The Bailer School Kid series focuses on four children [Melody, Liza, Howie and Eddie]. Every book has the same basic plotline, the children suspect that an adult is not all that they appear to be. The children then go about trying to find proof and/or try to get rid of them. The books never say whether or not they were actually what the children thought they were, they are left open ended for the reader to determine what they thought.

This is a series of books that I highly enjoyed as a child and I still own the entire collection. Recently I started to reread them and fell in love with them all over again. ( )

GENRE: This is a good example of a science fiction early chapter book, because the story centers around strange, "out of this world" events. The students at Bailey School think they have an alien for a substitute teacher, which remains a mystery through the end of the book. The students' curiosity and interest in the fact that they have an alien for a teacher is very realistic, but the fact that the teacher is from another planet, is unbelievable.

SETTING: The setting in the story is a backdrop, because the time and place where the events happen are not specific or integral. The school could be anywhere and the town could be any city in America. The events and things that happen at the school are what carry the story.

ART/MEDIA: pencil, sketches

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