
The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting
Candlewick Press · Print & ebook · January 7, 2025
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- Who it’s for
- Assassin-world danger gets an offbeat counterpoint in babysitting, high school, and the work of being known.
- Themes
- Power and identity, Found family, Trust
- Pacing
- Fast
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"Parker breathes new life into the assassin genre, seamlessly combining the action and world-building of John Wick with themes of power, found family, and what it means to step into the light and truly be yourself."—Rebecca Coffindaffer, author of Crownchasers Tru has been hiding all her life. Her parents taught her to conceal her bastion Talent: indestructible skin, muscles, and bones.
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In a world where Talents are common and varied, no one trusts a bastion—they’re too powerful. Hiding failed to keep Tru’s parents alive, but moments before their murder, Tru’s mom pointed her to Logan Dire, a famed recluse assassin who adopted and trained orphaned Tru. At seventeen, she’s still hiding. Not even her closest friends know her true name or Talent, or that she’s balancing high school with knife and stealth training (while crushing on her BFF’s older sister). When assassins interrupt a mundane babysitting job booked through BountyApp—where lethal hunters find work and babysitters for their kids—Tru flees with a one-year-old strapped to her chest and spiraling questions: Who killed her parents? Whom can she trust? What does it mean to be a bastion? And is it ever OK to kiss a girl who’s trying to hunt you down? From an award-winning author comes a masterfully plotted thriller that holds character and relationship on a par with action and nail-biting suspense.
Knives and Caregiving
Assassin-world danger gets an offbeat counterpoint in babysitting, high school, and the work of being known.
Come here for
- A lethal world with an unexpectedly domestic side
- A hidden Talent and a crush tangled up with danger
Expect
- Action and relationship questions sharing the spotlight
- Suspense shaped by trust, identity, and found family
Where it sits
| YA Romance - LGBTQ+ | 59% |
|---|---|
| Thrillers & Suspense | 46% |
| Coming of Age | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Alternative Family Stories
- YA LGBTQ+
- YA Supernatural Thrillers
- Authors
- Natalie C. Parker
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- January 7, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Power and identity · Found family · Trust
- Reading lane
- YA Alternative Family Stories