The Girl with the Silver Eyes (AudioBook Version) Chapters 1 and 2
https://old.bitchute.com/video/tSHB2gY9iO9Z/
I found this really cool Audiobook Edition version of this classic 80's Childrens Book/Novel Called "The Girl with the Silver Eyes" which was uploaded on youtube by this youtuber called "Google Play Books":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTCKCXRGCuk
and so this gave me an idea for a video,which I decided to download the video and add some of my own Bgm/Music to the Video,as well as adding Book Covers to every single version of this classic 80''s Story ^^
This audiobook version is from a recent 2019 Rerelease,but heres the original 80's version of this novel:
https://archive.org/details/girlwithsilverey00will_0/page/2/mode/2up
anyways,Enjoy:P
"Katie Welker is used to being alone. She would much rather read a book than deal with other people. Other people don't have silver eyes and other people can't make things happen just by thinking about them! Sometimes Katie even enjoys playing tricks on people."
"Katie, who has strange powers that make people shun her, attempts to start a new life in another town with her mother. Then Mr. Cooper moves into her apartment building and starts asking too many questions about Katie . . ."
"A 10-year-old girl, who has always looked different from other children, discovers that she not only has unusual powers but that there are others like her."
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Fox Kids
Fox Family Channel
ABC Weekend Special
https://old.bitchute.com/video/tSHB2gY9iO9Z/
I found this really cool Audiobook Edition version of this classic 80's Childrens Book/Novel Called "The Girl with the Silver Eyes" which was uploaded on youtube by this youtuber called "Google Play Books":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTCKCXRGCuk
and so this gave me an idea for a video,which I decided to download the video and add some of my own Bgm/Music to the Video,as well as adding Book Covers to every single version of this classic 80''s Story ^^
This audiobook version is from a recent 2019 Rerelease,but heres the original 80's version of this novel:
https://archive.org/details/girlwithsilverey00will_0/page/2/mode/2up
anyways,Enjoy:P
"Katie Welker is used to being alone. She would much rather read a book than deal with other people. Other people don't have silver eyes and other people can't make things happen just by thinking about them! Sometimes Katie even enjoys playing tricks on people."
"Katie, who has strange powers that make people shun her, attempts to start a new life in another town with her mother. Then Mr. Cooper moves into her apartment building and starts asking too many questions about Katie . . ."
"A 10-year-old girl, who has always looked different from other children, discovers that she not only has unusual powers but that there are others like her."
.........................................................................
Fox Kids
Fox Family Channel
ABC Weekend Special
Category
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FunTranscript
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01:18Captain OG Rebore here. Are you ready for some fun? Come on!
01:40Join us now for the ABC Weekend Special.
01:48The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willow Davis Roberts.
01:53Narrated by Heather Costa.
01:57One.
01:59Katie sat on the small balcony of apartment 2A, looking down over the front sidewalk.
02:05There was no yard, except for a narrow strip of grass between the parking lot and the street.
02:10Nowhere to play.
02:11Her mother had been concerned about that, for though there was a park two blocks away, she did not want Katie to go there alone.
02:19So for the moment, she sat on the balcony, looking through the iron bars that formed the sides of it, and watched the activity in the street.
02:27Katie had always lived in the country, and she had liked that.
02:31This seemed interesting, however, and it was a nice street.
02:36It was wide and shaded with big trees, and most of the time there wasn't a lot of traffic.
02:42Except when people were going to work, of course, the way they were now.
02:45She saw Miss Katzenberger emerge from the front door below, and head toward the street.
02:51Katie hadn't met her yet, but she knew who she was.
02:55She'd seen which apartment she went into, 3B, one floor up, and had looked at the nameplate beside the door.
03:02Miss Katzenberger had red hair, and was quite pretty.
03:06Katie admired pretty people, like Miss Katzenberger, and her mother.
03:10She wasn't pretty herself.
03:13Even if she hadn't had to wear horned-rimmed glasses, she knew that her face was plain.
03:19Her hair was an ordinary color.
