Teenager Amalia Vargas finds the courage to be true to herself in this spin-off from the Newbery Award-winning author's Baby-sitters Club series. When you're thirteen, having a boyfriend in a band is basically the coolest thing ever. But Amalia is starting to feel trapped by her relationship with James, who's jealous when she spends time with anyone but him-even her family and friends. Amalia knows standing up for yourself is important, but every time she takes a step forward something else happens to make her doubt everything-including the place she calls home. Luckily, her friends are there to help her through the hard times . . . The next chapter following Ann M. Martin's bestselling Baby-sitters Club series, the California Diaries are the first-person journals of Dawn, Sunny, Maggie, Amalia, and Ducky-five teenagers dealing with the ups and downs of growing up. This collection includes the complete set of Amalia's three California Diaries.