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Author
Language
English
Description
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar....
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 18 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Mr. Nogginbody discovers that babysitting is much more difficult than he imagined, but also how much more fun it can be to act like a child than to be the grownup.
Author
Series
Mrs. Noodlekugel volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nick and Maxine have a new babysitter--the eccentric Mrs. Noodlekugel who lives in the funny little house behind their drab high-rise apartment building along with her feline butler, Mr. Fuzzface, and three myopic mice.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club graphic novel volume 4
Language
English
Description
Claudia and her sister, Janine, may as well be from two different planets. But when something terrible happens to their grandmother, the two sisters discover they''re more alike than they originally had thought.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (78 p.) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her mother cannot find a babysitter for the weekend, thirteen-year-old Monica is left in charge of the house and her stepsister Angela, with disastrous results.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"October 1983. When single mom Eleanor Mazinski goes out a for a much-needed date night, she leaves her two young children-sweet, innocent six-year-old Ben and precocious, defiant twelve-year-old Mira-in the capable hands of their sitter, Amy. The quiet seventeen-year-old is good at looking after children, despite her anxiety disorder. She also loves movies, especially horror flicks. Amy likes their predictability; it calms the panic that threatens...
Author
Series
Babysitters Coven volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
When the Synod, the Sitterhood's governing circle, calls a once-in-a-generation Summit, Esme should be excited to get the answers she wants, but she is struck, instead, by a building sense of panic.
11) Woman no. 17
Author
Language
English
Description
High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left alone with her children, she's going to need a hand taking care of her young son if she's ever going to finish her memoir. In response to a Craigslist ad, S arrives, a magnetic young artist who will live in the secluded guest house out back, care for Lady's toddler, Devin, and keep a watchful eye on her older, teenage son, Seth. S performs her day job...
13) Imperfect spiral
Author
Publisher
Walker Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a teenaged girl's babysitting charge is killed in a car accident while in her care, she must come to terms with the aftermath of the tragedy and her community's search for someone to blame.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a teen falls while taking a selfie at the edge of a cliff, the last thing she sees before plummeting to her death is Katie Harmon, the nine-year-old girl she was babysitting, looking down at her. Investigators gather at the scene, and Katie's mother, Sara, rushes to comfort her daughter. Yet there's a small, secret ping of alarm in Sara's heart that she cannot share--though rookie detective Kim Pierce senses it. For years, others have tried...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lily's mother is sick and her father must go to work, but she does not want to stay with a babysitter, even if it means playing with cute baby Sam, sweet little dog Ringo, and fun big brother Jack.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Sarah Goldman ... is relieved to move across the country. She has a lot she wants to leave behind, especially Holly Monroe, the pretty twenty-two-year-old babysitter she and her husband, Daniel, hired to take care of their young son ... Sarah ... kept a close eye on Holly ... What she saw raised some questions, not only about who Holly really was but what she was hiding ... They've settled into a friendly suburb where the neighbors ... are always...
Author
Series
Lulu volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lulu's parents go on vacation, the formidable Ms. Sonia Sofia Solinsky comes to babysit and Lulu behaves as badly as possible to get her to leave until Ms. Solinsky reveals her secret.
19) Watch your back
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2025.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Accidents happen, no matter how careful or well-intentioned you are. Psychiatrist Eve Thayer frequently reassures her patients of that fact. There are even times when accidents have good consequences--like when Eve met her now-husband, Nathan, at his collision shop after another car ran her off the road. After a whirlwind courtship, Nathan and Eve have settled into domestic life. They have a lovely home on a quiet street, a beautiful baby girl, and...
Author
Series
Pacey Packer unicorn tracker volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Pacey travels through Rundalyn to rescue her little sister, Mina, who was taken there by Slasher, her unicorn-turned-plush toy, who hopes to regain his rightful form and place in society.