Kickin' It Old School

One of my favorite series growing up was The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids. I used to take these books out of the library all the time! It was exciting to think there could be fantastical creatures walking secretly among us, disguised as unassuming characters, such as school teachers or camp counselors. Adults, of course, wouldn't suspect a thing - even if strange things were happening. It's kids that are the most perceptive, especially Liza, Howie, Melody, and Eddie, our fierce mythical creature detection team. Now whether these grown-ups are actually monsters or not is never truly disclosed. Readers have to decide that for themselves!

In Witches Don't Do Backflips, the Bailey School Kids sign up for gymnastics lessons at the new gym in town (which is kind of creepy). To make things complicated, their gymnastics teacher Miss Brewbaker flips like she can fly, recites rhymes that could be spells, and has a broom that seems to move about on its own. Plus she HATES dogs. The fact that Eddie's dalmatian Prince Diamond enjoys terrorizing her black cat Merlin is not lost on Miss Brewbaker and she might just decide to do something, er, witchy about it.

Fascinating read the whole way through! Perfect mysteries for young readers who like spooky things and believe that sometimes the weirdest explanation is the most logical one.