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Carregando... Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Blinking Eye (1963)de Kathryn Kenny
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A childhood favorite re-visited. Is the story as good as I remember? – Yes What ages would I recommend it too? – Ten and up. Length? – Most of a day’s read. Characters? – Memorable, several characters. Setting? – Real world, pre - computer pre - air conditioning, pre - cell phone. Written approximately? – 1964?. Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? – Ready to read more. Any issues the author (or a more recent publisher) should cover? Yes. A slight mention of the time frame of the story - as the teens are given far more freedom to come and go as they please than would be safe today. Also, the absence of computers, cell phones, and air conditioning in homes, especially the mansion. Short storyline: Trixie Belden buys a statue at a antique store in New York City. While the group, and their friends from Iowa visit tourist destinations, three thieves constantly work to steal the statue back from Trixie. Notes for the reader: A great mystery! No violence (only referred to from the past), no murder. This is one of the more harrowing one, in which one thief threatens Trixie with a gun towards the end of the novel. In this one, Trixie and her friends go to New York to meet some friends who are visiting from Iowa. Trixie helps a Mexican woman at the airport, and the woman rewards her with a ~prophecy~ lol (she's a fortune teller that has been run out of NYC by the evil police - HA!). The prophecy is in Spanish, but when Miss Trask translates it to English it is in rhyming couplets (double lol!). Anyway, the prophecy is sort of a red herring; the real story is about a vicious gang of jewel thieves that stalk Trixie throughout the city. She finds the stolen jewels and catches the crooks, of course! One superfunny thing about this one was that Mr. Wheeler and another random character both called out Miss Trask on her shoddy "nanny" skills, letting Trixie get kidnapped by murderous thugs being just one of the many times she fell down on the job in this book. Oh, Miss Trask! I loved this series when I was growing up; I thought Trixie was a lot more fun than Nancy Drew, and these were some of my all-time favorite books. I read them as an adult, though, a few years ago, and found that they haven't, IMO, stood the test of time well. They are obviously dated, and there are some messages that I don't think are appropriate anymore (mostly the way Trixie is treated differently - and often poorly - because she's a girl). sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
The Bob-Whites, plus their friends from Iowa, add detective work to their New York City sightseeing trip after Trixie helps a stranger and receives, as thanks, a purse containing a cryptic prophecy and a promise of great fortune. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This adventure for the group in NYC was fun to read! The kids are having fun touring New York, and trying to figure out why strange people seem to want the ugly little statue the woman gave Trixie in the airport. Dan Mangan is back in action, after several books where he didn't figure into the story. I was glad that the newest Bob-White got to go on this trip with everyone. The kids from Happy Valley Farm blended well with the usual main characters. The suspense in the story was entertaining and fun....and not too scary for kids to enjoy the story. Another fun visit with the kids from Sleepyside, NY!
The Trixie Belden Series was published from 1948-1986. The first six books were written by Julie Campbell. Various other authors under the pen name Kathryn Kenny wrote the rest of the series. ( )