Young Adult Revisited

  So, I never read the book that came before this one, which sucks because this one picks up where that one left off. Apparently, Nancy helped solve a mystery on a film set and wound up getting a role in the flick. Harold, the cheese shop owner, also got a job in the movie. It's all about the big Rackham robbery that happened during the 19 th century. See, the Rackham Gang stole money from Ethan Mahoney, who owned the blacksmith shop in town. They took the money he got from the railroad to build parts for them. He would up bankrupt, but his heirs later made a ton of money and became the richest people in town. The two Rackham boys had a sister, Esther, who tried to stop them before leaving town. Ethan confronted the guys and was then attacked by a wild cat. Esther found him and after nursing him back to health, they married and never talked about what happened. When the book picks up, Nancy is all super nervous about the job and worried about acting in front of other ...

Nancy just finished up a case and spent the last 30 hours on her feet, but she promised Ned that she'd go to a lecture with him at his college. Bess and George meet them there. Tracey Gaines, the granddaughter of two famous gangsters, just finished up a big project and wants to share what she learned. Nancy keeps falling asleep, and at one point, Ned wakes her up. She notices him wearing a suit exactly like every other man in the crowd, and all the women are in dresses. A newspaper she finds lists the date as 1930, the same year the woman researched. Bess and George find a very confused Nancy outside and start talking about taking bread to Hooverville. It seems as though Nancy really did go back in time and landed smack dab in the middle of the Great Depression. After seeing Hooverville, they stumble across the Smith family. Clay Gaines and his partner, Edward Parker, are in the midst of evicting the family from their home. Bob lost the house while gambling. Nancy offers...

Nancy is off to New York City after winning a River Heights beauty pageant and becoming the local face of Pretty Face, a big deal cosmetics company. She dislikes the lotion they told her to wear so much that she hands over all her free samples to Bess. Bess loves how it tingles, but Nancy finds the sensation uncomfortable and weird. As soon as they land, they meet Kyle, the owner of the company, and his daughter Kelly. Kelly won the competition the year before. Almost as soon as they check into their hotel rooms, with Nancy and Kelly sharing one room and George and Bess in another, Nancy gets a list of all the events and activities she must attend. The first of which is an opening night party that brings together all the winners and the runner ups. Piper, the runner up to Nancy, makes it clear that she deserved to win more than Nancy did. The lights suddenly go out and then come back to reveal a bunch of costumed actors on stage. They all wear this grotesque makeup that...

Evaline Waters is an older woman who lives in River Heights. Most people know her because loves gardening and lives in an old house. Rackham Industries, which is like the evil corporation in town, recently announced plans to kick her out of her home. They claim that they found proof that she doesn't own the land she says she owns and that they have a claim to the property. Nancy agrees to help her find evidence to prove she really owns her home and land. Before she can do that though, she needs to have dinner with Ned, his parents, and his dad's friend, Colonel Lang. Ned's dad mentions getting weird calls at home from someone who says the package is on its way. Lang offers to give Ned flying lessons, and they make plans to go out the next day with Nancy. Nancy has a bad experience at the airport because of a man with a bad attitude. Once she gets up in the sky though, she falls in love. Carson agrees to let her take flying lessons and calls this guy Frank to set ...

In a previous case, Nancy and the gang met a fashion designed named Alicia. She's now a hot star and opening a new shop in River Heights. Scoop, her Chicago store, was such a hit that she picked this random small town for Scoop 2. Nancy finds out that the store will have a secret early opening with big sales on Friday, and Bess can't wait to find some bargains. The sale goes worse than anyone thought possible. Someone throws a rock through the plate glass window that causes everyone to freak out and run. A young girl gets trampled in the commotion. Since this is River Heights, the Chief of Police himself comes out to shut down the opening. He tells them that they can come back the next day but that they will all get numbers that determine when they can enter the store. Alicia is practically in tears because she never expected something like this to happen. Nancy learns that a pair of earrings went missing too. Natalie, the editor in chief of Threads, a super pop...

It's almost Carson's birthday and Nancy has no idea what to get him, so she starts wandering around town and looking for ideas. While visiting with River Height's resident palm reader and psychic, she sees a black woman in a pantsuit with a man who looks like her husband. The man starts towards the police station before his wife grabs his arm and drags him away. Nancy thinks the woman looks familiar but doesn't remember until later that it's Mrs. Simmons, a woman planning on running for town mayor in the next election. Mrs. Simmons is also the mother of Leslie, a pianist and a shoe in to win some massive scholarship to the local conservatory. Leslie is so popular that people pay to hear her play already. Also running for mayor is a guy named Granger. He's super rich and owns homes all over the country but somehow just can't get enough of River Heights. The girls all chat about how it's weird he wants to run their town and not live in a better ...