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Have you ever found a bottle of vampire breath well i have not but Freddy Martinez and his friend Cara have.
The main characters are Freddy,Cara,and Count Nightwing.
It started at Freddy's house they decided to explore his basement then they found a coffin but there was nothing in it. Then they found a bottle that said "vampire breath." And then a vampire rose out of the coffin after they opened the bad smelling air. His name was Count Nightwing he was begging them to open the bottle so he could get back home they did that but they came also it was a castle in the 1880s. Then they met a girl named Gwendolyn, she helped them but then she turned into one. So would they make it out alive find out in vampire breath. This is a great book for kids who like horror and an exciting plot. Thank you for listening to this book review i hope this convinces you to read this great book.

Let's just say this: The only scary part about Goosebumps books is the cover. It's not even THAT scary.

But the books are fun to read and I will recommend it.

The story is about vampires. Kids. Bottle. Blood. Thirsty. Basement.

Freddy and his friend Cara are tough. When Freddy and Cara were fighting in Freddy's basemen, Cara pushed Freddy into an old cabinet thayt fell revealing a secret door. They opended the secret door and walked into a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was another door. They opened the second door and walked in. Behind the door was a room with a coffin. They opend the coffin. All that was in it was a bottle of Vampire Breath. Freddy droped it and the cork poped off. When they were about to leave an old man apered. They thought he was dead when he got up and said "I'm thirsty, so very thirsty."
Boring, stupid and not scary at all. BAD BOOK DON"T READ IT!!!!

--Scottie Schaeffer age ten

Freddy Martinez and his friend Cara are the tough ones at school. One day, While wrestling on the floor Cara accidentaly bumped Freddy and they saw a secret door. They followed the tunnel until they saw another door. When they opened the door, They saw a coffin. they opened it and saw Vampire Breath. Then Count Nightwing shows himself. When he was at the room, It looks like Count N. got amnesia because he does not know what's he doing. He went back to his past and Freddy and cara was there too. When i was in the ending, Freddy found out that Count nightwing was his grandfather. So Freddy's family were a parents of vampire!. Meanwhile, Cara saw Werewolf Sweat that turned her into a werewolf!.

Vampire Breath 1/12/05 Vampire Breath is a book written a famous author, R. L. Stine. This book is from a series called Goosebumps. ( It's number 49.) It's perfect if you like confusing and funny stories. I love R. L. Stine's books, because he makes them funny and scary. This book is about a boy and his friend who wake up a vampire! In the end he finds out that he's a vampire too! It's fantasy because none of it can happen.

At first I thought this book was going to be boring but after I read this I thought it was great. That thats why I read the book at my favorite part. It was the time that Billy used the ice tea trick to keep himself from drinking a bottle of plankton Dr.Ritter made to enlarge sea animals but it will turn people into a fish forever. Good thing that didn't happen.

At first I thought this book was going to be boring but after I read this I thought it was great. That thats why I read the book at my favorite part. It was the time that Billy used the ice tea trick to keep himself from drinking a bottle of plankton Dr.Ritter made to enlarge sea animals but it will turn people into a fish forever. Good thing that didn't happen.

At first I thought this book was going to be boring but after I read this I thought it was great. That thats why I read the book at my favorite part. It was the time that Billy used the ice tea trick to keep himself from drinking a bottle of plankton Dr.Ritter made to enlarge sea animals but it will turn people into a fish forever. Good thing that didn't happen.

This book has a Califonia young readers award.It is about a boy who lives in arizona his dad is an ex-DEA agent he quit because his wife was killed in a car accident. The car was suppose to killthe father because he made a drug arrest against a drug runner. Now a hightec radar system has been stolen the father has been offered the job of getting it back but turned them down. The twist is that his son learned about this and decides to steal the plane he might even make a couple of friends in this exciting adventure.

Deep Trouble 2 is a suspensful and action packed book who will leave you wandering what will happen next!!This book is about two kids who go on a summer vacation with there uncle and his "on the sea lab". But when his uncle finds out how to make fish grow and lets just say that it gets alittle to big and makes everyone fear for thier lives..........

