The Bailey Fish Adventures by Linda Salisbury are action- adventure stories with an educational twist for boys and girls ages 8 to 12. Topics include: gold mining, Civil War and Revolutionary War stories, Native Americans, Jamestown Settlement and topical family issues such as single parent households, living with grandparents, foster children and adoption, and bullies, ??both kids and adults.

During summer vacation, Bailey and her best friends, adopted brothers Noah and Fred Keswick and their foster sister, Sparrow, convert an abandoned chicken coop into a theater and write a play about historical ghosts and space travelers. Then, new guests, Li'l Bonbon and Bean, arrive at Keswick Inn. The children's plans are thwarted when the mean and bossy Li'l Bonbon takes over their show. The boys' mother warns the kids to be polite to the inn's guests, no matter what Emotions rise as the kids rehearse Li'l bonbon's play about the Civil War in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and worry about a missing dog. Bailey makes a dramatic rescue and learns a valuable lesson about dealing with bullies, even if they are adults.