While Esme's best friend is Janis, an awkward girl who owns a pit bull, Cassandra is much more sure of herself and confident, and Esme soon discovers that the newcomer is involved with aspects of the supernatural, having received a note telling her to seek out the babysitting club for help. Esme is surprised when Cassandra Heaven, who is physically attractive, a rebel and a grungy dresser, shows interest in joining the club. This leads to concern that Esme herself might suffer from the same issues when strange occurrences happen around her, such as a drink spilling on a " chauvinist" in the school cafeteria and a bully being harmed in gym class. Esme's mother, who lives in a long-term care facility, is mentally ill. Plot Įsme Pearl is a nonconformist and suburban Kansas teenager who heads a babysitting club to avoid the prospect of obtaining a paid job, which she finds "gross", and also to earn money to pay back a variety of people for various incidents, including the destruction of a tree.
It is the first title in Williams's "The Babysitters Coven" book series, and was followed by a sequel, For Better or Cursed (2020) and a third instalment, Spells Like Teen Spirit (2021).
The Babysitters Coven was later bought up for reprinting by Penguin Random House. The book received mixed to negative reviews from critics, owing largely to what was viewed as excessive political commentary, outdated slang and the abrasive personality of the protagonist.
Originally published in hardcover by Delacorte Press, the book follows Esme Pearl, an edgy, social justice-fixated teenager, and her friends as they team up to fight a latent evil descending upon their suburban American town. The Babysitters Coven is a 2019 American young adult fantasy coming-of-age novel by Kate Williams, written as a parody of the 1990s book series The Babysitter's Club by Ann M.
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