The Ghost at Skeleton Rock written by Franklin dixon is a very interesting book. In this book Frank and Joe Hardy investigate smuglers that leads them to islands in the Caribbean. The investigation starts when their friend Chet goes to buy a ventriloquist dummy. Frank and Joe find diamonds in the eyes which lead them to several suspects. They track them to Tropicale and find out even more about them. All the while the smuglers are tryin to catch them. The main characters are Frank, Joe, and Fenton Hardy and also Chet Morton. The Hardys are detectives from Bayport and Chet is their friend. Frank, Joe, and Chet are in high school. This story takes place in Bayport, and in the Caribbean. This is a mystery/adventure that will make you not want to put it down. It is very fast paced which is good for young boys that really dont like to read that much will like it. It is pretty similar to the other Hardy books because of the adventure and mystery. It is different because they are mainly by themselves and they have to deal with natives of the island. The style is third person point of view which is good because it keeps u wondering whats going to happen next. I really liked this book and I didnt want to put it down. I read this book everytime I had the chance. Most of the time during class which I got in trouble for. I would encourage anyone who loves adventure books to read this one.

This book was really good because there was a lot of action and unexpected things happened.

Hello my name is Aaron Fitzgerald and I am writing this review for my Literature class at school. This book number 37 in a great series is about 2 boys named Frank(16) and Joe(17) Hardy who solve mysteries. Together with the help of friends and family together solve international crimes. They have been on many perilous journies around the world together in search of mystery and danger. If you really enjoy a good mystery/danger book with plenty of action then read on to find out more about the book.

In the beginning of the book Frank and Joe recieve a message from their father(also a detective)that reads 'Find Hugo purple turban'. So they found a man named Hugo who had an assistant that wore a puple turban. Unfortunately the Hardy boys got tied up by Hugo and his assistant(Abdul)and they criminals escaped. Later when they went to buy a ventriloquist dummy it had a puple turban. Later after investigating the dummy they found uncut diamonds in the eyes. Ill stop there so you wll have to read the book to find out the rest so i wont spoil the ending.

I would reccomend this book to anyone likes books filled with action, mystery, and danger. Even if you dont after reading a coulple of Hardy Boy books you will. That is what happened to me. I love these books and now and have a collection of about 20-30 books. I really encourage all to read this book. You wont regret it.

A.F.

This book was a fantastic read. Iwould recomend it to everyone of all ages. my favorite character was joe. I also liked hugo and his turban. I cant wait to read the next book.

In quite a few books in this series Chet Morton's hobbies either are important to solving the mystery, or they lead to a mystery. Such is the case in this story. Chet is learning to become a ventriloquist, and he has saved enough money to purchase a dummy. However, it appears that dummies are very popular and Chet has a difficult time buying one. In a shop that has a dummy to sell, two men take a dummy that Chet is about to purchase at gunpoint! Fortunately, the proprietor has another dummy in stock.

Chet's dummy is damaged by accident, and suddenly the mystery becomes more complex when the boys discover raw diamonds in the dummy's glass eyes. The mystery continues to increase in complexity and danger when an extra suitcase containing a bomb appears on the Hardys' new plane. The boys also learn that the gang includes a member who looks a lot like Joe Hardy. The resemblance between the criminal and Joe will cause Frank and Joe difficulties throughout this mystery.

The mystery leads to Puerto Rico, where the boys encounter the criminals time and again, and yet seem to have difficulties learning what the criminals are up to, only that there is something sinister and complicated going on. Eventually the boys travel to a remote island where the natives are clearly restless, and where the huge ghost of skeleton rock lives. Soon after the story reaches its climax and the Hardys, Chet Morton and Tony Prito solve all the mysteries, including one involving a group of revolutionaries.

I thought the most intriguing part of this story occurred early on, when Frank and Joe Hardy and Chet Morton were trying to figure out what was going on with the dummy and the diamonds. After everyone went to Puerto Rico the story seemed to get a little weaker. The story also dates itself because the story describes Carib Indians that appear to be living a very archaic life. Given the size of the island and its location, it seems unlikely that the Indians were indeed Carib and it seems unlikely that they would still exist in the same condition today.

