The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids are usually a fun read. I wanted to try a bit of nostalgia this week, and I picked up a few of these books from the library. Mr. Spark is a fun addition to the cast of characters, especially in a book outside of the normal collection. There's no resolution to his story. I thought the space ship shaped thing would be a piñata, but the plot didn't meet my expectations and he just disappeared during the party. I think this particular book out of the series was a bad choice. There wasn't much to the story telling. That being said, I'm definitely not the intended audience for these books, and I don't think I'm going to continue reading them, because they're not quite filling the nostalgic void I was hoping they would.
These books still stand the test of time and at the rate I still see them checked out of the library by kids, kids today like them just as much as I did growing up.