Nancy Drew
A Novelization of the Hit Movie
by Daniella Burr · first published 2007
13% recommend79% neutral8% critical
Nancy Drew, the cleverest sleuth in River Heights, is always on thecase -- no matter how dangerous it may be! Now Nancy's taking her sleuthingto a whole new level as she accompanies her father to Los Angeles,though her dad thinks she's renounced sleuthing forever. Afterdiscovering a long-unsolved crime involving the death of a beautifulmovie star, Nancy vows to uncover the mystery. With a little help fromsome new friends, Nancy is well on her way to cracking this case. But isNancy in over her head in the fast-paced world of Hollywood?
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…are tons of options depending on what sort of stories you like. A few ideas and favorites: - The Goosebumps series is popular. - There are a lot of middle grade mystery series like the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew - A few of my personal favorites from childhood: The Pushcart War; Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH; A Wrinkle in Time; The Phantom Tollbooth; the Chronicles of Narnia (warning: heavy Christian symbolism);…
on “Ask HN: How get started with reading books?” ↗Growing up I read a lot of the Nancy Drew books that my sister would borrow from the library and her friends. I got hooked on reading because of these books. Short and fast paced, I generally liked them better than the Hardy Boys. Being a guy…
on “Nancy Drew in Starlight” ↗…and value forever. Also get her DVDs of some of the movies from American Girl. They may also have some retail stores it would be better for her to visit than that fake comic book store. For books, maybe Nancy Drew? Or something similar but more recent? Since she's seven, a girl, and bright, it may be that she could get good at French with blinding speed -- try to find a way. Talk to some people who know about…
on “What taking my daughter to a comic book store taught me” ↗My oldest daughter could read at age four. By second grade, in a Texas public school, she liked to read Nancy Drew mysteries on her own. One day she came home from school crying and told us she didn't want to go back -- she said she had got in trouble for reading her book. Her mom and I went to talk to the teacher.…
on “Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun” ↗…a thoughtless menace to everyone else around them without a shred of empathy. That’s great if you’re an adult who hates kids but as a kid, I didn’t want to identify with the characters at all. I know Nancy Drew/the Hardy Boys were perhaps unrealistically intelligent for their age but I read them because I wanted to be like them. Why would I read about people who personify all the things I hate about myself?
on “Beverly Cleary has died” ↗…create new hits. Record labels and producers apparently have it down to a (data) science. Some may point out that mass-produced "pop literature" is not really new: for instance, the entire Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew series was just that. However, since this is not a widespread practice so far, (almost) nobody has complained about it. But once this data starts getting used more and more, and feedback loops get more…
on “As New Services Track Habits, the E-Books Are Reading You” ↗To me, this is the best news I've heard all day. See, used books made me - my local library as a kid was heavy on Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys, and decades-old travel guides, not so much on other subjects. I very distinctly remember wanting to find Catch-22 and not only was it not available from my local, it wasn't available at…
on “E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far from Dead” ↗…worlds problems without you. When the story line is "we're under seige by the forces of evil" and your character, through a series of quests, singlehandedly overwhelms all that evil? Its like reading Nancy Drew mysteries instead of Agatha Christie mysteries. To simplified to be enjoyable. Then there is Eve Online, which is similarly durable to WoW and yet has a much larger percentage of retained adult participants.…
on “Halo Creator Unveils Its Next Masterpiece, a Persistent Online World ” ↗…waiting lists), so we enrolled her in public school. After a few weeks she got in trouble for reading a book in class "above her grade level" according to the teacher. She was in second grade reading a Nancy Drew book, bored waiting for the other kids to learn how to read. She cried about going to school after that because the teacher shamed her in class. So we didn't make her go and let her do her own thing.…
on “Ask HN: Planning for Parenthood” ↗…Arden Are ones that stand out. I'm sure a lot of other books helped shape my worldview though, especially ones I read as a kid. The "Tom Swift Jr." adventures, the "Three Investigators" stories, the "Nancy Drew" and "The Hardy Boys" ones, and those "Encyclopedia Brown" books all stand out in my memory as probably being influential. And later in life, I'd say Dean Koontz' work has had something of an impact.
on “Ask HN: what non technical books changed your life ?” ↗As a Hoosier (a person from Indiana) I've always thought the same thing. We never called a pizza a pie. When I was young, though, I saw the term "pie" used in a Nancy Drew novel, and I've seen the phrase "pizza pie" as well. Obviously they're related, and equally obviously there's some regional variation, but ... whatever the region is, Indiana is outside it.
on “How an Engineer Does Pizza” ↗Not a female, but growing up I read every Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and Goosebumps book I could get my hands on. In my opinion this trait exists for all genders.
on “What gig workers can learn from romance writers” ↗I read the 1960s versions of the Hardy Boys and The Nancy Drew when I was ~9. I still own most of them. My mother read everything. The house was full of books. At some point over the years having my own family and moving around a bit the books got cut down to only…
on “Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (2017)” ↗> although I think I subbed in Trixie Belden I never read any of those, but that reminds me, I left off the "The Hardy Boys" and "Nancy Drew" stories from my original list. Those were also frequently read in my home as a kid. :-)
on “Mad Scientists' Club: The Books” ↗So much discussion about children's books, yet they don't mention The Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, Rick Brandt, Ken Holt, Nancy Drew, Dig Allen, Tom Corbett, Dana Girls, Trixie Belden, Donna Parker, Brains Benton, Power Boys, Sandy Steele, Biff Brewster, Judy Bolton, and all the shenanigans of the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
on “No one buys books” ↗