I find myself conflicted about this Hardy Boys mystery. The story had good portions, but there were also portions that left me wondering what the author was thinking. I happened to be reading another book about Puerto Rico at about the same time, "The Happy Hollisters at Lizard Cove," and I noticed the same lack of attention to detail. While I am prepared to forgive a few errors, this time the author appeared lazy and that decreased my reading pleasure. However, I am determined to read all the Hardy Boys books, regardless of their quality. If I had the ability, I think I would have given this story three and a half stars.

The publisher recommends the Hardy Boys series for ages 9 to 12 because the series is relatively tame for the previous target audience of ages 10 to 14. This particular book is a good fit for the new age range. Though the Hardy Boys series contains archaic information, as reading material for an increasingly younger audience they are good. Once a child has reached age 12 or so the stories may be of less interest, but given the combination of mystery and action, these books remain good safe choices for parents who want to know what their children are reading.

I just finished reading Little Toot to my 5 year old. He loved it as much as I remember loving it when I was his age.

I purchased this book as a present for my two year old and he loves it. The illustrations and brief story make it one of his favorites. We embellish it with extra little details here and there. I like it beacause it has survived the love and attention of my very destructive little man.

A wonderful child's book from the yesteryears--My mom read it to me as a child and it's just as great!

Much in the form of Thomas the Tank Engine, Little Toot presents the joy and foibles of life in a simple, easy to follow story line for children. The style is minimalistic but has plenty of emotion and guile.
Highly recommended. Read Little Toot to your little tot!!

This is a beautiful book with a great story. I always favor giving books as gifts to young children and seek out "the classics." This one fits the bill!

The poetry of Edgar Allen Poe is often taught in school because kids enjoy the horror aspect and the fact he is one of the first major writers in the US. This is a great guide for the poetry of Poe. The book explains the background of the poem nicely and provides a good introduction to his writing. Highly recommended.

I would not recommend this poem book to people unless they like reading this type of poetry, or poetry in general. While I was reading these poems, I found it very hard to concentrate on the poem I was reading, because the poems didn't really catch my interest. I don't think I would enjoy reading another poetry book bye Edgar Allen Poe because I don't really like his type of poetry. My mind wandered a lot while I was reading Poe's poems because they weren't exciting, they were sad, scary, and gloomy.

I use this video in my composition two literature classes. We read "Fall of the House of Usher," "The Raven," and "Hop Frog" and look for similarities between the lives of the characters Poe created and Poe's life. The video brings a great deal in insight to poe's work by revealing that his characters are not too far removed from his own circumstances.

I cannot think of a better way to introduce the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe than this small volume. The selection is excellent and of interest you the young reader. The commentary is quite relevant as are the pictures which accompany it. I find that often now, our young people go all the way through the early grades in school and many of them have never heard of Poe, much less read their poetry. This was the sort of stuff my generation and the generation before it grew up on and cut our teeth on. I do not feel I am any worse for the wear. I am fearful that we are bringing up an entire generation (rightfully or wrong, although I feel it is the later) of young folks who will have no appreciation to this great art form and will miss a lot. This book helps. This entire series helps, as a matter of fact and I certainly recommend you add this one and the others to your library. Actually, it is rather fun reading these with the young folk and then talking about them. Not only do you get to enjoy the work your self and perhaps bring back some great memories, but you have the opportunity to interact with your child or student. It is actually rather surprising what some of the kids come up with. I read these to my grandchildren and to the kids in my classes at school. For the most part, when I really get to discussing the work with them, they enjoy it. Recommend this one highly.

This is a great book by Edgar Allan Poe that is filled with great "Poe"ms. My favorite is the poem called "The Raven." Some of the poems are a bit scary, and there are some scary pictures. I would recommend it for ages 8+. There are also poems that you can't find in any of Poe's books because they are shortened versions of larger, unabridged poems. Also, some of the poems have to do with death. Thanks to Brod Bagert, (editor) Carolynn Cobleigh, (illustrator) and of course, Edgar Allan Poe.

How can you not love a Nancy Drew set in the world of ballet, painting and international politics? This case for the River Heights detective is one of her very best -- combining the plight of classically-trained ballet dancers with a gem-smuggling scheme that involves stolen paintings of -- you guessed it -- a dancer! (In fact, the paintings are painted by the male dancer, using his sister, the other dancer, as the model. Complicated enough for you?)