03:21A sort of pale tan, that was not quite blonde, and not quite brown.
03:26And as straight as it was possible for hair to be.
03:29When she grew old enough to have a choice, she thought she might like to be redheaded, like Miss K.
03:35Or, her second choice, blonde like her mother.
03:37Hey, Joy, wait a minute!
03:40Katie pressed her face against the cold bars to see who was calling after Miss K.
03:45Oh, him.
03:47She had met Mr. Pollard.
03:49He lived in 3A, right across from Miss K.
03:52And she'd collided with him on the stairs last night, her first whole day at the Cedars apartments.
03:57He had dropped some papers he was carrying, and Katie had stepped on them, after which he had sworn at her.
04:02And then, when she had said nothing except, I'm sorry, and stared at him, Mr. Pollard quickly snatched up his papers and edged around her, almost running the rest of the way down.
04:15The way people often ran away from her, Katie thought.
04:17She'd wondered if it would be different in the city from the way it had been at home, near Delaney.
04:24Oh, they didn't always run, exactly.
04:27But when they looked into her face, they often backed away, muttering things she couldn't understand, and hurried in some other direction.
04:34Mr. Pollard, who was nearly bald on top, even though he wasn't very old yet, didn't see her now.
04:41He caught up with Miss K, and their voices carried clearly to the little balcony over their heads.
04:47I'm afraid I've missed my bus. Could you give me a lift? He asked.
04:51Sure, Miss K agreed. She had a nice voice. I have to pick up my girlfriend, Angie, on the way.
04:58That's okay. Just so I get downtown. I had to stay up for hours last night, redoing all those papers that brat walked on, and I overslept.
05:07Katie tightened her fingers on the bars. It had been just as much his fault as hers that they'd run into each other. He had been running, too.
05:14Why were so many things her fault? They had stopped just a few yards out from the front edge of the balcony.
05:21She could see the tops of their heads, one a beautiful mass of red-gold curls, the other with a few strands of hair combed across the bald spot.
05:31Wait a minute. Have I got my keys? Miss K dug around in her handbag.
05:36What brat are you talking about? The little girl in 2A? I thought she looked like a cute little owl with those glasses.
05:42The quiet type. I doubt if she'll be any trouble. Oh, here they are.
05:48Miss K held up the keys, jingling them. Katie always thought of people by their initials. It was easier, especially when they had names like Katzenberger.
05:57Mr. P shifted his briefcase to the other hand. Did you look at her? At her eyes? Miss K stopped jingling the keys.
06:05No. What about them? They're silver. And they're weird. She's a weird kid.
06:12Silver eyes? Miss K looked at him more closely.
06:16Mr. Pollard, you haven't been drinking, have you? Of course not. Look at the kid the next time you see her. She's got funny eyes, I tell you.
06:23And I thought you were going to call me Hal. They started walking towards the cars in the parking area. Miss K owned a light blue pinto. Katie had seen her get out of it yesterday afternoon.
06:35They were almost there when Mr. P gave a howl of mingled pain and rage and doubled over, grabbing for his ankle. Then he turned and looked back toward the building.
06:46His eyes met Katie's and there was fear and anger in them. He swore again, loudly enough so she could hear it.
06:53I told you, there's something strange about that kid. I nearly broke my ankle. Miss K stared at him in amazement.
07:01Well, I can see that. But what did she have to do with it? You tripped over a rock.
07:07Yeah, yeah, I got hit in the ankle by a rock that wasn't there a few minutes ago. It just sort of, sort of slid right out in the middle of the sidewalk and smacked me.
07:15He was still glaring at Katie as he rubbed at his injured ankle, hopping on one leg, then balancing himself against a light post.
07:25Oh, for heaven's sake, you can't possibly be blaming a child for that.
07:29Miss K unlocked the car door and regarded him in exasperation.
07:33There wasn't any rock on the sidewalk a minute ago, was there? Did you see it a minute ago? Did you ever see a rock on the sidewalk before?
07:40Well, no, Miss K admitted. But they're all around the edges of the flower beds. Something must have knocked one loose.
