Charlie, twelve, who has autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, must endure a cross-country trip with his siblings and a strange babysitter to visit their war-journalist father, who will undergo brain surgery after being injured in Afghanistan.

Pirate stew! Pirate stew! Pirate stew for me and you! Pirate stew! Pirate stew! Eat it and you won't be blue. You can be a pirate too!

When Eleanor Roosevelt and Fala turn up in ten-year-old Nolan's bedroom closet, his mother, taking Mrs. Roosevelt for the new baby sitter, leaves him and his little sister Olive with her.

"Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking. For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies--unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably--on the night Millie babysits. There's nothing she could have done. There's...

Mayhem ensues in their sleepy California beach town when three best friends, motivated by unlimited snacks, no parents, and earning money for an epic seventh-grade party, find an old copy of "The Babysitters Club" and decide to start their own babysitting business.

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"--

When Charlotte and Tiana babysit Naveen's younger brother Ralphie, they remember the fun they used to have as little girls.

When Marco and Polo are left in charge of Marco's little cousins, they are afraid their adventures are a thing of the past, until the pair come up with the perfect solution--a hamster sitter.

Dawn enjoys her visit to California so much that she considers staying there with her father, as her brother, Jeff, has done.