Young Adult Revisited

Nancy and the girls are off to Elk River Ranch in Wyoming. Alice, the best friend of her aunt Eloise, invited them to spend some time with her and her husband, John. They'll also meet Jenny, her daughter, and Jenny's fiancee, Paul. Paul is a zoology student and helping build a wolf sanctuary on their land. Bess is less then pleased with the news, especially after hearing that they also have a pet wolf. While on the way to the ranch, they have a run in with Rusty. He's their closest neighbor and has a yard absolutely filled to the brim with junk. Rusty fires a slingshot at the car windshield and makes a big deal out of how he doesn't like people around his property. They finally get to the ranch and meet Dody, a guest, and his son, Dexter, who Bess instantly develops a crush on. Nancy almost instantly finds an old pocket knife in the room she shares with George. Since it has RM on it, she thinks it might belong to Rusty. That freaks Alice out because she ...

I have no idea how I never did this book for my blog given how many times I read it over the years! SMS announces plans to put on a musical extravaganza, and if they use that term one more time, I may hit someone. They'll hold open auditions for both the elementary and high schools as well as the middle school. Jessi just recently became the sixth grade correspondent for the paper and thinks that she'll be the star in the musical version of Peter Pan. Now, let's get on with it. Jessi: Despite assuming that she'll be Peter Pan, Jessi isn't as good at singing and acting as she is with dancing. When she gets cast as a pirate, she throws a hissy fit and drops out. The director then asks her to choreograph dance numbers for the little kids. She then crosses her name off the program listing because she thinks she should get credit for so much more. In the end, Pete, who was cast as Nana and the crocodile, breaks his nose. Jessi takes his place as both...

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...

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...

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 ...

Ned is with the twins at the mall to see Santa at the Christmas Village when they run into all of their friends. He buys them all popsicles and lets them hang out before they meet Santa. While Jessica has a long list of things that she wants, Liz just hopes that the Super Snooper Club gets a new mystery. Ned then decides to visit his client, Mr. Fox, in his jewelry store to look for a gift for Alice. While they are looking at all the expensive jewelry, two guys come inside. One is a younger guy with dark hair, while the other is an older guy with white hair in a black suit with a red tie. Mr. Fox shows them some diamonds from his safe, gets distracted, and suddenly realizes that the diamonds are gone at the same time that the two guys take off. Jessica tells security that she saw them steal the diamonds, even though she didn't actually see anything. The guards give chase and catch the younger guy who lets them check out his briefcase. When they don't find anyth...

Nancy and the gang are all relaxing when George gets the news that she won an all expenses paid whitewater rafting trip for her and three of her closest friends. Bess really doesn't want to go because she assumes she'll die, but they manage to convince her that there might be some hot guys there. Since they have space for one more, Ned comes along. That makes sense because supposedly he and Nancy are having problems...again. The trip includes plane tickets and a rental car. When they get there though, there's no one waiting for them. No one at the rental place has ever heard of them either. They can't get a car until the next morning, which turns out to be a good thing since someone left them directions that took them along a twisty road that was washed away. They almost die but get stopped in time. When they finally get to the river, a few people seem surprised to see them. Namely Paula, the person who sent the letter, and Max, her right hand man. Max k...