My DD is 9 and is obsessed with babysitters club! which pleases me to no end! She talks about Claudia Kishi, learned how to talk pig latin, and takes the quizzes at the end of the books

She began reading the Little Sisters ones in the second grade and tore through them! Then I recommended the regular series and she began eating those up too!

There is talk of boys and dating, which doesn't bother me because it's pretty innocuous.

I have had to order through Ebay because they only have the graphics ones in print at B&N, etc. My DD doesn't like graphics book so we order them online and get big boxes of them at a time.

We never restricted books based on age (I just figured the kids would do as I did and stop reading any book that was too intense or that was boring because it described things they weren't yet ready to understand). My kids started reading those around the age of 6-8, between K and 3rd grade depending on the kid. We were fine with that, but if you find the Babysitters Club books too mature, I know they have a spin-off series geared towards younger readers. I think it's called something like Babysitter's Little Sister, so maybe that might be more suitable.

When did your kids start reading these? 8 year old, 2nd grader, got it from the school library and is now asking for more. I loved them as a 10 year old but I also watched All My Children with my grandmother! I will read through it too, but just wondering what others have done. It's the graphic novel if that matters.
Tia