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The Nancy Drew Notebooks #22: The Clue in the Glue (1998)

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Nancy's class is in the middle of a science fair. George's dad helped her create a mobile of the planets on a wood base. Jason, one of the boys in their class, steals the bubbles that Nancy and Bess used for their project and starts tossing it around the room with these boys Andrew and David. The bottle knocks into the mobile, and one of the planets breaks. Mrs. Reynolds, their teachers, tells George that she can fix it in the morning. When they get back the next day though, someone already fixed it. They left a note behind on paper with smiley faces on it, and Nancy finds a bottle of empty glue under the table. George tells them that she got a few other notes on the same paper and thought it was Bess because her family has the same paper. Nancy decides to investigate and find the culprit. Andrew and Jason are the two main suspects. One note says that George is pretty, and Andrew keeps showing up to compliment her on random things. Jason shows off his project, w...

Sweet Valley Kids #45: Elizabeth's Piano Lessons

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Amy conveniently spent the night with Julie Porter and is eager to talk about how her friend is taking piano lessons. Julie's teacher plans on holding a recital, which means that she gets to wear a new pretty dress in front of tons of people. Jessica decides that it sounds like fun and that they should take piano lessons too. Elizabeth disagrees and wants to take riding lessons with Amy instead. Her twin mysteriously tells her that it doesn't matter. When they get home that night, Alice reveals that she signed them up for piano lessons. Their Aunt Helen conveniently called that morning and offered to pay for the kids' lessons. Steven wants to go to summer basketball camp, and when Jess told her how much Liz wanted to take piano lessons, Alice signed them up. Jess even announces that she heard their mom on the phone that morning and knew all about it in advance. Since even little Liz is still Liz, she decided to go through with it anyway. She plays in the par...

Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Be a Detective Mystery Stories #6: The Missing Money Mystery (1985)

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This is basically a Choose Your Own Adventure Book but featuring Nancy and the Hardy Boys. They head to California to stay with the Blake family, who are friends of Frank and Joe's parents. Jill, their daughter, tells them that she saw someone steal something and run away and that the person kind of looked like their gardener. Nancy investigates the gardener, and the boys check out the chip. One ending has Nancy catch some robbers and lock them in the basement of the house until the cops arrive, while the boys find a silicone computer chip, spend the whole book trying to find who stole it, and finally learn that it's worthless. Another ending has Nancy find out that the gardener is innocent and saving the day because she's Nancy. As she and Jill float in the pool, Jill is super relieved that he's innocent. Nancy laughs about how the Hardy brothers once again followed the wrong lead. In another ending, both sides win. They actually work together to ...