Young Adult Revisited

You might remember Julie Porter, the girl who loved music and was one of Elizabeth's best friends back in middle school. She apparently had an older sister named Johanna. While Julie took after her parents with the whole music thing and was an amazing student, Johanna always struggled with her studies. After their mom was struck and killed in a car accident, Johanna gave up, quit school, and went to work at the Whistlestop, some random diner. She's now back and giving school the old college try again. See, Johanna found her mom's old diaries and found an entry she wrote about how she hoped Johanna would one day go back to school. Her mom was the only one who ever really got her and the only one who really supported her. If she hadn't found that diary, she never would have found the courage to go back. After running into some bitchy girls who act all surprised that she came back, she runs into Peter DeHaven, another kid we never heard about since middle s...

Nancy and the gang are off to New York once again to visit with her Aunt Eloise. This time though, there's not a modeling show or anything. Her best friend lost a large sum of money and wants Nancy to help her get it back. Annabella is a rich widow and usually donates money to charity but recently gave a man cash to secure a trip around the world. He took her money and then disappeared. Since there's nothing they can do that night, they decide to go see a popular magic show featuring the Hoaxters. Bess gets called on stage during the show and finds her purse missing. The same thing happens to a bunch of other people, but the magicians swear that they'll get their things back. Bess does get her purse back at the end of the show with nothing missing. Suspiciously enough, she gets a call from a guy the next day who wants to offer her an amazing deal. Thinking it's the same guy who swindled Annabella, Nancy tells Bess to invite him over. She hides in the closet...