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Synopsis Life changes for 14-year-old Enid Crowley when she gets a summer job babysitting Joshua Warwick Cameron IV (who prefers to be called Tom Terrific)--the overprotected four-year-old heir to an enormous fortune. Hoping to open broaden Joshua's horizons, Enid takes him to play at Boston's Public Garden, where they both befriend the eccentrics who hang out there. But when Joshua's parents find out, they charge Enid with kidnapping., Taking her overprotected young charge to the public park to broaden his horizons, fourteen-year-old baby sitter Enid enjoys unexpected friendships with a black saxophonist and a bag lady until she is charged with kidnapping.
| Size | | Length: | 168 pages | | Height: | 7.5 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 4.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "I threw down the book I'd been trying to read, stared out of my bedroom window for a while at the tops of the trees, sighed, and picked up my scratch pad."
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