07:48What? Mr. P demanded. What was near it? It moved just now, just in time to connect with my ankle bone. And she's up there, watching us.
07:58Miss K lifted her gaze to the second floor balcony. For a moment, their eyes locked over the distance between them.
08:04Katie's face didn't change expression. She could see Miss K thinking it over. And then she said,
08:12She's only a cute little girl. Cute? Are we talking about the same kid?
08:17Mr. P turned and stared at her, too, angry and baffled. I don't know how she does it, but there's something about her.
08:23But there's something about her. Well, if you want to ride with me, come on, Miss K said, and they got into the pinto and drove away.
08:32Katie sat, watching two men from the apartment house across the street, men who didn't pay any attention to her.
08:38And then she remembered the rock that was still in the middle of the sidewalk. And she stared at it, very hard, until it began to move.
08:48It slid slowly at first. And then, as Katie's power built up with increased effort, it spurted off the rest of the way and lodged somewhat crookedly in the edge of the flower bed.
08:58Katie had known, long before she learned that by thinking about moving things, she could actually move them, that she was different from other kids.
09:09She knew it partly because the adults around her said so. She had lived with her mother and father until she was nearly four.
09:17And she remembered that, though they had both been kind and affectionate, they had sometimes been puzzled by her behavior.
09:23She never cries, Monica Welker had said, on more than one occasion, when Katie wasn't listening.
09:30I didn't want a fussy baby, but even when she was only an infant, she never cried.
09:35At first, I was terrified that there was something wrong with her. Mentally, I mean.
09:40It wasn't long before we could say that wasn't so, and then she went almost too far the other way.
09:46I mean, Katie's so bright that sometimes she frightens me.
09:49Katie, considering that, thought Monica rather confused.
09:54First, she was afraid her baby was retarded, and then was equally afraid because she was intelligent.
10:01She had, when she was little, called her parents Mama and Daddy.
10:05But now, Monica didn't seem like her mother at all.
10:08Her parents had gotten a divorce when she was three, almost four years old.
10:13And her mother had gone to work and couldn't keep her.
10:16So she'd gone to live with Daddy and Grandma Welker.
10:19But then Daddy had gone away to work somewhere else, and she had lived with just Grandma.
10:24And Grandma, too, thought she was peculiar.
10:26While she lived with Grandma, Monica had come to see her sometimes.
10:31But it was clear Katie made her nervous.
10:34Of course, part of that, Katie realized, was her own fault.
10:38When she knew that some of the things she did were things no other kid she'd ever met could do,
10:44maybe she should have stopped doing them.
10:47At least, where other people could know about them anyway.
10:49But it was like having an itch and not scratching her.
10:53When she wanted to move something, the compulsion was too strong to resist.
10:58Usually, she'd already done it by the time she thought about the consequences.
11:02Like the time her Grandma had hurt her leg, and was muttering about not wanting to leave her Social Security check in the mailbox,
11:09for fear that those nasty Johnson boys would steal it on their way home from school.
11:14They often went along, peeking into everyone's boxes to see what was there.
11:19And more than once, they'd scattered mail in the ditches beside the road.
11:23I don't think I can walk that far, Grandma Welker had said,
11:27rubbing at the knees she'd twisted when she slipped on the cellar steps.
11:31I could go get the check, Katie offered.
11:34No, no, I don't want you to go out there alone in this bad weather.
11:38You know what happened the last time?
11:40The last time, a man had stopped and asked her if she wanted a ride.
11:44He was a perfectly nice man.
11:46Katie knew he was, and she hadn't gotten into the car.
11:48And the man had simply smiled and driven away.
11:52Katie had tried to explain that it was only that he thought she was a long way from home,
11:56and it was cold and rainy, and he was kind.
11:59But Grandma Welker was convinced he was a child molester.
12:03Katie was a little vague about what child molesters actually did,
12:06but she knew it was something unpleasant, and she had sense enough not to get into a car or walk away with a stranger, for heaven's sake.
