Generations of girls have grown up reading the Nancy Drew books about a young woman detective, and I grew up reading them too. “Wedding Day Disaster” is a new book about the famous Nancy Drew character, this time as a younger girl, a third-grader, who solves mysteries.
It’s Sara and David’s wedding day and eight-year-old Nancy Drew and her friends George Fayne and Bess Marvin are the flower girls. But someone has cut a big slice out of the wedding cake. The bride cries. Is her big day ruined?
Who cut the big slice out of the wedding cake? The bride cried and cried about someone cutting a big slice out of her cake. The one that committed the crime is the one is going to have cream cheese on them. And someone left a footprint on the cake – Nancy has to find out who.
A dog that can sniff out clues (unless he has a cold), a lady that makes the best cupcakes in her little town, and Nancy – a go-getter and a super sleuth who didn’t want anything else to get in the way of her “clue crew” solving the crime – are all in this book together. Read it and see the interesting ways this crime can be solved – the “wedding day disaster.”
At the end Nancy says “this mystery was a piece of cake,” because everything ended just great.
“Wedding Day Disaster” is aimed at the younger reader, but I enjoyed it too, and it was easy reading. If you’ve ever loved Nancy Drew then you should read this book. This book brings out the kid at heart.
“Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew” #17 “Wedding Day Disaster” by Carolyn Keene, illustrated by Macky Pamintuan, Aladdin Paperbacks 2008.
