Books in the Thirty Somethings Babysitters Club

A child sits on the floor screaming and a caretaker sits on the couch yelling.
All the baby-sitters are grownup and . . . still babysitting? Makes sense—they’re millennials and will never own houses or have job security (except for Stacey who became an engineer and does not appear in this new series).

“Kristy’s Great Idea

After failing to make more than twelve dollars from selling clothes to Buffalo Exchange, thirty-year-old Kristy decides to post on Instagram, offering her services as a babysitter. Honestly, who wouldn’t want a thirty-year-old instead of their thirteen-year-old neighbor? It’s fine! It’s smart! It’s a business decision, nothing to get too worked up over.

“Dawn and the Sickest Dog”

Dawn takes a gig dog-sitting her friend’s boss’s girlfriend’s very old schnauzer. Shouldn’t be a problem, right? Wrong. Snoodle needs eye drops every other hour and pills on the alternating hour. Can Dawn get her grocery shopping and taxes done without killing this very old dog? And how many times will she have to clean the white rug?

“Claudia and the Bittiest Baby”

Claudia babysits an actual baby for the first time! She’s super excited because babies are so cute! But then, while manically singing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” for the fourteenth time as the baby wails for no discernible reason, Claudia starts to realize that the parents of the bitty baby are younger than her. And not in a teen-parent kind of way. In a “my friends had babies at a normal time but I didn’t and now I’m babysitting their babies rather than taking care of my own” kind of way.

“Mary Anne Gets a Boyfriend”

“Feel Better, Abby!”

“Claudia Tries Online Therapy”

“Happy Thirty-First Birthday, Dawn!”

Dawn turns thirty-one! All the girls want to celebrate with her, but she’s babysitting the night of her actual birthday. Can anyone do drinks on Saturday? Kristy can, but Mary Anne’s boyfriend is sick, so she probably can’t. Claudia can, but she’s watching that old dog, so she can only swing by for an hour—maybe they can do dinner another time?

“Baby-Sitter Brawl”

While Abby is sick at home, Mary Anne takes over one of her regular gigs, picking up a ten-year-old from school and taking her to soccer. But when the ten-year-old tells her mom that she prefers Mary Anne to Abby, the baby-sitters clash over who has the best babysitting style.

“Fairy Tale of New York”

Kristy does a house-sitting exchange with another single thirtysomething woman in New York, named Lucia. It’s a dream come true—just like the movie “The Holiday”! That is, until Kristy realizes that Lucia’s New York apartment doesn’t come with a hot man to fall in love with . . . or air-conditioning or an elevator. Instead, it’s infested with cockroaches.

“Claudia Bites the Bullet”

Forced to reckon with the truth that she can’t afford to live in the big city and still pursue her dreams, Claudia decides to move back in with her parents for a little while. But, once she’s back in her small Connecticut home town, she comes to the terrifying realization that she’s only qualified to do one thing: babysit.

“Abby Fights a Teen”

After losing turf to Mary Anne, Abby starts knocking on doors to drum up more babysitting gigs. On her hunt, Abby encounters a precocious teen, Harper, who doesn’t like the idea of an adult woman scooping up the babysitting jobs that she worked so hard to find. A slap battle ensues. ♦