12:14Grown-ups told you and told you things, and then acted as if you didn't have any brains at all, even when they admitted you were bright.
12:21So, not wanting to upset her grandma, Katie had said no more.
12:26But when the old woman was busy peeling potatoes for supper, Katie sat in the window seat in the dining room and concentrated on the mailbox.
12:34The door of it stuck, and for a few minutes she thought it wasn't going to come open.
12:40But then it did, and she lifted the tan envelope that the government check always came in,
12:45wafted it noiselessly through the air, opened the door, brought it in, and deposited it on the dining room table.
12:52Grandma Welker found it when she came in to set the table.
12:56She let out a sort of yelp, like old Dusty when someone rocked on his tail and almost dropped the plates she was carrying.
13:03Where did that come from? she demanded.
13:06Katie turned from the window seat, pulling her short skirt down over her knees to cover the scabs.
13:12What? she asked innocently.
13:15My check! My social security check!
13:18Katie simply stared at her blankly.
13:19Did the mailman bring it up to the house?
13:23He must have, Katie decided, seeing an easy way out.
13:27Only her grandma couldn't leave it at that.
13:30Did he give it to you? Did he knock on the door?
13:33Katie stared.
13:35She knew it bothered the adults around her, the way she could keep her small face perfectly expressionless.
13:41Yet it seemed the safest thing to do most of the time.
13:44After a moment, her grandma gave up and took the check away,
13:47muttering under her breath.
13:50Maybe, Katie thought, it would have been better to risk having the Johnson boys steal it than to have saved her grandma the walk to the mailbox.
13:58It had taken her a while to learn to be careful about what she moved.
14:01She knew the name for the moving now.
14:04She'd read it in a book.
14:06Telekinesis.
14:08That meant that she was able to move objects from one place to another without touching them.
14:12At first, she hadn't realized that she was the only one who could do it.
14:15But when people got upset or excited about it, it didn't take her long to catch on.
14:22There had been a time when Grandma Welker had been busy in the kitchen and had spoken to Katie over her shoulder.
14:27I need a clean hanky.
14:29Be a good girl.
14:30Run upstairs and get me one out of my top bureau drawer.
14:34And Katie, who was curled in the rocking chair munching on an apple and reading Call of the Wild, paused long enough to slide open the bureau drawer,
14:42mentally search out the handkerchief, and waft the square of linen down the stairs and into Grandma's apron pocket.
14:48Katie, did you hear what I said? Run upstairs. There's a hanky in your pocket, Katie said, spitting out a seed and looking up long enough to see the amazement creep over her Grandma's face when she felt in the apron pocket.
15:03Why, I declare, there wasn't one there a minute ago.
15:08She looked suspiciously at Katie, who was again engrossed in her book.
15:12I could see the edge of it sticking out, Katie said.
15:15Grandma Welker said no more, but the suspicion remained unspoken.
15:20As time went on, this peculiar ability of Katie's made more and more problems between them.
15:26When Katie learned how to turn off the light from the wall switch after she'd gotten into bed and turn the pages of her book without touching them,
15:34she didn't mean to do that when someone was watching her, but sometimes she forgot, and smooth her hair without using the hairbrush, she made Grandma Welker nervous.
15:43Grandma stopped taking her to church after the time the pages of Pastor Gruten's sermon got all mixed up, although Katie hadn't actually had anything to do with that.
15:53A breeze had come in the open window. It was a very hot day, and the pages had slithered off onto the floor, and when he picked them up, they were out of order.
16:02Of course, she had been responsible when Pastor Gruten's hair stood on end and seemed to do an odd little dance.
16:11It had been a long, boring sermon, and Katie, unable to keep her mind on it, had started entertaining herself.
16:17She hadn't thought anyone would notice. She'd also stirred up air currents carrying pollen from a nearby field of ragu, and the people in the congregation had begun to grab for their handkerchiefs.
16:30Pastor Gruten was the sort of preacher who didn't appreciate crying babies during his sermons, nor coughing and sneezing.
16:37He had paused and looked down on his flock, frowning. How could all those people suddenly have to sneeze at the same time?
