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Mom Jo & Dad Sam have a night out. Together with Miranda & Gordo, Lizzie is "home alone" baby-sitting her little brother Matt. During the night, someone tries to break into the house. They are sure he is a burglar, and so they call the police for help. Before the police arrives, they have to find ways to stop the burglar from breaking in. Using her imagination, Lizzie turns toys into weapons.

Lizzie McGuire

Lizzie is sure that she is just the same age as Kate, that she is just as mature as Kate is, and that she is responsible. She talks mom & dad into letting her baby-sit 10-year-old Matt. This is her first ever baby-sitting job, and she goes through a night of adventures. She shows everyone that she is 13 years old, that she is old enough to trust, and that she is a reliable baby-sitter. Most important of all, she shows everyone she is the one in charge.

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Miranda Sanchez

At school, Miranda gets an assignment to imagine the perfect town. She imagines Boring-ville, USA. It is a town where schools come up with moronic assignments. She knows baby-sitting jobs are hard to get, because parents want mature baby-sitters. She thinks Kate gets to baby-sit because she is stacked. To Miranda, girls deserve a monopoly on baby-sitting. She decides to join Lizzie to baby-sit Matt at the McGuire house.

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Gordo

Gordo confirms that he does live in a boring suburb, where all the houses look alike and everyone is predictable. He thinks baby-sitting sounds like a pretty sweet gig. To him, Kate gives off visual signals which imply a biologically nurturing capability. He agrees with Miranda that Kate is stacked. He disagrees with Miranda that girls have a monopoly on baby-sitting. He decides to muscle in for a share of the green dollar bills.

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Dad Sam

To Sam, Matt can be quite a handful. If Lizzie baby-sits Matt, she will not be able to handle him. Still, he agrees to give it a try. Before he goes off for dinner with Jo, he tells Lizzie not to open the door for anybody. He also tells her they are trusting her, but he is only pretending. Then, he decides to leave Jo in the restaurant and goes off to spend the night in misadventures.

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Kate

Kate wants to buy a copy of Cyber Townmaker, a software that designs cities & towns. She is supposed to use her imagination to do the Perfect Town Design assignment, and she wants to do it on a computer. The computer software costs sixty bucks, but she can easily afford it. She baby-sat twice the week before, and she has more money than she needs.

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Little Brother Matt, Mum Jo

Matt gets baby-sat by Lizzie, for the first time in his life. He knows Lizzie wants mom & dad to think she is a good baby-sitter. He decides to show her who is really in charge, and so he won't do a thing she says. Jo has a night out with Sam. She spends most of the night sitting in a restaurant waiting for him. She hears that this is no way for a man to treat a lady.

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** Materials developed and written by Dr. Terence Lo from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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