All the Nancys give some information, however trivial, about different cultures, the arts, or other interesting topics. This one, which discusses the history of ballet (and some of its techniques!), painting and smuggling, is one of the most fun. Nancy, of course, is equal to it all -- not only taking only the running of a ballet school in town but even taking over a dance solo in a big charity show. Throughout, there's tension, excellent clues and wonderful (read: bad!) villains -- who sure do deserve what they get!

Enjoy THE SCARLET SLIPPER MYSTERY ... if you love Nancy, you'll love this!

I gave this book a five because I liked the book. Well duh or i would have given it a lower star! Anyway this book had very good action in it. My faviourte part was when Nancy and her friends are in the farm house in Brandon. This part was the most exciting part. This was because they had just found a very important letter when, oh my gosh something happens. I guess you will just have to read the book to find out!!! Also I like Nancy Drew books because you never know what to expect! Well i guess thats why it is a mystery book. Like i said before Carolyn Keene uses very good description!! Claps for her yeah!!!!! Also if you like dance like ballet then you are in for a good one two of the maine charters are into ballet!!!! Thats the only reason I picked up this book, well also becasue I love Nancy Drew books!

i was suprised to see what some people rated this!!!i loved this is a great action packed book.there are tons of exiting parts in this mystery!!this is about nancy trying to find the people responsible for sending the notes to henri and helene fontaine and later on to stop the jewel smuggling and to find mr.koffs brief case and figure out why a women stole the scarlet slippers on helenes desk in the place she works for dancing ballet.this is a really good book despite some of the reveiws i would reccomend that you could buy it or if they have it at the library you
could check it out.

Sure Im a little old to be reading Nancy Drew books but who cares?
Any way this one is my Favorite because Ned and Nancy pretend to be married and almost ask Nancy to marry Him (almost He hints)
So thats why its my favorite because of the romance :-)
If you want more mystery read Nancy's myst. letter!

This book is full of surprises. I liked it also because I'm a lot like the main character, Nancy. She's adventurous and has good friends. Since I'm a lot like Nancy, it made it easier for me to relate to her and get through the book without being confused.
This book is about a picture of a famous dancer wearing a pair of scarlet ballet slippers. That picture was stolen from Paris. Nancy and her friends soon find out why. Four smugglers hid jewels in the picture and snuck it into the United States. They wanted to sell the jewels to make money. Nancy kept running into these people and started to suspect something. Were they staying in River Heights? Her friend Mr. Fontain she met painted the painting and was a dark person, just like the people she suspected of stealing the artwork. Also they were the only dark people in town. The bad guys were also sending threatening letters to the painter, to make him leave. These people will do anything to keep Nancy from knowing the truth about them. Even tryed to kill Nancy.
Will Nancy survive this mystery? Will the truth be told and the bad guys go to jail?

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes mysteries, especially Nancy Drew cases. If you like suspense and adventure, you're sure to like this book.

One of the most interesting ways to conduct social research is to read and study the changes in the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew series from their beginning to the present. Not only do they reflect the technological changes over time, they also demonstrate many changes in the social structure of the United States. In my opinion that is more evident in the Nancy Drew series than in the Hardy Boys.
The Nancy Drew series began in the 1930's when women were considered the weaker sex and there were few career opportunities for women. In the movies, women were portrayed as weak, subject to fainting at the first hint of danger. Therefore, even though Nancy and her female companions conformed to that stereotype, they were in fact ahead of the social curve for the time. They were aggressive in pursuing their goals, stood up in the presence of danger and were portrayed as being very intelligent.
This book was written in 1950, yet Nancy acts more like a rebellious girl of the late sixties. Even though she is warned of the dangers of pursuing the case, she never backs down and is even willing to physically fight with her attackers. When this plot is contrasted with the earlier books written in the 1930's, she is much more aggressive and that is a welcome change.
The plot involves an old sailing ship called the "Bonny Scot." There are many mysteries about the ship and the villains in this case keep searching it looking for something. Nancy stays on the case and learns that the original name of the ship was "Dream of Melissa." The ship was lost and the former captain had written a letter to his sweetheart telling her about the priceless gift he was bringing back. That unknown treasure is what the villains are looking for, yet the search is difficult. The "Dream of Melissa" has many secret places were things can be hidden and each must be searched. Furthermore, the original figurehead of the ship was a wooden lady and that was removed many years ago. Fortunately, Nancy is able to track it down and solve the mystery.
As a modern teen adventure story, this one is weak. However, if considered in the context of the early 1950's it was far ahead of its time. Nancy is brave, aggressive and willing to stand up to the villains by herself.

