Download or read book Baby Sitting Is a Dangerous Job written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. A babysitter and her three willful charges make a formidable team to outwit their surprised kidnappers.
Download or read book Baby Sitting Is a Dangerous Job written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. A babysitter and her three willful charges make a formidable team to outwit their surprised kidnappers.
Download or read book Baby Sitting Is a Dangerous Job written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baby sitter and her three willful charges make a formidable team to outwit their surprised kidnappers.
Download or read book Award winning books for children and young adults written by Betty L. Criscoe and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Babysitter written by Miriam Forman-Brunell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-07-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun together—without the kids. But “getting a sitter”—especially a dependable one—rarely seems trouble-free. Will the kids be safe with “that girl”? It’s a question that discomfited parents have been asking ever since the emergence of the modern American teenage girl nearly a century ago. In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history. Informed by her research on the history of teenage girls’ culture, Forman-Brunell analyzes the babysitter, who has embodied adults’ fundamental apprehensions about girls’ pursuit of autonomy and empowerment. In fact, the grievances go both ways, as girls have been distressed by unsatisfactory working conditions. In her quest to gain a fuller picture of this largely unexamined cultural phenomenon, Forman-Brunell analyzes a wealth of diverse sources, such as The Baby-sitter’s Club book series, horror movies like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, urban legends, magazines, newspapers, television shows, pornography, and more. Forman-Brunell shows that beyond the mundane, understandable apprehensions stirred by hiring a caretaker to “mind the children” in one’s own home, babysitters became lightning rods for society’s larger fears about gender and generational change. In the end, experts’ efforts to tame teenage girls with training courses, handbooks, and other texts failed to prevent generations from turning their backs on babysitting.
Download or read book Paperback Crush written by Gabrielle Moss and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of vintage YA, a humorous and in-depth history of beloved teen literature from the 1980s and 1990s, full of trivia and pop culture fun. Those pink covers. That flimsy paper. The nonstop series installments that hooked readers throughout their entire adolescence. These were not the serious-issue novels of the 1970s, nor the blockbuster YA trilogies that arrived in the 2000s. Nestled in between were the girl-centric teen books of the ’80s and ’90s—short, cheap, and utterly adored. In Paperback Crush, author Gabrielle Moss explores the history of this genre with affection and humor, highlighting the best-known series along with their many diverse knockoffs. From friendship clubs and school newspapers to pesky siblings and glamorous beauty queens, these stories feature girl protagonists in all their glory. Journey back to your younger days, a time of girl power nourished by sustained silent reading. Let Paperback Crush lead you on a visual tour of nostalgia-inducing book covers from the library stacks of the past.
Download or read book Mallory on Strike The Baby Sitters Club 47 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters! Mallory couldn't imagine not being in a big family like hers. There's always someone to do things with, and she likes to help take care of her younger brothers and sisters. But now Mallory's working on an important writing project, and she needs peace and quiet. So why won't everyone leave her alone? Nicky needs help tying his shoes, Claire wants a sandwich, someone has to break up the triplets' fight, and Mallory feels like a full-time baby-sitter.And there's only one thing to do: This baby-sitter is going on strike!The best friends you'll ever have--with classic BSC covers and a letter from Ann M. Martin!
Download or read book Great Books for Girls written by Kathleen Odean and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates fiction and nonfiction books featuring girls and women in positive roles, ranking each entry by reading level.
Download or read book Babysitting Skills written by Wendy Ann Mattox and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a guide for pre-teens and teens on the skills needed to become a babysitter. Includes checklist.
Download or read book Mysteries in the Classroom written by Nancy J. Polette and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated author Nancy Polette offers a complete mystery literature guide for primary, intermediate, and middle school mysteries. Librarians and teachers alike will find this engaging title from popular author Nancy Polette a joy to use, and the information it offers is a sure way to engage students in literature. Mysteries in the Classroom introduces 23 reading strategies tied to the National Standards in Reading, Language Arts, and Social Studies that can be used with any mystery. Booktalks and activities are presented for 17 favorite mystery series and 6 favorite authors. The book includes hands-on activities to introduce each series and author, booktalks for the Edgar Allan Poe Juvenile Mystery Award winners from 1979 to 2008, and step-by-step directions for turning booktalks into readers theatre presentations. An especially exciting feature is a section contributed by Newberry-award winning author Richard Peck in which he guides budding young writers in coauthoring a mystery with him. Grades 1-6
Download or read book Babysitting Jobs written by Barbara Mehlman and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a guide for pre-teens and teens on how to get and keep babysitting jobs. Includes checklist.
Download or read book The Kidnappers written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I didn't like Willie Groves, but I didn't hate him enough to want someone to kidnap him." Famous last words. Joey Bishop soon finds himself face-to-face with the kidnappers himself (as well as his archenemy) in this fast-paced, urban story that will leave you panting for your next breath.
Download or read book Jo and the Bandit written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En route to stay with her uncle in Texas in the late 1860s, twelve-year-old Jo experiences a stagecoach robbery and becomes involved with a reluctant young outlaw aiming to change his ways.
Download or read book Undercurrents written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Nikki has trouble accepting her new stepmother Crystal, and the problem grows worse when they visit the Northern California house where Crystal lived as a child and experienced some horrible event that she is trying to keep secret.
Download or read book What Could Go Wrong written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gracie and her cousins find themselves in the midst of a summer vacation gone awry in this thrilling adventure from three-time Edgar Award–winning author Willo Davis Roberts. Everyone thinks Charlie is nothing but trouble, since bad things tend to happen whenever he’s around. But Gracie knows better. Now both kids have the chance to fly with their other cousin Eddie from Seattle to San Francisco without any adults. Gracie’s father isn’t sure the trip is a great idea, but Gracie’s not worried. What could go wrong? Then things begin to go wrong…very wrong! Is it just Charlie’s bad luck following them? Or have Gracie and her cousins stumbled into something more dangerous than they could have ever imagined?
Download or read book The View From the Cherry Tree written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rob admits having seen a murder, but no one believes him--except the murderer.
Download or read book Scared Stiff written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling classic mystery filled with “clever sleuthing” (Publishers Weekly) by two brothers looking for information about their missing mother from three-time Edgar Award–winning author Willo Davis Roberts is a thrilling roller coaster ride of a read. Rick and Kenny’s Pa was right all along—troubles really do happen in threes. First Pa’s truck was robbed, then Pa ran off, leaving Rick, Kenny, and Ma to fend for themselves, and now Ma has disappeared, too! Rick knows Ma would never leave them on purpose—but then, where is she? Waiting in Uncle Henry’s trailer park doesn’t seem to be getting them any closer to figuring out what happened. Instead the brothers, along with their new friends Connie and Julie, head to the abandoned Wonderland Amusement Park next door to search for answers. But what they find inside sends them on the most terrifying roller coaster ride of their lives. Could whoever took Ma be after them as well?
