"Adults are always telling kids that spiders are more afraid of them than they are of the spider. But what about when that spider is the size of a dog? And your parents are out? And you just saw it scuttle past the open doorway to the living room? You know it's waiting to jump out and eat you. You have no choice... you have to find it before it finds you!"--

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 focuses...

A little boy provides instructions for properly babysitting one's grandfather, such as offering him tasty treats and entertaining him with special games.

A little boy faces the scariest babysitter he has ever seen when his parents leave him with a T-Rex. Features left-hand pages with advanced text for parents to read and right-hand pages with simpler text to help children develop their reading skills.

Not even his babysitter's most strenuous efforts can convince Joe the frog to go to bed.

Greta is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, only to discover that the family's eight-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their actual son twenty years prior. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring Greta's worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually...

Clint McCool is excited to meet Sol-Ray Man, his favorite television superhero who is visiting his school, but when school is canceled because of a water pipe break and he is picked up by a babysitter, he finds it hard to save the day.

Eleven-year-old Mallory finds a real challenge in babysitting for the troublesome Arnold twins.

As the hours tick by from nine in the morning to seven at night, two rambunctious twins create mayhem.