Wolfmen Don't Hula Dance

The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids #36

by Marcia Thornton Jones, Marcia Thornton Jones, John Steven Gurney (Illustrations)

Enjoying a special luau at Camp Lone Wolf, the kids are convinced that one of the hula dancers, Harry Groto, is the legendary wolfman. Original.

Genres: Fiction, Childrens, Mystery, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Chapter Books, Young Adult

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Marcia Thornton Jones has published 131 books for children with sales totaling more than 43 million copies world-wide. Her works include CHAMP (mid-grade novel), RATFINK (mid-grade novel), GODZILLA ATE MY HOMEWORK (chapter book), THE TALE OF JACK FROST (picture book) and LEPRECHAUN ON THE LOOSE (picture book). She is the co-author of seven popular series including The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, Keyholders, Ghostville Elementary, The Bailey School Kids Jr. Chapter Books, Triplet Trouble, Bailey City Monsters, and The Barkley School for Dogs.

Marcia has been listed as a top 100 author by the Educational Paperback Association and selected for the Children’s Top 100 Books list by the National Education Association, International Reading Associations Children’s Choice Award. Marcia's books have received many honors and have appeared on on the Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers lists,

Marcia, a full time writer living in Lexington, Kentucky enjoys presenting at schools and conferences. As a veteran teacher with more than 20 years of experience, she easily relates the importance of writing to students of all ages.

Reviews

[Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Werewolves Don't Hula Dance begins with Eddie complaining about this upcoming dinner thing for the school. It's some kind of camping luau.There on their way to the gym where some kind of performance is going on. There's a bunch of hula dancers and one very hairy guy dancing with them and eating fire. After all of this randomness ,one of the kids decide that the hairy guy is a wolfman why ? Because he is hairy and they saw in some book that hula dancers dance to tell stories and whatnot. Howie finds a book talking all about wolfman and how to defeat them. one of the ways it says in order to stop a wolfman transformation is you have to have him in sunlight (makes sense) ,or spray him with water, (does not make sense).There is also this wolf belt thing that this guy wears that supposedly has powers that turns him into wolfman. there's even a few ways to become wolfman that is new to me. That's drinking water from a wolfmans paw.and wearing his belt. Ok so I don't know if these are actual urban legend things but I've never heard of them . I won't knock the book for something I don't know alot about . The plot of this story is simple enough a guy named Harry gotto is the culprit who they assume is a wolfman. He along with Mr Jenkins a guy from an earlier book, that I haven't read yet called Werewolves Don't Run Summer Camp are both beleived to be a werewolf and a wolf man and the kids are trying to prove it .This book was just ok for me without the camp setting it falls a little flat. With that being said I did love the atmosphere of camping and there's even a kinda creepy scene where Harry is petting his wolf belt in a cabin .Other then the setting and promises of a wolfman .Wolfmen don't hula dance is a three out of five stars.

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wolfmen evidently don't hula dance . . . but exceedingly hairy men do.

[paige turner ♡ · Rating 2 out of 5]

These kids are quick to judge a book by it's cover. Harry was probably just telling a story through dance. They didn't need to go and almost ruin another event. And again, this so called monster saved Eddie's life. Several "monsters" have saved them before, and they don't even care about it.

I know all worked out fine in the end, but I still feel like the day was ruined.

[J.B. Mathias · Rating 2 out of 5]

They already did a werewolf character and this is just a variation on it and the wolfman character wasn't in the story all that much. The premise of going to a camp and having a hawaiian celebration with their school where they hire hula dancers is almost as absurd as the premise that one of the dancers is a wolfman. Other than that it was an ok story.

[Dippit! with E.S.Jennette · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought it was super cute, it is about how these hula dancers come to the kid's school, a full moon comes, and one becomes a wolfman. The wolfman and another dancer fight and Eddie breaks it up and comes around regarding dancing and decides that he wants to hula dance as part of his report on Hawaii.

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute.

[BookeryBliss · Rating 4 out of 5]

The collection of "The adventures of the Bailey School Kids" stories are among my all-time favorite children's books. Witty, mischievous and fun, these short and silly books continue to bring giggles to the young and old. Just as I have enjoyed them as a kid, my own children also love them today. I even catch myself re-reading them (alone) from time to time. What can I say? I guess I'll always be a BSK kid at heart.

[Twyla · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this book I learned that you shouldn't judge someone just because you heard something wierd about them, one of their relatives, or someone who looks like them. The Bailey School Kids judged Harry by how he looked. They called him a werewolf. But this isn't true. He is just like other people and nice. They found this out when Harry rescued Eddie after he fell into the lake while hula dancing. Auryn 12 years old, 2015

[Seth · Rating 2 out of 5]

They are outside at the annual Bailey School dinner. They saw a hula dancer. The hula dancer swallowed fire! They thought the hula dancer was a wolf man the hula dancer was friends with Mr. Jenkins- the camp director.

[Jerome Otte · Rating 4 out of 5]

The kids are back at Camp Lone Wolf, where Jenkins is arranging a luau. One of the fire-eating hula dancers is suspected of being a wolf-man, since he hits it off with Jenkins and has a very wolf-like appearance and mannerism.

Intriguing and funny.

[Juliana · Rating 5 out of 5]

of course these are only WOLFMEN, not WEREWOLVES. There's a VERY big difference (lol Nads and Lissie)

[Savannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is funny, suprising and it even frightened me for a second.If you read this book you will find out what happened that shocked me.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

great when ur little

[Alice Cullen · Rating 4 out of 5]

good

[Logan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read these all in while I was in middle school and loved them, giving them a 3.5-4.0 for my past 12 year old self.