Baby-Sitting is a Dangerous Job

Author: Roberts, Wilo Davis

Main Characters: Darcy, Jeremy, Melissa, and Shana

Setting: an old house that is mysterious and falling apart.

Summary:A girl is babysitting to save money to buy a boombox.

    Summary by Number 14: 14 year old Darcy is babysitting for 6 year old Jeremy, 4 year old Melissa, and 2 year old Shana Foster. The Fosters are a very wealthy family. The children have very nice and expensive looking toys. With all the toys these kids have Darcy thinks this job will be a piece of cake, if she can keep them from killing eachother, and her. Boy was she wrong. On the second day of her new job she and the kids get kidnapped by the father and brothers of a girl named Diana that goes to Darcy's school.

     They are taken to an old house and are trapped upstairs, and are guarded by big trained guard dogs. These men are planning to get ransom money from Mr. Foster, and escape to Mexico. But the children escape and the kidnappers are taken to jail.

Questions:Please list three questions and answers.  read what has been written already.  Do not duplicate an question.  Please correct or add information to an answer.

1.What happens while she is babysitting?

Some strangers come to the house.

1. Who are the people Darcy babysits for? ( The Fosters)

2.How old is Shana, the youngest Foster child? (2 years old)

3.What job does Darcy have? ( babysitting)