By Carolyn Keene
Illustrated by Anthony Accardo
Simon & Schuster, 1994
Genre
Mystery
Awards
None Known
Review
For parents who loved reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories growing up, Keene has created a series intended for younger readers so they can begin loving Nancy's sleuthing skills even earlier! This series opener finds Nancy working to solve her first mystery, what happened to her friend Rebecca's party invitations and who is threatening to ruin her party? Using cleaver techniques, Nancy matches handwriting of her classmates to a threatening note Rebecca found, investigates desks looking for clues, and trying to get to the bottom of the mystery. In true sleuthing style, she cracks the case the night of the party. Readers are introduced Bess and George, best friends of Nancy even in the original series. A good mystery that younger children will love seeing if they can solve before Nancy does!
Opinion
Definitely intended for a younger audience, this book contains much larger print and simple full page illustrations that will keep young readers involved. In the cover illustration, the children look like real people, but in the book's black and white illustrations, the characters look more like Barbie dolls, which I thought was unnecessary.
Ideas
A great way to introduce the lowest of the tween age range to mysteries, this book would be great to read to a younger class to see if they can solve the mystery before Nancy.
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