# Henry Reed's Babysitting Service

**Author:** Keith Robertson
**Grade range:** Grades 4–6
**Age range:** 9–11
**First published:** 1966
**Page count:** 204
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780670368259`
**ISBN-10:** `0140341463`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/henry-reeds-babysitting-service
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Back in Grover's Corners, N.J., for the summer, Henry and his partner Midge establish a baby sitting service and find a disappearing child and a peacock among their charges.

## Themes

- babysitters
- diaries
- babysitters, fiction
- new jersey, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Nēnē Award (Hawai'i)

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Hawaii — [source: Nēnē Award (Hawai'i) — Hawaii's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 4-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.neneaward.org/winners.html)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Hawaii — [source: Nēnē Award (Hawai'i) — Hawaii's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 4-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.neneaward.org/winners.html)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Hawaii — [source: Nēnē Award (Hawai'i) — Hawaii's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 4-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.neneaward.org/winners.html)

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