Don't Judge a GIrl By Her Cover

Hello there! Sorry I haven't posted in a LONG time. I got discouraged that this blog would ever get publicity. But then I remembered that I need to keep on writing even though people might not visit. Unlike as I promised last time, today I'm giving a brief summary about New York Times best selling author Ally Carter's book, Don't Judge a Girl By Her Cover.

Boston, Massachusetts is bustling because Senator McHenry is there to accept his nomination as Vice President of the United States from Governor Winters. Cammie Morgan comes to Boston to visit the senator's daughter Macey, who is her roommate.

Cammie Morgan is the narrator of this story. She is destined to be a spy like her parents, going to the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women in Roseville, Virgina. Although her past says otherwise, she doesn't like lying, or snooping, especially when it involves people she loves. It's strange, I know, that she's like this when it's the family business to snoop and lie.

Macey McHenry used to be a typical girl with a big attitude. But then she came to school at the Gallagher Academy. She LOVES the fact that she spends 90% of her life on campus, away from her parents. She also enjoys that she has a secret about her school to keep: that it's a school for spies.

Cammie is led to her friend by a Secret Service agent. She mentions that there are two kinds of people in her world: those that know the secrets of the Gallagher Academy, and those who don't. When she gets to the hall of her roommate's hotel room, she can hear her screaming in anger. She is being the head strong girl that had come to her school a year ago. She was complaining that the Governor's son ( potential first son ) sent her a gift. When the girls are alone, she says that her attitude served as her cover for the summer.

An hour or so later, the girls ( and Preston Winters ) find themselves in a dangerous situation. They were in the middle of a kidnapping attempt! The girls use their karate skills to fight off their would-be kidnapper(s), only to run away into a laundry shoot, where Cammie gets a concussion and Macey breaks her arm.

Many questions follow: who were trying to kidnap Macey? What do they want from her? Al l these questions are given a suspenseful, dramatic twist at the end of the book. The girls, including their other roommates, Liz and Bex, investigate only to find a shocking truth.

This book is great for several reasons. But I advise you read the first two books in the series before reading this one. I hope you won't lose hope in this blog! Thanks, bye

The Hidden Staircase

As promised, here is a brief summary of the second Nancy Drew Mystery, The Hidden Staircase

This story is about eighteen year old, Nancy Drew, being asked by her friend, Helen Corning to come to her great grandmother's mansion, Twin Elms, to solve the mystery of the ghost haunting the house and scaring her and her daughter, Helen's great aunt Rosemary.

Helen Corning is a brunette, fun loving girl. Though nearly three years older then her, she and Nancy are great friends. Later, a man named Nathan Gomber comes to warn Nancy that her father is in great danger and that she should stick close to him.

Nancy's father is a well know lawyer in River Heights, Nancy's hometown. In fact, Nancy's first case to get publicity from ( she had helped her father many times ) was passed down to her to take care of personally by her father!

Nancy doesn't take the warning about her father too seriously. But, she had to admit she might be better off to stick by him, though it would mean giving up the new mystery she was asked to solve!

That night, when Nancy's father came home, he didn't take his daughter's relay of the warning any more serious then a joke. But, when Nancy mentioned the name Nathan Gomber, his expression changed completely.

Later, after having dinner, Mr. Drew assured Nancy that he was in no danger, and gave her his permission to go to Cliffwood to solve the mystery at Twin Elms.

It's an over one hundred page book, which includes action, suspense, and Nancy saving her father from a colonial dungeon along the passageway underneath Twin Elms and Riverview Manor, the neighboring property. All's well that ends well. I deeply recommend this book to readers young and old.

Next week, I will review the Hardy Boys' Mystery, The Clue in the Embers.

Intro: All About Books

Hi! I'm Miss Cellaneous. In this blog, I will name my favorite books and describe them. Also, I will encourage young kids to read and find their own interests. I will try to make a post every Monday. Who doesn't want something to look forward to on Monday, right?

I will mainly describe Nancy Drew books, but sometimes I will post about others! Carolynn Keene is one of my FAVORITE authors. Only recently ( don't think me naive because of this ) did I discover that Carolynn Keene is a pen name, and that she also wrote the Hardy Boys.

I haven't read any Hardy Boys yet. I only know from friends that Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys are somewhat simailar. All that I know is that they both have friends that are blonde, and eating is mainly their hobby.


I know I probably shouldn't spoil anything, but The Hidden Staircase is what my first official post is going to be about