In 1956, fourteen-year-old Dorothy, a sheltered Catholic girl from a lower middle class background, finds her summer job with a wealthy but troubled family in the Pennsylvania countryside a great strain on her resourcefulness and maturity.

Sadie Hoffmiller is in Boston, Massachusetts, with her boyfriend, Pete Cunningham, babysitting his three young grandsons. The boys insist that Mrs. Wapple, the woman who lives across the street, is a witch, and Sadie and Pete are anxious to distract the boys from such Halloween-induced ideas. Then Mrs. Wapple is attacked in her home, and Sadie finds herself embroiled in a series of unexplained occurrences with life-or-death consequences.

With her best friends pulling away from her, her newly-separated parents deciding she should spend the summer at her father's new home, and a babysitting job she does not want, Marley's life is already as precarious as an overfull water balloon when a cute boy enters the picture.

For thirty-something blogger Cora Chevalier, small-town Indigo Gap, North Carolina, seems like the perfect place to reinvent her life. Shedding a stressful past as a counselor for a women's shelter, Cora is pouring all her talents--and most of her savings--into a craft retreat business, with help from close pal and resident potter Jane Starr. Between transforming her Victorian estate into a crafter's paradise and babysitting Jane's daughter, the new...

"Despite being warned that kittens are monsters, Ember the Chihuahua (who still aims for world domination) agrees to babysit a family of kittens for three days after the mother cat offers him an army in return"--Title verso page.

Clio has already had one brush with the paranormal and she's dead set on making it her last. But her new babysitting job is in a haunted house! At first, Clio's excited to work at the Victorian mansion in town - until doors start closing behind her, objects move on their own, and messages appear from beyond the grave.

Amelia and her best friend Carly create their own babysitting business to make some money, but they soon learn that babysitting involves more than just sitting near a baby.

Nola moves to town and challenges Kaitlyn's status as top babysitter in Marshfield.

"This summer, the Baby-sitters and a whole bunch of the kids they sit for are going to Camp Mohawk! With the girls as Counselors-in-Training, and the kids as campers, it'll be just like baby-sitting--in the woods! The Baby-sitters soon discover that camp isn't just nature walks and making lanyards. Dawn gets lost in the wilderness overnight. Kristy learns how to use mascara, and Mary Anne gets caught sneaking over to the boys' side of the camp. Stacey...

When the fairies discover that the Fairyland nursery is in chaos, Rachel and Kirsty are enlisted to help Bailey the babysitter fairy retrieve her magical charm from a thieving Jack Frost.