My Babysitter is a Vampire

Series · 6 books · 1991-1995

By Ann Hodgman

Books in series

My Babysitter Is a Vampire

1991

When she sees the sickly-looking, pale boy dressed in black and carrying what appears to be a coffin, Meg writes him off as "just another weird New Yorker on vacation". Imagine her surprise when she finds out that the boy, is the new babysitter for her and her brother, Trevor. Gradually Meg and Trevor learn the truth: their babysitter really is a vampire!

My Babysitter Has Fangs

1992

REVENGE OF THE VAMPIRE After last year's spooky summer on Moose Island, Meg Swain believes that Vincent the vampire is gone for good. But that's before the black sand washes up on the beach from nowhere, and before Meg finds a strange ring with a glowing red stone. When her new neighbor Kelly Pitts, alias Pittsy, starts dating a mysterious boy names Victor Grable, Meg gets a strong feeling that her coffin-carrying teenage babysitter has returned! Could he really be back - and is he turning Pittsy into a vampire too? It's up to Meg and her friend Jack to save the island from an angry vampire and to send him - at last - to his timely end!

My Babysitter Bites Again

1993

BABYSITTERS BEWARE! Last summer on Moose Island, Meg Swain and her brother Trevor had a vampire babysitter named Vincent Graver. They got rid of him - twice. They finally feel safe - until Meg and her friend Kelly babysit a baby who dislikes sunshine, loves bats, and insists on dressing all in black - just like Vincent! As a strange statue in front of the baby's house starts to look more and more threatening, Meg really gets worried. Could Vincent be trying be come back? Can she save the baby from the fangs of the vampire?

My Babysitter Flies by Night

1994

In the sequel to My Babysitter Is a Vampire, thirteen-year-old Meg must escape the clutches of the pallid, pointy-toothed foreign exchange student and drive out the weird force that has invaded her home. Original.

My Babysitter Goes Bats

1994

Meg Swain and her family are staying at a creepy old inn in the weird country of Drazylvonia. Her family's on vacation—but Meg's on a mission. It's nothing too complicated: She just has to pick a sprig of death's-head thyme and deliver it at nearby Castle Vladestan! Meg would rather be skiing. But if she doesn't complete her errand, her blood-sucking ex-babysitter, Vincent Graver, has sworn that she will be the next vampire in Drazylvonia... Now Meg, her friend Voldar, and "Batboy," an injured baby bat who needs her help, are heading for the vampire castle—on the most dangerous adventure of their lives!

My Babysitter is a Movie Monster

1995

Barely surviving an attack by a vampire, Meg Swain writes down her adventures and is surprised when her father uses them as the plot for a new movie, but while helping out on location, Meg encounters a new enemy

Author

Ann Hodgman

Author · 26 books

Ann Hodgman (born 1956) is an American author of more than forty children's books as well as several cookbooks and humor books and many magazine articles. Ann was raised in Rochester, New York and graduated from Harvard College, where she was a staff member on the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Advocate. She was the food columnist for the magazines Spy and Eating Well. Her essay "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch," about taste-testing various dog foods, was included in "Best American Essays." Hodgman is also known for her three cookbooks, Beat This!, Beat That! and One Bite Won't Kill You. She is the author of the 6-book vampire series My Babysitter is a Vampire and the nonfiction memoir "The House of a Million Pets." Hodgman is married to author David Owen, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and they have two children, Laura and John.