Ghouls Don't Scoop Ice Cream (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, #31) (Paperback)

~ (Author), Marcia T. Jones (Author), (Illustrator) "I can't believe it," Eddie complained after school..." (more)
Key Phrases: Bailey City, Burger Doodle, Ruby Cave (more...)

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Product Description

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.

About the Author

DEBBIE DADEY and MARCIA THORNTON JONES came up with the idea for The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids when they both worked at a school in Lexington, Kentucky. Today Debbie and her family live in Fort Collins, Colorado. Marcia and her husband still live in Kentucky.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (May 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590258192
• ISBN-13: 978-0590258197
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #150,812 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ghouls Don't Scoop Ice Cream, January 28, 2005

By	Gabriel Fernandez "Book Addict" (Canoga Park, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

When The Four kids, Liza, Melody, Howie and Eddie go to Doodlegum Burger Shake restaurant they meet a strange worker whose name is Scout. But When Carey goes to Doodlegum Restaurant, She talks about her silent new neighborhood. When Scout heard it, She was so curious to know it. Scout said she wanted to move next to Carey's Neighborhood but next is the old graveyard. When the kids go out, Howie talked about ghouls because his friends believed Scout was a ghoul. Scout said she spies for a vampire. When they met Mrs. Jeepers saw her, she was talking to a phone. Looks Like Scout is a real ghoul?
You Find Out

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars double scoop of fun, March 11, 2001

By	Chess Heart "paxbear" (Cattauraugus County, NY) - See all my reviews

Can Bailey School possibly get any weirder?? Well, funny you should ask...

Our small band of 3rd graders is presented with one of their newest run-ins with the strange and supernatural. Out on a trip to the Burger Doodle, they run into a new counter worker, Scout. In addition to having an odd name, Scout is an odd character! First off, her skin is ashen white, she wears a hooded black sweatshirt, and her eyes are blood red!! Speaking of blood red, what's that weird, thick red syrup she's always putting on her own ice cream? It looks a lot like... like blood!

It doesn't take long for the Bailey Kids to begin to wonder about her and her strange way of almost GLIDING over the tiles. Besides, she doesn't ever laugh or even crack a smile. It's not long before someone suggests that she might be a ghoul: an undead creature in the service of a vampire who is in search of new places for their vampire masters to live. When the Kids find out that Ms. Jeepers, their vampire teacher, is thinking of having her family move to Bailey City, they decide that action must be taken or else the city will be overrun by vampires!! One for a teacher is bad enough!

This is the 31st installment in the Bailey School Kids series and is a bit creepier than some of the others in the series. It's still got all the elements of the other books, a wisecracking Eddie who refuses to believe that any of these weird folk are anything but that-- just weird, not supernatural, a fast pace and fun plot.

I've reviewed a number of the books in the series and am finding them quite addicting. They're fast reads for beginning-to-intermediate readers (though an adult will likely finish them in less than half an hour), and the language is simple and fun. I often recommend this series for students & children who are not very interested in reading because the pace is fast, the plot is simple, and they're generally a lot of fun to read. So, scoop yourself out some vanilla and settle in with the Bailey Kids in this installment!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I would give this book BIG five stars., June 16, 1998

By A Customer

I would give this book Big five stars beacause it tells what are they going to do to solve the mysteries and what's going on. I liked it because they give details about how they look like. I would compare this with Vacation Under The Volcano but I like Volcation Under the Volcano better because it has magic. I would recommend this book to a friend because in the book they try to figure out what is going on.