16:43Just for the fun of it, Katie had shifted the air current then so that the pollen drifted under his own nose, and when he sneezed, Pastor Gruten had to grab for his sermon pages before they sailed off the lectern.
16:57But they didn't actually slide until the next Sunday.
17:00On that day, Katie remembered how suspicious her grandma had been about Pastor's hair standing on end the Sunday before, after the windows had been closed by one of the deacons.
17:09It all came to a head after the service when Grandma had said Katie could stay with old Mrs. Tanner down the road instead of going to church.
17:18Mrs. Tanner was bedridden, and Katie could read to her for an hour and a half a week on Sunday mornings.
17:24Katie didn't mind. She read very well. She had taught herself to read at the age of three, and Mrs. Tanner let her read anything she wanted to.
17:33Katie read her Gentle Ben and The View from the Cherry Tree and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
17:38And Mrs. Tanner fed her oatmeal cookies. They were store-bought and not as good as homemade, but it was a kind thought.
17:46After those fateful Sundays, though she preferred the new arrangement, Katie knew she had to be more careful.
17:53She tried to lull Grandma Welker's suspicions by walking after things and not turning off the light from in bed, unless she was sure her grandma was nowhere about.
18:01It was too late, though. While Grandma Welker didn't come right out and accuse Katie of being a witch, or something worse, it was easy to see that she wasn't comfortable around her.
18:12Mr. and Mrs. Armbruster, the neighbors across the road, made it clear that they didn't want Katie around their place.
18:20Most of the things they blamed on Katie were things she hadn't had a thing to do in, just like when the wind blew past her fruit in sermon pages around.
18:28Things like ripe fruit dropping onto Mr. Armbruster's head could happen to anyone who walked through an orchard at the right time of year.
18:36If he hadn't seen Katie watching him at the time, would he have thought she had anything to do with it?
18:41And she hadn't been the one who opened the gate and let the pigs out into the cornfield that was supposed to be growing silage for Mr. Armbruster's cows.
18:49The Armbruster's had never accused her of being a witch either. But Mr. Armbruster did say, in Katie's hearing, to Pastor Gruden, that he always seemed to be unlucky when that child was around.
19:02Like so many of the people Katie saw regularly, the Armbruster's regarded her as someone to be mildly afraid of. The same was true of the kids at school.
19:11Katie knew she would never be the type who joined in and became a leader of anything. She was good at games, but there was always someone who didn't like the way she played them.
19:23She didn't like balls coming at her hard and fast. Once, when she was a kindergartner, she'd been hidden a face with a softball, and her glasses were broken, and she'd had a black eye.
19:33That was before she learned how to make the ball veer off to one side. She knew that could spoil a game. But somehow, like other things she did, she couldn't help doing it.
19:45When it seemed vital to move something, she moved it. So far, that rock she'd sent out to connect with Mr. P's ankle was the heaviest thing she'd moved.
19:54The power was growing stronger. She was certain of that. Maybe someday she'd be able to move big things, like automobiles or people.
20:04Sitting there on the balcony of the Cedars Apartments, Katie giggled, thinking about moving Mr. P suddenly up the stairs, with his briefcase and his papers flying in all directions.
20:15She'd never dared to do anything like that, but it was amusing to think about.
20:19Katie!
20:20Katie! Monica's voice came through the open sliding glass doors behind her.
20:24Monica wanted Katie to call her Mama, the way she had when she was little.
20:28But so far, Katie couldn't bring herself to do it.
20:31Grandma Welker had always referred to her as Monica, and that's what Daddy had called her too.
20:36And Katie had come to think of her that way.
20:39She was, after six years of living apart, almost a stranger to Katie.
20:44Katie, where are you?
20:46Oh, honey, be careful out there. It's a long way to the ground.
20:50Monica stood in the opening, dressed for work in a smart summer suit of pale blue that made her eyes bluer and her hair more blonde.
20:58There was an anxious expression on her pretty face.
21:01How could I fall off when I'm sitting down behind the bars? Katie asked reasonably.
