Books, Teens, Series, Nancy Drew

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Melanie Rehak
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
by Harvest Books (Paperback)

A plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women’s libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers’ lives. Here, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and page-turning pace of Nancy’s adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon?   The brainchild of children’s book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over as CEO after her father died. In this century-spanning story, Rehak traces their roles—and Nancy’s—in forging the modern ...

Carolyn Keene
Murder on the Fourth of July (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #28)
by Simon Pulse (Paperback)

Nancy's participation in a whale-saving campaign is cut short when a major contributor is falsely accused of murder, while Frank and Joe attempt to stop a saboteur from ruining a fireworks display in Seattle.

Carolyn Keene
Spies and Lies (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #13)
by Simon Pulse (Paperback)

Working undercover at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, Nancy, Frank, and Joe find their separate missions taking a sinister turn when a Bureau trainee is murdered.

Carolyn Keene
Target for Terror (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #24)
by Simon Pulse (Paperback)

Nancy travels to the small island nation of Philonesia to help the president's daughter, a promising violinist, escape a series of kidnapping attempts, while the Hardy boys infiltrate an animal rights group at San Francisco University.

Carolyn Keene
Dangerous Games (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #4)
by Simon Pulse (Paperback)

Carolyn Keene
Paris Connection (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mystery #6)
by Simon Pulse (Paperback)

Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon
Shock Waves (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #3)
by Simon Pulse (Paperback)

Carolyn Keene
Loving and Losing (Nancy Drew on Campus #15)
by Simon Pulse (Mass Market Paperback)

Sure, love hurts. But speed kills. At Wilder, the pain is hitting home. A big-time cosmetics company is on campus looking for fresh faces to use in their ads, and both Pam and Reva are taking a shot. Rut their boyfriends, Jamal and Andy, aren't exactly offering support. In fact, the guys seem more interested in cutting the girls down. They act as if they know everything, but if they don't lighten up, they'll find out what it's like to lose a girlfriend. Nancy, meanwhile, is dealing with a real loss. Bess went looking for romance and found tragedy. A motorcycle ride with Paul was cut short by a hit-and-run driver. She was seriously injured -- and Paul was killed. Nancy knows there's no simple answer to her best friend's anguish, but she's determined to find the driver and make him answer for Paul's death.

Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon
Islands of Intrigue (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #27)
by Simon Pulse (Paperback)

America's hottest teen detectives team up to defuse an explosive scheme.Nancy Drew and her friend Bess are vacationing in Greece, land of romance, history, and mystery. They befriend Alexis Constantine, daughter of a famous shipping magnate, and are invited to sail on the family's yacht in the Greek islands. But Nancy and Bess soon discover that they are headed into some dangerous waters. Alexis is kidnapped, and after a caller threatens to kill her if the police are notified, Nancy realizes that the young woman's fate is in her hands.Meanwhile...Frank and Joe Hardy have come to Greece at the behest of the ultrasecret Network. Their mission: Pursue a renegade American operative suspected of stealing a dozen superpowerful Phoenix missiles from a U.S. military base. Together with Nancy, the Hardys set off on a spine-tingling Greek odyssey across a sea of duplicity, danger, and imminent destruction...

Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon
Best of Enemies (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #9)
by Simon Pulse (Paperback)

AMERICA'S HOTTEST TEEN DETECTIVES TEAM UP TO BRING AN AMERICAN SUPERSPY TO SAFETY The Berlin Wall has come tumbling down, and a major American agent -- code-named the Swallow -- wants to come home. On a top-secret mission for the Network, THE HARDY BOYS head to Memphis, where a mystery man named Pritchiff has promised to turn the agent over for a price. But a ruthless German spymaster, known only as Klaus, has vowed to beat Frank and Joe to the punch -- and shoot the Swallow out of the sky. Meanwhile . . . NANCY DREW comes to the aid of Beau Davis, a guy with a bad case of the Memphis blues. Accused of stealing a guitar once belonging to Elvis, he is now a prime suspect in a more ominous matter -- the murder of Pritchitt! In a case as twisty and treacherous as a Mississippi River current, Frank and Joe and Nancy are headed for a stunning rendezvous and revelation . . in Best Of Enemies

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