The Give Yourself Goosebumps book where you have an evil babysitter.
"Your" mother has hired a babysitter for you and your brother. The thing is, she isn't human, and works for a company that is testing a new and dangerous game product.
Attack of the Beastly Babysitter provides examples of:
- Animal Motifs: Rats. Zoe's race are rat-human hybrids that originated as rats, Zoe has a rat tattoo in human form, and you and your brother are in danger of becoming rat-humans yourselves. One of Dare's tattoos is also a rat, one of his games involves escaping from a rat-shaped maze. Rats feature in several bad endings too.
- Animated Tattoo: One storyline sees you stuck with a guy who has these and can, of course, use them as weapons and possibly kill you. One of the good endings involves you defeating him by destroying the main tattoo in the middle of his chest.
- Animorphism: There are endings where you turn into rats. However, you can reach a good ending where you are only a rat for a short time and you turn back once the creatures have the saliva sample from you they wanted.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: "Stinko", who constantly annoys your player character.
- Anti-Frustration Feature: If you don't have the cassette tape when you need it, the book tells you where to find it the next time you try to survive the story.
- Anti-Villain: In one storyline, Zoe's race got you through false pretences, but only because they need your help, and they let you go as soon as you've done your part.
- Babysitter from Hell: The premise for the story.
- Be the Ball: In one ending you get sucked up through a tube you are then coated in plastic turning you into a plastic ball and you presumably stay in the ballpit forever.
- Covers Always Lie: The cover depicts her as a humanoid rat when she arrives but in the book she is just a normal looking, if a bit mousy, woman. Plus, in the book she has more human features even in rat form.
- The Dog Bites Back: If Stinko escapes from being frozen in ice before you (and Dare) he will taunt you and then leave you frozen, as payback for all the times you've picked on him.
- Foul Ball Pit: The "Bottomless Ball Pit", which can turn you into an animal... or a ball.
- Intercontinuity Crossover: One of the titular beasts from The Beast from the East shows up in the story.
- Luck-Based Mission: There is a spinner in the back of the book that initially decides which of the two main storylines you will follow: "Fun" or "Games". If you get Games, rather than letting you make choices, a lot of the paths are decided by actual games such as flipping a coin or rolling a dice, etc. You also have to use the spinner at other points in the storyline.
- No Fair Cheating: The maze does this, telling you that you would have known that was the wrong exit if you'd bothered to do the maze and you end up buried in rats.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: "Stinko". He's the reader's younger brother, but the book never reveals his real name.
- Painful Transformation: A standout example, where Zoe and the other rat people are constantly shifting between giant rat and human form. They want you because you can help cure it. It's explicitly called agonizing.
- Rodents of Unusual Size: Zoe's race, a man-sized rat/person hybrid.