Although this book has some good qualities, it lacks behind "Clue of the Dancing Puppet" and "Mystery at the Ski Jump."

I loved the book; it was so wonderful. I liked it when the police and Nancy Drew caught the bad guys: old grizzle face, flip Fay, and red Quint (who wasn't really bad). They got the ruby to the right person. It was all good; a wonderful book... When...someone robbed Bess's house (Nancy's friend)...dun, dun, dun, it was very suspenseful and scary. It really grabbed my attention. I kept wanting to read and read. If you are a fan of mysteries, then you will thoroughly enjoy this book.

I loved the book; it was so wonderful. I liked it when the police and Nancy Drew caught the bad guys: old grizzle face, flip Fay, and red Quint (who wasn't really bad). They got the ruby to the right person. It was all good; a wonderful book... When...someone robbed Bess's house (Nancy's friend)...dun, dun, dun, it was very suspenseful and scary. It really grabbed my attention. I kept wanting to read and read. If you are a fan of mysteries, then you will thoroughly enjoy this book.

Amanda B. age 9

This story starts off like most of the Nancy Drew mysteries with her father, Carson Drew, asking her to help him with his case. When a robbery occurs at her friend Bess Marvin's home, Nancy is suddenly thrown into a mystery that leads her to Boston and a mysterious old clipper ship called the Bonny Scott and dangerous criminals.

With all this madness she begins one of her most dangerous, mysterious, and frstrating adventures of all time. With her friends, Bess and George, Nancy picks up many mind-boggling clues which lead her to meet the descendant of the Bonny Scott's captain's fiance. She will not only help a friend stay in his home and clear the mysterious Bonny Scott's title, she will also fill in the blank of a widow woman's history and help her thrive. She will also catch one of the most dangerous criminals in America.

I would recommend this book to people of all ages.
By Siobhan, Age 10

Probably one of the most important & influential writings of the late 20th. A very interesting hypothesis concerning the mystery of literary creation. Like Bukowski says: . `. . . if a writer ever discovered the reason he writes, he would cease to write.' Yup. I don't really dig psychology or analysis of that sort but this book does raise some interesting questions regarding past writers & why they wrote the way they did. Of course I am immune to this kind of anxiety, just like I'm immune to American television, especially the `news.' If you dig this kind of thing, check out Chomsky's stuff, a little overboard at times, but `Manufacturing Consent' will give you plenty to mull over.
Ever wonder why domestic TV news in the states is obsessed w/ crime stories `elderly woman assaulted & robbed in front of apartment last night . . .' instead of real news? The more paranoid people are, the less they're likely to commune. This makes each individual a ripe & ready consumer. Instead of going over to the neighbor's house to borrow some butter to bake a cake, returning a few hours later w/ a couple slices in return, you don't know the first names of the people living next to you & buy everything you need in tidy little individual (for the single or divorced) or family-sized (for the single-mother w/ kids) packs at the supermarket or Costco. That's America for you, `Land of Free.' Yeah right . . .

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David Bloom is probably the leading proponent of literary influence theory, and his thoughts have even spilled over into other arts (specifically into music -- see Mark Evan Bonds's AFTER BEETHOVEN and Joseph Straus's REMAKING THE PAST, for example); but his four books on influence are esoteric, to say the least. References require such a vast knowledge of poetry, literature, mythology, et al that his writings are beyond the casual reader. If you want to sink your teeth into something substantial, even controversial, start here!

