The Aventures of the Bailey School Kids (or, simply, The Bailey School Kids) is a best-selling children's book series by Marcia Thornton Jones and Debbie Dadey. Its main characters are a group of four children (Eddie, Howie, Liza, Melody) who suspect some persons in the stories are popular folk lore or fairy tale characters. For example, in one book they believe a man named Frank who resembles Frankenstein in appearance to actually be the Frankenstein creature himself. In other books they suspect persons to be mythical and folk lore characters such as elves, unicorns, mermaids, Santa Claus, leprechauns, Bigfoot, Cupid, vampires, Martians, werewolves, ghosts, angels, etc.