PUBLISHER: Scholastic, 7/1991GENRE: Young Adult Fiction/Thriller
SETTING: USA
SERIES: The Baby-Sitter
PURCHASE: link, link
MY GRADE: C
FROM PUBLISHER: Jenny's last baby-sitting job nearly killed her. But she's a survivor and she's over it. She's even got a new baby-sitting job. Then the phone rings. When she answers, she hears a familiar voice--a voice from the grave.
MY THOUGHTS: This one was worse than the one that came before it and it seems shorter somehow but is around the same length. It takes place in the summer, about eight months after the previous one ended. It follows the same formula as the first in this series- Jenny's babysitting an annoying male child who's got blond hair and blue eyes and has an odd personality. She's paid $5 per hour, just like with the other babysitting job. She continues to receive the same creepy phone calls from an anonymous person. She's got different friends in this one, three of them, and of course both boys like her, and a character from the previous book makes an appearance.
The ten-year-old boy in this one is Eli. He's got three pet tarantulas, loves horror movies, and likes for the bad guy to win. He's got a really high IQ and his parents seem scared of him.
The negatives- Two of the three new friends in this didn't really serve a purpose. I didn't like sitting in on Jenny's multiple therapy sessions because all she did was repeat to the doctor everything we already know happened. It was just a way of filling up pages. Nothing exciting happened.
You'll never in your wildest dreams guess who the villain is so don't try.
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