“With winks at ’90s cult horror films… a high-energy series starter that's plenty of fun.” -Booklist but spooky and with an Instagram-model-hot character for good measure.”- Cosmopolitan And all before the parents get home.Ī New York Public Library Best Book of the Year Turns out, Esme and Cassandra have more in common than they think, and they're about to discover what being a babysitter really means: a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from seriously terrifying evil. The answer lies in a mysterious note Cassandra's mother left her: 'Find the babysitters.

So why is Cassandra willing to do anything, even take on a potty-training two-year-old, to join Esme's babysitters club? She's Instagram-model hot, dresses like she found her clothes in a dumpster, and has a rebellious streak as gnarly as the cafeteria cooking. Let's just say she owes some people a new tree.Įnter Cassandra Heaven. Besides, Esme likes babysitting, and she's good at it.Īnd lately Esme needs all the cash she can get, because it seems like destruction follows her wherever she goes. She knows it's kinda lame, but what else is she supposed to do? Get a job? Gross. Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club. Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil.

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