21:07Are you ready to go?
21:08Yes, the sitter just arrived. Come in and meet her, darling.
21:12I told you, Katie said. I don't need a sitter. I'm almost ten years old now, you know.
21:18Yes, but you're used to living in the country, and it's different in the city. All kinds of things can happen.
21:24I know about child molesters and all that, Katie said with dignity.
21:29And keeping the doors locked and not admitting on the telephone that I'm alone.
21:33I'm not stupid.
21:35No, of course not. But I'll feel better if there's someone here with you.
21:39So indulge your old mother, will you? And put up with her?
21:43Katie got up off the floor of the balcony and went inside, sighing.
21:48It was so silly, and a needless expense, too, to have a sitter for someone who was nearly ten.
21:54Especially when she knew Monica really couldn't afford it.
21:57She'd already admitted this apartment was the best she could manage, and she'd have to cut down on something else to pay for it.
22:04Not that there was anything wrong with the apartment. It was very nice.
22:08Only it was small.
22:10Monica had been living in a one-bedroom place, which was cheaper, and had had to find this one in a hurry when Grandma Welker died.
22:17Katie's bedroom was so little, there was only room for a single bed, a dresser, and a tiny desk.
22:23But it was considered a two-bedroom apartment.
22:26The pantry at Grandma's had been larger than Katie's new bedroom.
22:30Some of the closets had been almost as large.
22:33Mrs. Hornecker, this is my daughter Katie, Monica was saying brightly.
22:37Katie, this is the sitter, Mrs. Hornecker.
22:40Katie took one look at Mrs. H, and knew she was going to hate her.
22:46Two.
22:48Mrs. Hornecker was tall and thin, and had very large feet.
22:53She also had a wart on her chin with two hairs sticking out of it.
22:57Katie stared at the wart, fascinated.
23:01She had never seen anything so ugly on a human face.
23:04Does it hurt? she asked.
23:07Monica, her hand on the doorknob, paused to look back.
23:10Does what hurt? Mrs. H asked.
23:13She had a voice that sounded as if it were rising through gravel.
23:17The wart, Katie said.
23:19Mrs. H's face got red, and Monica made a strangled sound.
23:23Katie, for Pete's sake, it isn't polite to say things like that.
23:28Mrs. H cleared her throat, but her voice still sounded gravelly.
23:32You go on to work, Mrs. Welker.
23:34I'll handle the little girl.
23:36Monica scuttled through the opening, glad to escape.
23:39Mrs. H stared down on Katie, as if deciding whether to eat her fried or boiled.
23:44You're old enough to have better manners than that, Mrs. H said.
23:48To make remarks about things like warts?
23:51Are you supposed to give me lessons in manners? Katie asked.
23:55I think you were just hired to sit me, which I don't need.
23:59I'm quite capable of taking care of myself.
24:01Let's get one thing straight right now, Mrs. H told her.
24:05I don't stand for no sass.
24:07Your ma said you were a little bit difficult, but I don't think you're any match for me.
24:12Don't you? Katie thought.
24:14Well, they'd see about that.
24:16She suspected she was more than a match for Mrs. H, and she tried not to be hurt about Monica saying she was difficult.
24:23How was she difficult?
24:24Your ma said you ain't had your breakfast yet.
24:27I'll get it, Mrs. H said, and stomped on her enormous feet into the kitchen.
24:32I believe in kids taking responsibilities, she said.
24:36Suppose while I'm cooking you set the table.
24:38I had to be here so early I didn't eat yet either, so set two places.
24:42Katie said nothing.
24:44She stood in the doorway, not moving, while the sitter looked into the refrigerator.
24:48Mrs. H got out eggs and butter and jam, and a package of sausages, and then she opened the freezer and found a can of frozen orange juice.
24:57After a few minutes, she turned crossly from what she was doing to say,
25:01I told you to set the table, miss.
25:03It said, Katie said.
25:06Her eyes had a silvery gleam behind her glasses, and she knew it was true that she did look rather like an owl with those horn rims.
