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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"...As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer--his 'Keltjin potatoes' are justifiably famous--has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all, can love can really overcome the boundaries of race and class? With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam's second novel is both heartfelt and thought-provoking."--Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere...From the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
North Archer, Andie Miller's ex-husband, asks her to become the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already--and live in a haunted house! What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fiancé. And just when Andie thinks things couldn't get more complicated, North shows up...
9) Martha, no!
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mischievous Martha Felicity Molly-Anne May challenges the best efforts of her latest nanny, Miss Harrington-Chive, during a sequence of outings at a park, a museum, and at formal tea.
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Green announces his diabolical plan to remarry, his children are horrified at the thought of losing their beloved Nanny Piggins.
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2010
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.
Author
Series
Emmy and the rat volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2008
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
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Newly orphaned seventeen-year old Marin accepts a nanny position for an acclaimed horror writer and her mother's childhood friend, but she soon realizes all is not well at Lovelace House and must unravel its secrets before they consume her.
14) Hidden pictures
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted mystery 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 in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory...
Author
Series
Mary Poppins volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc
Pub. Date
[1943]
Language
English
Description
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family in a rocket and involves the Banks children in more magical adventures including those with Peppermint Horses, the Marble Boy, and the Cat that Looked at the King.
17) Mrs. England
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1904 West Yorkshire, Ruby May accepts a nanny position to look after the children of a wealthy couple, hoping it will be the fresh start she needs, but instead finds a series of strange events, forcing her to question everything she thought she knew.
Author
Series
Cedar Springs romances volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Jane Aaron comes to Cedar Springs in search of her birth mother and is hired by widower Asher Price to care for his two children, but as unexpected romance blossoms between them, Jane discovers a secret that could tear them apart.
Author
Series
Lorraine Fisher novels volume 1
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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