When Gus & Gertie arrive on Holiday Island, they find a haven of seagoing scallywags, riffraff, and ruffians. It isn't long before Gertie's precious, deep-sea pearl is stolen, but who's to blame?

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 4/13/2009

ISBN-10: 158717023X

ISBN-13: 9781587170232

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Twelve-year-old private investigator, Fletcher Moon, nicknamed 'Half Moon,' is the youngest P.I. on the planet, with the badge (earned from the Bob Bernstein Academy,an online private investigators' academy) to prove it. His first case gets him involved with spoiled, April Devereux, 'head of an entire tribe of Barbies,' when she hires him to find out who swiped the lock of a pop star's hair, that she bought on eBay. Getting to the bottom of the mystery leads Fletcher to break rule No. 1 in his detective's handbook--'Be invisible'--and he finds himself framed for a crime he did not commit, with twelve hours to clear his name.

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 4/13/2009

ISBN-10: 0786849606

ISBN-13: 9780786849604

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Eight-year-old Nancy's class is getting a bonus treat for Halloween. They will be the audience at the taping of the Dudley the Science Dude TV show, wearing their costumes! When all Dudley's experiments fail disastrously, Nancy and her friends, Bess and George, are asked to find out why. Dudley declares that the lab must be haunted! To solve the mystery, the three friends find themselves, on Halloween, stalking what appears to be the ghost of Dr. Funk-n-Stine, star of the 70's TV show, Dr. Funk-n-Stine's Groovy Mad Lab. This ninth book in the Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew series will appeal to Scooby Doo fans and Cam Jansen readers, alike.

Similar authors: David Adler

Similar books: Cam Jansen series

Reviewed by: vfv

Date read: 10/31/2011

ISBN-13: 9781416936640

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In this third book of Nancy Drew's graphic novel series, River Heights is celebrating Nostalgia Week, and everyone in town is dressing up like it's 1930. No one is allowed to use modern day technology for the event. The fun is interrupted when the dolls in Emma Blavatsky's antique dollhouse start depicting crimes, that soon come true in real life. Nancy sets out to get to the bottom of this mystery, but, when she stakes out the dollhouse, she witnesses a doll version of herself murdered!

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 3/26/2009

ISBN-10: 1599610590

ISBN-13: 9781599610597

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Commenter: Dianna, grade 5

Summer starts on three bad notes for nine-year-old Abby; her best friend leaves for vacation, their new live-in babysitter, Hannah, is as scared and timid as she is, and her aunt sends another box of clothes that won't fit and a broken music box. When the music box starts to play by itself, and Abby and Hannah both see the ghost of an angry girl, things go from boring to frightening. Abby's eleven-year-old brother David makes things worse by playing tricks on Hannah and scaring her with his pet iguana. Hannah shows surprising resilience by refusing to be run off by mysterious happenings, and Abby might even impress her brother when she confronts the ghost. Don't read this one in the dark!

Similar authors: Mary Downing Hahn

Similar books: The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn; A Murder for Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner

Reviewed by: Donna

Date read: 8/16/2011

ISBN-10: 0590473557

ISBN-13: 9780590473552

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