En Garde (Nancy Drew: All New Girl Detective #17) [Paperback]

Carolyn Keene (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 25, 2006

If I told you I was worried about George's health because she's taken up fencing, you's laugh. Foils today are totally safe, and the gear is padded besides. Right?

Well, if so, why did I see blood at George's first meet? Skewering isn't in the legal fencing repertoire -- but it soon becomes apparent to me that someone's too fired up to care...

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About the Author

Carolyn Keene is the author of the ever-popular Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective and Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew series.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Aladdin; Original edition (April 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416906037
• ISBN-13: 978-1416906032
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,207,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon are the pseudonyms under which many ghostwriters penned the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, respectively. Both series were created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm, in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet, and syndicate writer Mildred Wirt Benson were the two people primarily responsible for bringing the iconic character of Nancy Drew to life in the minds and hearts of millions of readers around the world.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fencing to death?, February 13, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: En Garde (Nancy Drew: All New Girl Detective #17) (Paperback)

This book was one of the best of the new Nancy Drew books. Although Nancy doesn't face many bad times herself, some others get in some serious situations! The culpret was not who I thought it would be. But it got more obvious towards the end of the book. The new Nancy Drew books aren't that good due to a bad reason for the crime, but this is one of the better ones alltogether!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Well-written but dull story, July 14, 2006

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Bill Dewey/Reclaiming Quarterly (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: En Garde (Nancy Drew: All New Girl Detective #17) (Paperback)

Not like I have to have a bloody corpse in every mystery I read, but when the most harrowing incident in the entire book is a scratched wrist that requires a band-aid -- well, let's just say that there isn't much drama between these covers.

The characters? So many flavors of cardboard. The emotional palette stretches from chirpy to pouty and back again. The "modern" Nancy Drew has no more depth than her older namesake.

On the plus side, the book is well-written, reads easily, and the mystery worked -- I didn't guess the outcome in advance, but once it was unveiled, it made good sense.

For better mysteries, I would recommend Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best books ever!!! :D, January 25, 2012

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unicorn - See all my reviews

This review is from: En Garde (Nancy Drew: All New Girl Detective #17) (Paperback)

awesome. that is one word to discribe this book, totally awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, I LOVE THIS BOOK SOOOO MUCH. i just love it.