Yes Bloom is a great and inspiring critic, a great creator himself. Yes, Bloom's work is filled with tremendously interesting insights into Literature,remarkable unexpected connections between creators who seemed so distant from each other.
No, Literature does not follow the simple law of progression, or the simple Law of a creator's strong reaction to the strong creators before. There are figures in Literature who in some way seem to be reacting to no one( Hopkins is one good example) and figures whose whole discourse is in absorbing the creation of others not to transcend them but to celebrate them.( Borges) There are also creators who however they may be influenced by others, as Kafka was influenced by Dickens and perhaps Kierkegaard, have such a unique way of seeing the world that they seem to be born of themselves. In Literature it is not necessary always to stand on the shoulders of Giants much less knock the Giant down if one is to move forward.
The laws of literary creation are as mysterious and individual as the next new voice which comes to the world. Quixote may over- ride the romantic chivalrous literature Cervantes parodies but he does this in a comically humane way that no one before or since has or could surpass.

I have previously described myself in a review as the most spaced-out poet on the planet, without describing the awful legal context in which such a view of myself is absolutely necessary. This book makes the context clear, but a general reader still might not understand how concrete this difficulty is because THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE is overtly a book about poetry, and hardly at all about exercising judgment. The page of the book where I left it open the longest, and where the book subsequently opened most easily, and which I read most often in the five weeks in which I was interested in this book, was page 58, which describes a poet who "experiences anxiety necessarily towards any danger that might end him as a poet." Without dwelling on the personalities of the people involved, it seems to me that the anxiety which this book is about is clearest in the case of the presidential election of 2000, in which the ability of the Florida Supreme Court to act as the ultimate judges of that opportunity to count ballots was subject to the power of the United States Supreme Court to judge the election in some way which would produce a result which would be opposite to what a majority of the Florida Supreme Court desired. (...)and poets can be much more open about what they are doing than judges, so it isn't too surprising that this book is about poets.

Freud and Nietzsche form a nice frame of reference for what is happening in this book. I kept looking for mentions of Rilke, which wasn't fruitful until page 99, the first page on "Daemonization or The Counter-Sublime." There it says, "History, to Rilke, was the index of men born too soon, but as a strong poet Rilke would not let himself know that art is the index of men born too late. . . . the dialectic between art and art, or what Rank was to call the artist's struggle against art . . . governed even Rilke, who outlasted most of his blocking agents, for in him the revisionary ratio of daemonization was stronger than in any other poet of our century." There is a page just before page 99 which quotes Emerson on the highest truth about all things going well, "long intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account." (p. 98). Emerson shows up again on page 138, with the idea, "Who seem to die live," to precede the final section of the book, "Apophrates or The Return of the Dead." This part doesn't relate well to law, particularly for a system which keeps thinking that a judgment like the death penalty might be considered final at some point.

People such as Camper-Mann simply don't understand Bloom's ground-breaking book. It is not a typical academic piece of theorizing. Bloom begins with his own aesthetic responses, and discovers that writers who came later in a tradition have a real difficulty finding an original vision or creating original work. Bloom then tries to work out a theory to account for this.

At no point does Bloom suggest that a deterministic process is at work here. The great poets defy determinism and struggle against it. It was not pre-ordained that John Milton would appear in the 2nd generation after Shakespeare. Milton's own creative will carved out a place for him among the great poets. However, Milton appeared after the greatest poet in the language, and his attempt to stand up to the Shakespearean achievement had a massive impact on his poetry. In the same way, Wordsworth and Shelley wrote differently for having read and absorbed Milton. These are historical facts that Bloom tries to account for.

As for T.S. Eliot, he was profoundly influenced by Walt Whitman's poetry, but turned back to Christian ideas in a way that Whitman and other modern poets had refused to do. That is what's wrong with Eliot's work. Christianity is not a very profound source for poetic inspiration in the modern age.

This is a great novel that I enjoyed. Every sentence keeps you reading. It's not one of those books that you get bored of and put it down. This book you do not want to end. Everything is so exciting. I could not put it down. Before i read this book i hated to read! But then i started reading these books and all i wanted to do was read. I'll say it again, this is a great novel!

