He tries to push her, but he misses and falls to his inevitable death. Hagen forces her to move to the edge of the quarry right beside a deep pit. Hagen then offers Jenny a ride home, but she soon finds out that he is actually taking her out to a rock quarry that had been deserted for years. Hagen catches them kissing and becomes angry, having told Jenny never to invite over friends while she was babysitting, explaining how his daughter had died due to neglect of the babysitter. Apparently, Donny had a sister when he was younger, but she died in an accident when a previous babysitter wasn't paying attention to her.Īfter Chuck, Jenny's love interest, comes over while she is babysitting, Mr. Hagen, was the one making those calls after finding a stash of newspaper clippings in his closet. She soon figures out that Donny's father, Mr. While babysitting, she gets menacing phone calls from someone and finds a threatening note in her backpack. Jenny Jeffers, a sixteen-year-old girl, takes a babysitting job for a child named Donny. Three sequels of this book were published: The Babysitter II in July 1991, The Babysitter III in October 1993 and The Babysitter IV in June 1995. The first novel follows a simple premise of a babysitter who finds she is the next in a series of babysitting victims to a crazed killer. The first novel in the series was published in 1989, and it led to establish Stine as a prominent author in the children's horror genre. But who wants to hurt her? What kind of maniac is willing to scare her.July 1989 – June 1995 (initial publication)
When she finds a threatening note in her bag, she realizes that this isn't a harmless game. Then the crank phone calls start, and Jenny discovers a creepy "neighbor" prowling in the backyard. First there is the dark and gloomy Hagen house, filling her with dread and horror. Some wavy page edges toward the end of the book.įrom the minute that Jenny accepts the Hagen babysitting job, she knows she has made a terrible mistake. Three sequels of this book were published: The Babysitter II on July 1991, The Babysitter III on October 1993 and The Babysitter IV on June 1995.įirst Scholastic Printing July 1989, 2nd Impression
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