Young Adult Revisited

Nancy, Bess, and George are off to the small town of Avondale, where they rented a cabin on Moon Lake for the weekend. Nancy and George can't wait to hike and canoe, but Bess wants to just kick back and relax. After getting to the cabin and realizing that Nancy forgot the food at home, they head into town for supplies and arrive just in time to see that the local bookstore burned down. Mandy, one of the girls standing out in front, whines about how she won't get to meet Lacey O'Brien now. Lacey is the town's resident mystery writer. Though she lives in town, she seldom spends time there and only makes one appearance each year for a meet and greet at that specific bookstore. Alice Ann, owner of the Cheshire Cat Bed and Breakfast, sells Nancy a few of the writer's books and lets it slip that not everyone is a huge fan. It turns out that the writer's most recent book is about a fire, and the police think the fire at the bookstore was arson. They th

In case you missed the multiple books leading up to this one, some members of the BSC are heading to Europe for vacation while the rest remain in Stoneybrook to help run a playground camp. Jessi decides to keep a diary that everyone will write in to tell the others everything they did. Claudia was excited about staying home and working at the camp until Janine became a counselor at the last minute. Jerry, her ex-boyfriend, called and begged her to help out when one of his other counselors backed out at the last minute. Janine proceeds to make Claudia's life a living hell. She lectures her all the time, puts the blame on her for things that go wrong, and acts like she has no experience working with kids. When Claudia finally snaps and goes off on her, Janine breaks down and says that Jerry kept acting like he was better than her and basically treating her like Claudia, so she sent her frustrations to the one person she loved and trusted. They make up, and Janine winds up