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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 17
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
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Mary Anne should never have thrown away that chain letter she got in the mail. Ever since she did, bad things have been happening-to everybody in the Baby-sitters Club. With Halloween coming up, Mary Anne's even more worried-what kind of spooky thing will happen next? Then Mary Anne finds a new note in her mailbox: Wear this bad-luck charm, it says. OR ELSE. Mary Anne's got to do what the note says. But who sent the charm? And why did this person...
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Read-Alikes for Come and Get It
Read-Alikes for Such a Fun Age
Reading about Black Lives
Reese's Book Club
Read-Alikes for Such a Fun Age
Reading about Black Lives
Reese's Book Club
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A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. --from Amazon.
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...
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
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"It used to be that Mary Anne's dad was really strict, but not anymore. Mary Anne's been growing up...but that's not the only big news for the Baby-sitters Club. There's a new boy in school named Logan Bruno, and he likes Mary Anne! He has a dreamy Southern accent, he's awfully cute--and he wants to join the Baby-sitters Club. The Baby-sitters aren't sure Logan will make a good club member. And Mary Anne thinks she's too shy for Logan. Life in the...
Author
Series
Clarice Bean (Picture books) volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When her Uncle Ted, the fireman, comes to stay with Clarice and her brothers and sister while her mother is away, things get somewhat hectic.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club (Graphic novels) volume 4
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2008.
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
Babysitters coven volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After new student Cassandra Heaven joins seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl's babysitters club, the girls learn that being a babysitter really means a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from evil.
Author
Series
Henry and Mudge books volume 22
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
While Henry's parents are at a Sweetheart Dance on Valentine's Day, he and his dog Mudge have a wonderful time staying at Mrs. Hopper's house, where they enjoy tea and music and dressing up in various costumes.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Language
English
Description
When Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, and Stacey, the members of the Baby-sitters Club, each receive mysterious calls while they are working, they decide to find out who is responsible.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Hannah Steele loves living on Pelling, a tiny island near Seattle. It's a little disconnected from the outside world, but she's always felt completely safe there. Which is why when she's asked one day to babysit after school, she thinks it's no big deal. Zoe and Oscar are her next-door neighbors, and Hannah just took a babysitting class that she's pretty sure makes her an expert. She isn't even worried that she left her inhaler at home. Then the shaking...
12) Relief map
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the heat of a stifling summer in her sixteenth year, Livy [Markos] spends her days in the rust-belt town of Lomath, Pennsylvania, babysitting, hanging out with her best friend Nelson, and waiting for a bigger life to begin. These simple routines are disrupted when the electricity is cut off and the bridges are closed by a horde of police and FBI agents. A fugitive from the Republic of Georgia, on the run from an extradition order, has taken refuge...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Goldman, mother to six-year-old Jacob, 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 last summer. It started out as a perfect arrangement—Sarah had a childminder her son adored, and Holly found the mother figure she’d always wanted. But Sarah’s never been one to trust...
14) Los mejores años
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando a Emira la detienen en la tienda del barrio acomodado de la familia para la que trabaja de canguro, acusándola de haber secuestrado a la niña a la que cuida, no le cabe duda de que el motivo es el color de su piel. Emira quiere pasar página, pero su jefa, Alix, está dispuesta a lo que sea con tal de ayudarla y no va a permitírselo. Alix Chamberlain siempre consigue lo que quiere. No es consciente del privilegio que le otorgan su dinero...
15) The bobcat
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Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Laurelie, a young art student who suffers in the aftermath of a sexual assault, has grown progressively more isolated and fearful. She transfers from her busy city university to a small college in rural Vermont, where she retreats into her vivid imagination, experiencing the world through her art. Most comfortable in the company of the child for whom she babysits, and most at ease in the woods, Laurelie has shunned any connection with her peers....
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"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...
17) Hello Mallory
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 14
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mallory wants to become a member of the Baby-sitters Club, but the girls make it extremely difficult for her to join.
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