April Fool's Day
by Carolyn Keene
Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew (19), Nancy Drew (Clue Crew series — Clue Crew 19)
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Nancy, George, and Bess have been invited to an April Fool's Day party at their new schoolmate's house, with each guest bringing a gag to the party and the best prank winning a special prize. When two of the guests' fancy new electronics go missing, Nancy knows it's no joke, and the Clue Crew are on the case to find the missing gadgets.Tags
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Review: Nancy Drew is a series of chapter books about Nancy and her friends solving mysteries. This specific book was about a mystery on april fools day. This book is a great chapter book for 4th through 6th graders. While reading this book I was interested the whole time. It was filled with suspenseful moments.
Summary: Nancy Drew and the April fools day mystery was about Nancy and her friend April's, April fools day party. They arrive and meet all of April's friends. There were two girls that attended the party, Heidi and Miranda, who seemed a little rude and bratty. They both had cell phones and game players that they were showing off to the other girls. After they all eat pizza and hang out, Heidi and Miranda realize that their cell show more phone and game players were missing. April asks Nancy and her friends George and Bess to help solve the mystery of the missing items. After a while of looking around and finding clues, Nancy and her crew realize the whole mystery was not a mystery at all, it was an April fools joke.
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This is a very well written children's chapter book. The book holds children's interest throughout the story. As the story goes on there are more and more crimes being committed and April asks Nancy and her friends to help solve the crime. You don't find out until the very end what the whole mystery was.
The whole meaning to this chapter book was about friendship. At first April's friends Miranda and Heidi start acting very fake and April is confused. She lets it slide by, but at the end she finally asks them why they were acting like that and they explained that they were acting like that because it was all apart of their April Fools joke. show less
Summary: Nancy Drew and the April fools day mystery was about Nancy and her friend April's, April fools day party. They arrive and meet all of April's friends. There were two girls that attended the party, Heidi and Miranda, who seemed a little rude and bratty. They both had cell phones and game players that they were showing off to the other girls. After they all eat pizza and hang out, Heidi and Miranda realize that their cell show more phone and game players were missing. April asks Nancy and her friends George and Bess to help solve the mystery of the missing items. After a while of looking around and finding clues, Nancy and her crew realize the whole mystery was not a mystery at all, it was an April fools joke.
Argument:
This is a very well written children's chapter book. The book holds children's interest throughout the story. As the story goes on there are more and more crimes being committed and April asks Nancy and her friends to help solve the crime. You don't find out until the very end what the whole mystery was.
The whole meaning to this chapter book was about friendship. At first April's friends Miranda and Heidi start acting very fake and April is confused. She lets it slide by, but at the end she finally asks them why they were acting like that and they explained that they were acting like that because it was all apart of their April Fools joke. show less
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Carolyn Keene was the pseudonym that Mildred Wirt Benson and Walter Karig used to write Nancy Drew books. The idea of Nancy Drew came from Edward Stratemeyer in 1929. He also had other series, that included the Hardy Boys, but he died in 1930 before the Nancy Drew series became famous. His daughters, Harriet and Edna, inherited his company and show more maintained Nancy Drew having Mildred Wirt Benson, the original Carolyn Keene, as the principal ghostwriter. During the Depression, they asked Benson to take a pay cut and she refused, which is when Karig wrote the books. Karig's Nancy Drew books were Nancy's Mysterious Letter, The Sign of the Twisted Candles, and Password to Larkspur Lane. He was fired from writing more books because of his refusal to honor the request that he keep his work as Carolyn Keene a secret. He allowed the Library of Congress to learn of his authorship and his name appeared on their catalog cards. Afterwards, they rehired Benson and she wrote until her last Nancy Drew book (#30) was written in 1953, Clue of the Velvet Mask. Harriet and Edna Stratemeyer also contributed to the Nancy Drew series. Edna wrote plot outlines for several of the early books and Harriet, who claimed to be the sole author, had actually outlined and edited nearly all the volumes written by Benson. The Stratemeyer Syndicate had begun to make its writers sign contracts that prohibited them from claiming any credit for their works, but Benson never denied her writing books for the series. After Harriet's death in 1982, Simon and Schuster became the owners of the Stratemeyer Syndicate properties and in 1994, publicly recognized Benson for her work at a Nancy Drew conference at her alma mater, the University of Iowa. Now, Nancy Drew has several ghostwriters and artists that have contributed to her more recent incarnations. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 786.40 — Arts & recreation Music Keyboard, mechanical, electrophonic, percussion instruments Harpsichords [formerly: music for keyboard string instruments]
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- PZ7 .K23 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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