Aliens Don't Wear Braces (Adventures of the Bailey School Kids #7) »

Strange doings seem to erupt whenever Mrs. Zork, the substitute art teacher shows up, in this most far-out adventure yet about the fun-filled Bailey School kids.

Children's Literature

What exactly is a space alien? And is it possible that a space alien is teaching at Bailey School? One day Mrs. Zork arrives and begins her job as a substitute art teacher, in the mysterious absence of Mr. Gibson. Mrs. Zork seems a little weird, so the Bailey School Kids begin investigating her carefully. While she does not fit the stereotype of an alien, she is unusual. She is tall, very light-skinned and able to absorb colors from objects at the mere touch of a finger. She even has a huge disk in her garage, which appears to be a flying saucer. But still, the kids are skeptical. Even when they find a star map and discover that space aliens landed in the town ten years earlier, the children are not sure about Mrs. Zork. Is it possible this is a misunderstanding? That she is just an unusual person? At the end of this humorous story, the Bailey School Kids prove definitively that Mrs. Zork is a space alien after all. Since the early 1990s, "The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids" have enchanted young readers. With this title, Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones will win over a new generation of beginning readers.