Bailey Fish Adventure Series Children's Books

Bailey was astonished when her mother decided rather suddenly to travel to Costa Rica for a year or more and sent Bailey to live in Central Virginia with her grandmother, Sugar, who cares about people and the environment. Bailey tries to hide her sadness and loneliness as she adjusts to her new life, deals with a bully, whose father is out to get Sugar, and decides she wants to be one of the adventurous wild women of the family. The suspenseful adventures continue as she meets a half sister and dad she didn't know she had, rescues her kitten Sallie from the cat-snatcher, and identifies the thief of Keswick Inn. What Bailey expects is never what happens . . . The series so far: The Wild Women of Lake Anna; No Sisters Sisters Club, The Thief at Keswick Inn, in which many valuable items found when Bailey and the Keswicks restore an old house mysteriously disappear. Who is stealing them? Could it be Justin Rudd, a moody boy who is helping out? Soon restored old house, Keswick Inn, is open for guests. The first guests are evacuees from hurricanes -- Elmo and Feather Phigg, who are writing a book about Jamestown and carry with them a mysterious green suitcase. The second visitor is a deliberately mute foster sister, Sparrow. What will make Sparrow laugh and talk? Who else wants the contents of the Phiggs' suitcase? Then in book 5, the children write a play and turn an old chicken coop into a backyard theater. Their plans are thwarted when Li'l Bonbon, a bossy new guest at the inn, takes over their production. Each book has been personally signed by the author. These are great gifts for elementary children, and they are as educational as they are entertaining.