's only one person in the whole wide world who could bring you all of that and more wrapped up in a (technically) Holiday-themed Baby-Sitters Club book. So if you detect a hint of exuberance in the boys' voices this week it's either because this scintillating novel is a beautiful gift, or it’s not exuberance at all but incipient panic about the fact that we just found out for certain that ghosts are real. Sorry. Scare warning. Anyway, Claudia and Janine both have eyes for this hunk named Steve and ghosts are real and a boy died. Enjoy!

Music credits:

“Typewriter Blues,” by AllenGrey

“Just a Little Hope,” by Adigold

“Parting Ways,” by Allen Grey

“Jazz Sad Hip Hop,” by Black Stone Sound

“Love Potion,” by Fasol Prod

“Beautiful Darkness,” by Allen Grey

“School Music Video,” by DjHappY

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, Baby Bee Liz for the “Guessing the Mystery” theme, and to Bye Bye Empire for the outro music.

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