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When Nancy's friend Laura's family stables are sabotaged and then Laura's favorite horse is stolen, Nancy must discover if Laura's spoiled rival is trying to hurt her or if the upcoming fox hunt has enraged animal activists who will stop at nothing to end this sport.Tags
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In my youth, Nancy Drew was SUPER big among the popular girls at my school. I was never into Nancy Drew for that reason (I was a bit of a rebel nerd and I relished in my Harry Potter, Goosebumps and Twilight) but I always wanted to sneak a peek at these books.
I found this one at a local used book store and decided it would be a nice addition to my shelf, and I wasn't wrong!
I can tell why young girls like these books. They are dramatic, easy to read, full of youthful tones and amusing. Right from the beginning, if you are in detective mode then you can tell how this book is going to end. The fact that it's the #132 book in the series blows my mind, because this series went on FOREVER and I just didn't realize.
This book is predictable. show more Nancy Drew (who is now 18) goes on a fox hunt mystery (like the title suggests) with her friends. When a horse is stolen and people are being threaten to stop the horrible fox hunt, chaos ensues. Nancy Drew hopes on to solve the mystery and my gosh, she does it!
There are some comments in this book that made me actually laugh. One of the real gems is that she doesn't want people to know she's a detective. Okay, she is in her own right but it's not like she went to study Law or anything... but it's a middle grade novel, so you need to throw reality out the window.
Overall, this doesn't have the magic that I hoped it would but it was enjoyable. It was a nice, quick, escape read that made me smile.
Two out of five stars. show less
I found this one at a local used book store and decided it would be a nice addition to my shelf, and I wasn't wrong!
I can tell why young girls like these books. They are dramatic, easy to read, full of youthful tones and amusing. Right from the beginning, if you are in detective mode then you can tell how this book is going to end. The fact that it's the #132 book in the series blows my mind, because this series went on FOREVER and I just didn't realize.
This book is predictable. show more Nancy Drew (who is now 18) goes on a fox hunt mystery (like the title suggests) with her friends. When a horse is stolen and people are being threaten to stop the horrible fox hunt, chaos ensues. Nancy Drew hopes on to solve the mystery and my gosh, she does it!
There are some comments in this book that made me actually laugh. One of the real gems is that she doesn't want people to know she's a detective. Okay, she is in her own right but it's not like she went to study Law or anything... but it's a middle grade novel, so you need to throw reality out the window.
Overall, this doesn't have the magic that I hoped it would but it was enjoyable. It was a nice, quick, escape read that made me smile.
Two out of five stars. show less
loved this series as a kid!
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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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- The Fox Hunt Mystery
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- Nancy Drew; Laura
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