This review concerns the original 1952 edition as well as the revised 1968 edition which is a shorter version of the original. Nacy investigates a woman named Mitzi Channing who is selling stolen furs and worthless stock to people. I don't know why the author titled this book "Mystery At The Ski Jump" because skiing and ski jumps have next to nothing to do with the mystery. The mystery is alright, but there isn't much action or suspence. The ending of the book is not bad, but it's another one of those boring "Nancy has nothing to do with actually capturing the criminals and only hears about it after the fact" endings. This is not a book that I'd strongly recommend.

I read this book and it was preatty good, but, I like some of the other Nancy Drew books better than this one. There aren't many parts that have to do with skiing so the title should have been something like "Mystery of the Forest Fur Company". Another thing is that you knew who the bad people were, start to finish. A good book, but I reccomend some of the other Nancy Drew books more than this. (I reccomend all of them :-D)

I loved this book because you just can't put it down! When ever something happens to Nancy I feel like it's happening to me! I feel like I'm Nancy when I read this book. You just get attached to the book. just like a real detective you want to solve the case.It makes you feel like your in the book. you don't know what your MISSING!!!!!!!!!!

Nancy Drew In The Mystery
At The Ski Jump


I liked this book a lot because the end of the chapters would pull you in to the next one. The Mystery At The Ski Jump by Carolyn Keene is a story that has kidnapping, running away from bad guys and snooping around. If you like books that have mysteries in them, you will like this book. The main character is Nancy Drew. She is smart and very sneaky. The book takes place at hotels, apartment buildings, ski jumps, and forests.
The big plot is that Mrs. Channing is selling fake stock to other people through the forest fur company. It all started when Mrs. Channing drove her car into Nancy's next door nabers front door. Then Mrs. Channing sold Nancy's baby sitter some stock, and that's when Nancy investigated the crime. When Nancy was in the woods she got kidnapped by two guys who said that she was too smart for her own good.
At the end of the book Nancy solves the mystery with her two friends and her aunt. The big problem was that their was someone using her name and identity. During that period of time that person had stolen from stores, and they were framing Nancy for all of it! I would recommend this book for 4-6 graders as an medium read book. There is also a whole series of Nancy Drew books so you can keep on reading.

For some reason the interior artwork was inferior to The clue of The Hissing Serpent - this volumes' successor. Shattered Helmut I found a fairly decent read. A lot of interaction with the criminals. I particulary liked the character Kitten Cole who was regretably caught early on page 136. The brothers travel to Greece (Don't care for that part). I compare all volumes with one another and like 90% of the higher volumes they are drastically inferior to the lower volumes. Call a spade a spade and do not give every book a 5 star rating. This book was ok - but worthy of nothing higher than a 2. RATED C

Frank and Joe help their pen pal Evan Pandropolos located an ancient helmet lost by Evan's uncle on a trip to the U.S. many years ago. Personally, I didn't care much for this book. It certainly isn't one of the worst of the series, but it could have been much better. I didn't find that the book was written particularly well and it could have used more action. I found the book disappointing for a number of reasons. For one, the most important clue to locating the helmet was given to the Hardys; instead of being something that they figure out for themselves. As well, while Frank, Joe and Evan are harassed by a couple of the crooks throughout much of the book, they hardly ever actually come into contact with them until the end of the book. The only one of the Hardy's friend to appear in the book is Chet and he is only in the beginning and the end. I can't say that I hated this book, but it did little to really keep me interested.

Frank and Joe are at it again. This is a well-written book that keeps you (or your kids) occupied. (Which is always good!) Definitely add this one to your Hardy Boys collection.

This book has lots of action, too much to say. But what I can say is that the plot is superb, especially the Hollywood movies in the book. I like those kind of movies. For example, the best Hollywood cartoon is probably the Flinstones. But enough about the movie stuff. My other favorite parts are about the Motorcycle Monsters, the floods, and the Corfu Cave battle. This was the ninth book I read. I really enjoyed it, and I'd think everyone should.

Not a bad book, this one. Rank it average among the series. I never liked the fact that I think after volume #37, the Sleuth was never mentioned or mentioned only rarely and that the Hardys never stayed in Bayport. The writers used other setting to eat up pages of writing, so instead of reading a mystery we were given a geaography lesson. For these reasons I drop the Shattered Helmet a couple notches, but it was good enough to warrant a 3 star rating.