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1) Red leaves
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Eric Moore has reason to be happy. He has a prosperous business, a comfortable home, a stable family life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son Keith is asked to babysit Amy Giordano, the eight-year-old daughter of a neighboring family. The next morning Amy is missing.
Suddenly Eric is one of the stricken parents he has seen on television, professing faith in his child's innocence. As the police investigation increasingly
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Twelve-year-old Jane, who lives at the beach in a run-down old house with her mother, two brothers, and sister, has an eventful summer accompanying her pastor on bible deliveries, meeting former boyfriends of her mother's, and being coerced into babysitting for a family of ill-mannered children.
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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....
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Fourteen-year-old Amy's excitement over her first babysitting job ends when she and her three-year-old charge are kidnapped, but a daily videorecording sent to little Kendra's parents allows Amy to send clues, in hopes of being rescued before the kidnappers decide they no longer need her.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original volume 25
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While trying to find her missing kitten with the help of the other members of the Baby-sitters Club, Mary Anne almost loses her good friend Logan.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original volume 31
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Dawn and Mary Anne are good friends, but when they become stepsisters, their relationship undergoes some changes.
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Soccer Cats volume 2
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Ten-year-old Bundy finds his performance and attitude as captain of his soccer team suffering when he is saddled with a babysitter at home.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original volume 45
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Kristy gets the great idea of entering a float in the Stoneybrook Baby Parade. It sounded easy, but the float looks like a big orange blob, the costumes are hideous, and the babies won't stop crying.
13) The babysitter
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How far will one man and his wife go to protect their privileged lives? Gordon Acton is a well heeled Congressional candidate and hopes to attract votes by hiring a young minority woman as a babysitter for their children during their summer on Cape Cod. Theresa Santiago is wise beyond her years as well as alluringly attractive. But is she the answer to the Actons' domestic woes and political aspirations, or a threat to everything they hold dear? After...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original volume 34
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While babysitting during a vacation at the beach, thirteen-year-old Mary Anne realizes that boys can really make life complicated for her and her girl friends.
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During the Christmas season, Rebecca Yoder agrees to help new preacher Caleb Wittner with his mischievous daughter. Amelia's turned the community of Seven Poplars upside down. Only Rebecca can see the pain hidden beneath the little girl's antics--and her father's brusque manner. After losing his wife in a fire, Caleb's physical scars may be healing, but his emotions have not. Yet Rebecca's sweet manner soon has him smiling and laughing with his daughter--and...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original volume 4
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When a fight breaks out among the members of the Baby-sitters Club, timid Mary Anne finds herself becoming more assertive as a baby sitter and in her relationships with her father and friends.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original volume 43
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Stacey hasn't been feeling well. Her schoolwork and baby-sitting jobs are almost out of control. And Stacey's tired of being in the middle of her parents' fights. Stacey ends up in the hospital because of her diabetes.
20) Boy-crazy Stacey
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Baby-sitters Club. Original volume 8
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Working as a mother's helper, with Stacey, for the Pike family at the Jersey shore, Mary Anne is upset when Stacey begins to neglect her job to spend her time pursuing a gorgeous lifeguard.