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A collection of new stories about some of your favorite characters such as Horrible Harry and the Bailey School Kids, plus excerpts from favorite books about Ramona, Julian, and Tomie.

There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the very tall man who likes flowers really be Frankenstein''s monster? Is it possible that the art teacher with braces on her teeth is an alien for outer space? Is the cheerful guy with the gold earring a real genie? And is the boat instructor at Camp Lone Wolf really a pirate searching for buried treasure? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out!

Floyd has to wear a special collar after he hurts his nose. He feels sad that he can''t play like the rest of the dogs. How can Jack and his friends cheer up Floyd?

Kids don''t believe that elves work as construction workers building the school playground.

Short stories include: Wally''s first Christmas, Jigsaw Jones: The case of the Santa Claus mystery; Midnight gets a star; Take a penny, leave a penny; The nutcracker retold; Holiday disaster; Christmas on the prairie; The rocking chair: a classroom play; A visit from St. Nicholas.

Get ready for more spooky fun from the best-selling authors of THE BAILEY SCHOOL KIDS. And you thought YOUR school was scary? These third-graders are haunted by a classroom full of GHOSTS! Hollywood is coming to Sleepy Hollow! A big-time director wants to film a movie about ghosts in the third-graders'' basement classroom. Jeff can''t wait to see how a real scary movie is made. He wants to help out with costumes, props, and special effects. But the classroom ghosts want to help out, too. And that could turn this horror flick into a horrible flop!

At Barkley''s school for dogs, a friendly canine named Jack becomes concerned when a new puppy begins learning the mean ways of Sweetcakes, the school''s Doberman bully.

Annie, Ben, and Jane investigate the strange habits of the owners of the Hauntly Manor Inn and their spooky young son.

The children are concerned when there is no candy to be found in Bailey City in the days leading up to Halloween.

The students at Bailey School suspect that the new school nurse, Mrs. Redding, is a Martian who has come to spy on Earth kids.

Miss Angela Michaels, the new karate teacher in Bailey City, who is also the school crossing guard, is so kind and generous that Melody becomes convinced that she is a guardian angel. Original.

The Bailey School kids devise a plan to find out if Mr. Bigg--the man who is fixing up the park for the town Easter egg hunt--is really an ogre as Eddie claims.

Mr. Jolly keeps the school magically clean and bitter cold, and he''s full of surprises, but can he make a miracle happen?

Andrew, the class bully, brings ghost-stopping slime to the school basement, but the Ghostville ghosts aren''t planning on being caught.

There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Could the small woman selling T-shirts at the carnival really be an evil troll?

The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series #16.

The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series #12.

Could it be that the new baker, who makes the best pumpkin pies in town, is really a ninja who wants to steal some valuable Japanese art?

When Liza, Howie, Eddie and Melody discover that Santa''s reindeer are all at the Bailey City Zoo with terrible colds, Eddie becomes determined to do what he can to save Christmas.

Eddie doesn''t like to read but finds himself spending lots of time reading with the library volunteer, Grandpa Vamps. Could Eddie be under the spell of a vampire disguised as Grandpa Vamps?

Who is that riding up to the Bailey City pool? It''s the new lifeguard. But why is she dressed the way she is? And why is she taking all of their treasures?

Eddie and Howie go to visit Eddie''s great-aunt Mathilda. But when Howie sees a shadowy face in the window -- and when his potato chips start to form mysterious trails -- the Bailey School kids are spooked. Could a ghost be living in the attic?

Trying to discover the truth about their eerie new soccer coach''s strange behavior, Melody begins to suspect that Coach Graves has been turned into a zombie, much to the delight of the Bailey School kids. Original.

There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new band teacher really teach a skeleton to play the tuba?

The Bailey School kids set out to discover whether there is a phantom in the opera''s orchestra pit.

The Bailey School kids investigate to see if the new playground monitor is Dracula and if his agenda is to turn the school''s teachers into vampires.

The Bailey School kids look for a way to get rid of their strange, pale, blood-sucking new playground monitor when he begins turning the teachers into vampires.

There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City, but could the new gymnastics teacher really be a witch? Chapter Book: 11 chapters.

There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the beautiful singing track coach with long hair really be a magical mermaid? Chapter Book: 12 chapters