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Confessions of a Teen Sleuth
Confessions of a Teen Sleuth
Author: Chelsea Cain
"If you are reading this, then I am gone and this manuscript, per my instruction, has been delivered to the writer Chelsea Cain for publication as she sees fit..." — America's favorite girl detective is back to set the record straight. According to our titian-haired heroine, she was not a fictional character, but an intrepid real-life sle...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781582345116
ISBN-10: 1582345112
Publication Date: 4/1/2005
Pages: 208
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  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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3.4 stars, based on 18 ratings
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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reviewed Confessions of a Teen Sleuth on + 287 more book reviews
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When I was younger, I loved Nancy Drew books and also enjoyed many other mystery series (The Hardy Boys and Trixie Belden especially). This book was a fun look at the "real" Nancy Drew, including what happened to her as she got older. I loved all of the allusions to the books - and not only Nancy Drews - so many others as well! Some of the stories didn't completely work for me, but overall I enjoyed them.
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Ah, Nancy Drew. We only thought we knew you. Now she is setting the record straight and we'll know what was really going on with her and Ned.
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Chelsea Cain has done a wonderful job of taking my favorite characters from my youth--Nancy Drew, Ned Nickerson, the Hardy Boys (Joe & Frank), the Bobbsey Twins, and several more--and turning them into a 21st-century novel that had me laughing out loud throughout the entire story.

Granted, THIS story is probably not for the teen-set, unless your son or daughter is more mature. The Nancy and friends of THIS book drink and smoke, make out, have sex and even an affair, and in general aren't as perfect as their former counterparts. That said, however, CONFESSIONS OF A TEEN SLEUTH is a thoroughly enjoyable book that reads as a series of mysteries solved, of course, by the aging Nancy Drew. She starts out as the teen sleuth of the 1920's, and ends up an octogenarian in her 80's in the 1990's.

Very funny and amusing, I'm glad I picked up a copy of this book!
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This book certainly has its moments, but even taken as a parody I was disappointed with it. The premise: Carolyn Keene takes copious notes of her roommate Nancy Drew's stories and makes a fortune off the books she writes, and Nancy wants to set the record straight. The problem is that she didn't write summaries of the cases in the Nancy Drew books, it was a memoir of her later years. Some of the stories were hilarious, and also the fact that she always carries a magnifying glass, but the whole thing was Nancy Drew - Good girl gone "bad". It was worth a read, but I found it just a bit disappointing.


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