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....

A little girl provides instructions for properly babysitting one's grandmother, such as taking trips to the park and singing duets.

Staying with Mrs. Noodlekugel while their father competes to become a speed knitter, Nick and Maxine are surprised by the return of Captain Noodlekugel, who practices his animal-taming skills on a rather untrainable bear.

"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...

Eleven-year-old Jessi copes with pet sitting for the Mancusi family and serious dissension among the members of the Baby-sitters Club.

"The kids are in for a treat when their parents leave them with an extraterrestrial babysitter"--

Ruby and Louise create their own Babysitting Squad business, but watching their first client, Percy Wardropper, proves to be a challenge.

Amelia Bedelia follows to the letter the list of instructions for looking after the Lanes' baby.

"If you get a new babysitter, and it's almost Halloween, be wary...for she might just be a bruja!"--Provided by publisher.

A young girl enjoys taking care of her father through a day of ordinary activities, and encouraging him to be anything he wants when he grows up--as long as she can be part of it.