"Miss Malarkey Won't Be in Today"(1998) is taken from the book entitled Miss Malarkey: Stories from Room 10 written by Judy Finchler, with illustrations by Kevin O'Malley, published by Barnes & Noble, Inc. by arrangement with Walker Publishing Company, Inc., a division of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc. in 2010.
   This story captures what could go wrong with a substitute taking Miss Malarkey's place in her class.