Initial Thoughts: Definitely a book for younger readers. Simple plot with clear clues. Assumes prior knowledge of Nancy Drew. Full review to come.

Just as good as the rest!!!

Okay fine!!! Won't dare to read any such thing again and punish myself.

2011.6.14 9436words

This is #4 in the Nancy Drew notebooks story where Nancy and her friends are in elementary school and solve mysteries. In this case Nancy and the others are taking ballet and are to perform, but someone has stolen the tape with the music and it seems that there will be no performance held. There are several suspects, as usual. They manage to solve the mystery and the performance goes well.

To quote George Fayne: That was fun! :)

I thought this was part of the Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew series when I saw it in the library catalogue, but it turned out to be from a completely different series. It was still incredibly adorable, though, and I wish my library had more of these books! Looks like this is the only one they have, which is kinda weird.

2.5

Nothing at all wrong with this, it just left no impact on me. The audiobook (on double speed) is less than an hour so I listened to it this afternoon while doing some cleaning and that was that. :)

A good day for ballet! I read this to my daughter in one sitting—that’s an automatic five stars. We had fun talking about all the ballet terms in the story, she recognized them all from her ballet class.

I like these stories because they seem to have sympathetic villains or misunderstandings. There’s no “bad guy.”

One criticism: my daughter asked if boys were allowed in Nancy’s ballet class—there weren’t any. This was a good opportunity to talk about how boys and men are ballet students and dancers.

a really good story where nancy's friend bess get framed when a tape goes missing that has the recital music on it and nancy trying to find out who really did it

Definitely got the Nancy Drew vibe right. I did figure it out, and enjoyed the story.

One of my most important reading goals this year is to finish this series. It's been pending since too long -_- These books are like a small break from reading full length novels to me and they're pretty okay.