The Babysitter IV is a 1995 young adult suspense

Suspense

Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead-up to a big event or dramatic...

 novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 that was written by the American

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 author

Author

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 R. L. Stine

R. L. Stine

Robert Lawrence Stine , known as R. L. Stine, and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American writer. Stine, who is called the "Stephen King of children's literature," is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the Fear Street, Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, and The...

. It is the sequel and conclusion to the books The Babysitter

The Babysitter (novel)

The Babysitter is a novel by R. L. Stine published in 1989, which led to establish Stine as a prominent author in the children's horror genre. It follows a simple premise of a babysitter who finds she is the next in a series of babysitting victims to a crazed killer...

, The Babysitter II

The Babysitter II

The Babysitter II is a sequel to The Babysitter, a novel by R. L. Stine.-Plot summary:Jenny Jeffers is going through a period of distress and fear, as she has narrowly survived a murder attempt by Mr. Hagen, the crazed father of a babysitting charge, who tried to push her into an abandoned rock...

, and The Babysitter III

The Babysitter III

The Babysitter III is a 1993 young adult suspense novel by the American author, R. L. Stine. It has a sequel, The Babysitter IV.-Plot:...

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Plot

After surviving yet another murder attempt, Jenny Jeffers

Jenny Jeffers

Jenny Jeffers is the main protagonist in the Point Horror Series of young adult suspense/horror novels by the American author R. L. Stine. Jenny would be the character that would form the base for his later works and success...

moves to another town and reluctantly accepts a new baby-sitting job next door in an attempt to finally put her dark past behind her by overcoming her fear. When unexplainable events begin to happen, she begins to fear her dark past has come back to haunt her. However, in an entirely different plot outline, she is terrorized by two murderous ghost children.