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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a supernatural thriller about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living...
Author
Series
Women of Lancaster County volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amish-raised Ada Rupp falls in love with Amish widower Will Gundy and agrees to act as his daughter's nanny on a trip to Europe, but when Mennonite scholar Daniel Hart asks for her help, she is torn between the two men.
Author
Language
English
Description
When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by the luxurious "smart" home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into...
Author
Series
DJ Funkyfoot volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
DJ Funkyfoot may have a name fit for a hip-hop star, but as a dog butler desperate to find a job, he takes a job as a nanny watching over a ShrubBaby that loves chaos.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Emmy wants to be an ordinary girl, but the evil nanny Miss Barmy, now a rat, has trapped five of her former charges and when she uses them to steal jewels belonging to Emmy's parents, it is up to Emmy, Joe, and their rodent friends to stop her.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Green, a stingy widower with three children he cannot be bothered with, decides to find a nanny for his children, he winds up hiring a glamorous ex-circus pig who knows nothing about children but a lot about chocolate.
7) Nanny McPhee
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly, but Brown's raucous rugrats have a plan to make things right, especially...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Anna Cicconi's summer gig in the Hamptons village of Herron Mills as a nanny is supposed to be a fresh start. But the community has been on edge since Zoe Spanos, a local girl, disappeared New Year's Eve. Anna's resemblance to Zoe causes her to delve into Zoe's life. She becomes increasingly convinced that she and Zoe are connected-- and that she knows what happened to her. When Zoe's body is found in a nearby lake, Anna is charged with manslaughter....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A collection of the the first four tales featuring the nanny who blew into the Banks family, changing it forever.
Mary Poppins: An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.
Mary Poppins comes back: Mary Poppins comes back on the end of a kite string, stays with the Banks family for a while, and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In Disney's "Mary Poppins Returns," an all new sequel with a fresh sensibility that celebrates the spirit of the original, Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family find the joy and wonder missing in their lives.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Stanley Darrow isn't sure what to expect when the mysterious Mr. Gedrick appears on his doorstep. He is certain, however, that his family could use Mr. Gedrick's help: Their lives and their house have been a mess since Stanley's dad died. The strange new nanny quickly helps them transform their cluttered home into a sparkling and spotless version of its former self, but it's going to take more than a clean house to help the Darrow family learn to...
12) The McNifficents
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lord Tennyson, a senior miniature Schnauzer employed as a distinguished nanny to a chaotic family of six children, has one summer to get his charges to learn to behave.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Hiring Zoe to help her around the house as she prepares for her baby's arrival, Claudia Morgan-Brown discovers that there is something off about Zoe and, after learning about a series of vicious attacks on pregnant women in the area, worries that her own life is in danger.
15) Hatching magic
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Adopted as an infant, Jane Aaron longs to know the identity of her birth mother and why she gave her up. Her only clue is the name of the small Texas town where she was born, so she's come to Cedar Springs for answers. Handsome ad executive Asher Price lost his wife, the beautiful, mysterious Susanna, in a terrible car crash eighteen months ago. When he hires Jane as the nanny for his two children, sparks fly. Jane finds herself falling in love with...
17) Mary Poppins
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An English nanny with magical abilities takes over the household of a proper London banker and changes the lives of everyone.
Author
Series
Canadian crossings volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of World War I, Grace hopes to reclaim her nephew, Christian, from the relatives who rejected her sister because of her class. Under an alias, she goes to Toronto and becomes her orphaned nephew's nanny. Observing the family up close, she begins to fall for Andrew Easton, the boy's guardian. Andrew is promised to a spoiled socialite who is sure to make a terrible stepmother. Can Grace protect her nephew... and her heart?
Author
Publisher
Macmillian Young Listeners
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Nanny Mcphee magically keeps things on course when Mr. Green goes off to fight in the war and the rest of the family bides time in the country where they face an invasion of their own from a wicked uncle and the nasty cousins.
Author
Publisher
The Borough Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On the surface, Anna Witherall has the perfect life. Married to her university boyfriend David, she has an enviable job, beautiful home, and gorgeous three-year-old twin daughters, Stella and Rose. Their competent and capable nanny, Maria, is practically part of the family. But beneath the veneer of success and happiness, Anna is hiding a dark secret, one that threatens to unravel everything she has worked so hard to create. Only one thing is certain:...
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