25:13You ain't moved from that spot, Mrs. H began, and then stopped, for the table had two plastic plates, juice glasses, and silverware on it.
25:23For the first time, the sitter seemed uncertain.
25:26You forgot the napkins, she said, though not as if they mattered very much.
25:31Katie could almost see the workings of the sitter's mind, wondering how she'd managed to set the table without moving.
25:38Your ma set the table before she left?
25:40Katie didn't answer.
25:42She'd learned it was disconcerting to grown-ups if you didn't answer.
25:46She waited until Mrs. H reached out with a fork to turn the sausages,
25:50then whisked a pair of paper napkins from the holder on the counter to a place beside each plate.
25:56One of them was still moving when the sitter turned toward Katie in the formica-topped table.
26:01Mrs. H swallowed and dropped the fork.
26:04It didn't fall onto the floor, however, but drifted slowly toward the counter and came to a rest beside the electric frying pan.
26:11All the color washed out of Mrs. H's face, and Katie watched a tremor begin at her lips and then spread to her hands.
26:19For a moment, neither of them spoke.
26:21Katie's small face was blank.
26:23She knew perfectly well she was taking the risk.
26:27The idea of having Mrs. H for a sitter all summer, until it was time to go back to school, was more than she could bear.
26:33She had to get rid of her at once, today.
26:37Mrs. H moistened her lips.
26:39Where have you been?
26:41She asked carefully.
26:42These years, you weren't living with your mom.
26:44Locked up, mostly, Katie said.
26:47It was partly true.
26:49Grandma Welker had taken to locking her in at night, sometimes, until she found out that it didn't work.
26:55That somehow the key would turn in the lock, or the bar would slide back, even if they were not within Katie's reach, but on the other side of the door.
27:03Mrs. H was very pale.
27:05She'd forgotten about eating.
27:07Katie, however, was hungry.
27:09She decided not to overdo things by causing the sausages and eggs to come to her across the kitchen.
27:15So she walked over and got her own, leaving some for the sitter.
27:19Besides, she was afraid the loaded plate might be too heavy for her to hold in the air and would fall on the floor.
27:25She had forgotten to bring the toast, however.
27:28It popped up just as the telephone rang.
27:30Mrs. H turned her head, and the toast leaped out of the toaster and sailed across the kitchen.
27:35Mrs. H would not have noticed, except that one slice missed its mark.
27:40Instead of landing on Katie's plate, it hit the edge of the table and fell with a little scuffling sound to the floor.
27:46The telephone continued to ring, and Mrs. H fled to answer it.
27:51Katie ate her breakfast, all of it, and the sitter had not yet come back.
27:56She wondered if she ought to let well enough alone, or if something more was needed to assure that Mrs. H would not return tomorrow.
28:04She decided to wait and see what happened.
28:07In the meantime, she would find out if there was anyone in the swimming pool.
28:11She'd been told she must not ever swim unless there was someone with her.
28:15She tried to picture Mrs. H in a bathing suit, and her usually solemn face cracked in a grin.
28:22The little balcony in front was a private one, not connected to the one for 2B.
28:28However, there was a railed deck that ran around the inside of the building, overlooking the pool, and everyone in the apartment had access to that.
28:36Katie went out onto the deck, and stood looking down into the bright blue water.
28:41There was no one swimming.
28:43She hadn't really thought there would be this time of day, although it was already getting quite hot in the sun.
28:49She wondered if there were any kids living here besides herself.
28:53She'd asked Monica when she arrived, night before last, but Monica had only lived there herself for a week.
28:59She didn't know anybody yet. Katie sat down, cross-legged, Indian fashion.
29:07Maybe I am more fairy than vampire.
29:10You're the perfect mix of both.
29:13Isadora Moon is half fairy, and half vampire, and 100% uniquely herself.
29:22Isn't this amazing?
29:24Whoa!
29:25I think Robert and I are making something special.
29:29Thanks, Mom.
29:30Thanks, Dad.
29:31Isadora Moon.
29:33Stream now on knowledgekids.ca.
