New Releases by Marcia Thornton Jones

There are some pretty weird grown-ups in Bailey City. But is the strange new cookie chef at the ice rink really the Bride of Frankenstein? Chapter Book: 12 chapters.

The Burger Doodle has a new ice cream scooper -- and she''s a bit bizarre. Howie and his friends think she might be a ghoul sent to spy on the people of Bailey City.

The Bailey School Kids investigate a strange man who plays in the orchestra to discover if he could be the real phantom haunting the opera.

Puzzles accompany the story of Mrs. Jeepers'' class on an exploration of Ruby Cave.

The coach of the new junior hockey team looks familiar. He''s the creepy assistant from the science museum, and he looks just like Frankentein''s monster!

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

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. Original.

Puzzles accompany the story of Mrs. Jeepers'' class traveling to Transylvania to meet her relatives.

Mrs. Jeeper''s class is visiting Ruby Mountain to learn about nature, and along the way Eddie spots enormous tracks on the dirt trail. He''s sure that the tracks belong to the square-dancing teacher--a large, hairy man resembling Bigfoot. Is he really the legendary beast?

Helping transform the Bailey city Stables into an animal shelter for the holidays, the Bailey School kids encounter a beautiful white horse that lives there and begin to suspect that it is a unicorn.

There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new mysterious student teacher who is on the Bailey City football team really be out to get the students of Bailey Elementary? Chapter Book: 12 chapters.

The Bailey School kids set out to discover whether their beautiful singing track coach is really a magical mermaid.

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

It''s the very beginning of a new school year, and all the kids at Bailey Elementary need to have their eyes checked by a doctor. Could Dr. Polly, who has a large metal circle on his forehead, really be a Cyclops stalking the people of Bailey City?

There were some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new librarian who has a long white beard and a magic wand really be Merlin, the great wizard from medieval times?

There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City, but could the new cook in the school cafeteria really be Cupid cooking up love potions for lunch? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out!

The new swimming instructor at Camp Lone Wolf, Nessie McFarland, has a strange attraction to the water. And when the kids hear that the Loch Ness monster has gone missing from Scotland, they get a funny feeling. The Loch Ness monster is described as black and skinny with a long neck and a little head which sounds a lot like Nessie in her scuba gear. But Nessie couldn''t really be a monster, could she?

The Bailey School kids decide to find out if the boat instructor at Camp Lone Wolf is really a pirate searching for buried treasure.

When the Bailey School kids find an old bottle and open its stopper their wishes start to come true, and they wonder if the new man in town might just be a genie.