The Babysitter II
Polly Esther Rayon
eBook
(, March 14, 2020)
Piper the witch, in one final attempt to destroy the twins, makes it count: she sends them back in time to the Salem Witch Trials! Jessica and Elizabeth think they’re going on a field trip to see how the Puritans lived. But after the bus goes through a spooky tunnel, the twins black out and awake in a strange new world: a hybrid of Saccharin Valley and Salem Village. The townsfolk are eerily similar to their own family, classmates and teachers, and are immediately suspicious who look exactly alike but are different people. Now the twins must find Piper’s magic pocket watch before they end up on trial for witchcraft themselves!Did this need to be written? Well, too late. (Now I’ve gotten all of this horror-parody mashup completely out of my system.) Borrows a smidge from Book #54, The Big Party Weekend, then goes completely off the rails. As always, this isn’t really a kid’s book. The original series was aimed at preteen girls, where the twins are twelve. So there’s no blatant sexuality or violence, because it follows the rules of the original series. But there may be some some adult language, dark humor, and “magical” violence.