29:39It all started at the very beginning of 7th grade.
29:42Hi, we're the Babysitter's Club.
29:44Call us if you need us. Bye!
29:46What if you could, like, make one phone call and reach a whole bunch of good sitters at the same time?
29:51Are you sure this thing actually works?
29:53The Etsy shop I bought it from said it's fully operational.
29:56Yeah, but it's 25 years old.
29:58It's iconic.
30:00Oh, my God!
30:02Good afternoon, Babysitter's Club.
30:05This is Christy Thomas, president and founder, speaking.
30:08Christy, I know how much you like to be in control.
30:12What about Watson?
30:13It's gonna be a part of your family whether you like it or not.
30:16I'd rather have head lice.
30:18Again.
30:19I'm Dawn.
30:20I just moved here from L.A.
30:21I'm chill, but I don't back down from a challenge.
30:24Hey!
30:25Uh-oh.
30:26Someone needs a diaper change.
30:28Do you know him?
30:29Grounding breath.
30:31It's me, Claudia Kishi.
30:33I'm good at a lot of things.
30:35Most of all, I'm good at art.
30:37The Tootsie Roll Pop is very compelling.
30:40We have to celebrate.
30:41Hey, guys!
30:42Watermelon gummies!
30:44Hey, I'm Stacy.
30:46I've gotta get his attention.
30:47What are you gonna do?
30:48Pretend to drown?
30:49Do you think that would work?
30:52We need to differentiate ourselves from the competition.
30:54I can figure out the best ratio of click-throughs to investment.
30:57I'm pretty good at math.
30:59Whoa.
31:00Hi.
31:01I'm Marianne.
31:02Talking to people I don't know makes my stomach fall out of my nose.
31:07You're hilarious.
31:08People who barely know me always say that.
31:12That you're learning about yourselves and the way you want to be in the world.
31:19I know it's hard, but we're here.
31:22You are such a strong woman, Christy.
31:33I started the Babysitter's Club to take care of kids.
31:36But what I realized, we were more than a club.
31:40We were best friends.
31:42Babysitter's Club!
31:44What you want?
31:47What you want?
31:49What you want?
31:51What you want?
31:56Whoa!
31:57There's a whole new thing happening on NBC Saturday morning!
32:00Here we go!
32:01This isn't a Saturday morning you're used to seeing!
32:03Cause it's not just for kids anymore!
32:06Check this out!
32:08Camp Candy!
32:09Captain Anne!
32:10The Game Master.
32:11What's so funny?
32:13The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3!
32:15Yeah!
32:16Rick Moranis in Gravedale High!
32:18Uh-huh!
32:19Get in place!
32:20Get mine!
32:22Here comes a Kung Fu Master from outer space!
32:25Well Kung Fu Sock, it's time for Super-Fu!
32:28Kung Fu Girl!
32:29Crash Mask!
32:31And when ZZ puts on the sock, she gains super powers!
32:35Take how many moves!
32:36You can go out so fast!
32:37You won't want to miss out on this!
32:39This is so cool!
32:40The light of wisdom!
32:41Glitter Diamond!
32:42You creature of darkness!
32:43You can't just go around destroying people's hopes and memories!
32:45My diamond power will make you see the light!
32:47Glitter Diamond!
32:48Well, partner?
32:49Partner?
32:50He-he-he!
32:51He-he!
32:52He-he!
32:53He-he!
32:54He-he!
32:55He-he!
32:56Hey!
32:57Five!
32:58The!
32:59The!
33:00Guys next door!
33:01Ha-ha-ha-ha!
33:02Saturday morning videos!
33:03A.M. Saturday, NBC!
33:04Here we go!
33:05Next Saturday!
33:06He-he!
33:07He-he!
33:08He-he!
33:09He-he!
33:10He-he!
33:11Hey!
33:12Five!
33:13The!
33:14The!
33:15Guys next door!
33:16He-he!
33:17Saturday morning videos!
33:18A.M. Saturday, NBC!
33:19Here we go!
33:20Next Saturday!