Baby Sitters Club 61 - Jesse and the Awful Secret

Jessi Ramsey is at her regular ballet lessons in Stamford, when Madame Noelle announces that The Stamford Ballet School will be giving a free six week dance call to some of Stamford's less privileged children. Jessi voluteers to help out, and is surprised when only one other girl in her class volunteers, Mary Bramstedt. Because Jessi is the youngest person in her ballet class, along with being the only black member, sometimes she feels left out, and sees this as an opportunity to get to know some of her classmates. However, she immediately begins to sense something off about Mary, and Mary's obsession with dieting.

Jessi tells the sitters about her suspicions, and they borrow some books from Janine and do some research on anorexia. After Mary falls down in class and keeps getting skinnier, she takes her suspicions to Madame Noelle.