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The ever-suspicious students at Bailey School lose control of their imaginations again when they meet new school nurse Mrs. Redding, who they come to believe is a Martian spying on Earth kids.

The Bailey School kids find their imaginations running wild when yet another strange-looking individual joins the education staff, this time in the personage of bus driver Mr. Stone, who resembles the city library's sixth gargoyle.

Mrs. Jeepers is taking her class to a science museum. But when they stumble onto a secret lab, it looks like the real science is going on behind the scenes! The curator, Dr. Victor, has a helper named Frank. Frank is tall, scarred, and likes to spend time in the greenhouse with his flowers—just like the creature in the book Liza just read. But Frank couldn't really be Frankenstein's monster, could he?

At the beginning of the new school year, all the children at Bailey Elementary must get their eyes checked by a doctor, and a rumor spreads that Dr. Polly is really a Cyclops stalking the people of Bailey City.

Losing game after game during softball season, the Bailey Batters wonder if their eccentric coach, who is continually wearing bandages because of many injuries, is really a mummy and has placed a curse on them.

Visiting Ruby Mountain during a class trip, Eddie spots enormous tracks on the dirt trail and becomes convinced that the prints belong to the square-dancing teacher, a large, hairy man who resembles Bigfoot.

Puzzles accompany the story of a visit to Rock Castle State Park, where the students in Mrs. Jeepers's class suspect that their vampire teacher plans to use her magic brooch to bring the rocks to life as monsters.

Hungarian American biochemist Katalin Kati Karikó became fascinated by science as a child and grew up determined to find a way to use messenger RNA—a copy of a part of DNA that provides cells with instructions to make proteins—to help fight illness. An mRNA vaccine had never been made before, and she faced frequent criticism and was told by other scientists she would never succeed. Karikó refused to give up her research, and when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, she played a critical role in developing the successful Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine faster than any other vaccine in history.

Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones present Book 2 in the Bailey School Kids Super Special series.

Harry Groto has yellow eyes, long fingernails, and a scary growl. He even gets hungry when the moon is full. Could he really be a wolfman?

Gordan Goble, the new computer teacher at the Bailey School, has a gray complexion, an evil laugh, and makes the lights flicker on and off. Is he a real-live goblin?

Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones present Book 3 in the Bailey School Kids Super Special series.

What happens when Mrs. Jeepers takes her thrid-grade class to space camp? Could she really turn all of the scientists into vampires?

The Bailey School kids wonder if the new dentist in town, Dr. Herb, who has huge, bulging muscles and wears a shirt that reads, "Champion of the World," is really the Greek god, Hercules.

The Bailey School Kids begin to worry when they meet the coach of the new junior hockey team, the creepy assistant from the science museum, who bears a startling resemblance to Frankenstein's monster.

There's a hot new pizza joint in Bailey City and Mrs. Jeepers brings the kids there for a special treat. The castle-shaped building and medieval-style costumes on the waiters are fun, but when a rumble from the kitchen shakes the restaurant's foundations, the kids get suspicious. George, the owner, says his cook is temperamental and the earth-shaking fits he has are nothing unusual, but the kids are pretty sure the owner is St. George the dragon slayer and that his cook is a captive dragon. Can the kids uncover the truth before the disgruntled cook becomes a real problem?

The students at Bailey School try to overcome their fears and their imaginations when they meet the new football coach and student teacher, Mr. Bogey, whom everyone begins to think may be the Bogeyman.

It's just a normal day for the Bailey School kids. That's until they head to their favorite ice cream shop and meet Scout, the new girl working the counter. Clad in dark clothing and with a hollow and forlorn look on her face, Scout tells the kids that she's in town to find a house for the family she works for. When she adds that she's interested in finding a home that's made of stone and has no windows near the cemetery, the kids realize Scout must be a ghoul looking for a home for a family of vampires. Will the kids be able to stop Scout from bringing a new family of monsters to Bailey City?

Mr. Jenkins, the director at Camp Lone Wolf, has decided to hold a track meet. He's even brought an expert running coach to help the Bailey School kids prepare. The new coach is strangely inspirational—when she sings, people feel like they can do anything. But when the kids notice the strange resemblance the coach bears to a mermaid, the fact that she refuses to get wet, and that she's planning to run off with Mr. Jenkins, they wonder if this coach is more than she appears to be. Can the kids solve this mystery before they lose Mr. Jenkins and Camp Lone Wolf forever?

When several students begin to take piano lessons from a man who lives in a creepy old castle, the Bailey School kids begin to suspect that he may have a mysterious past.