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Mandie and the Dark Alley (Mandie, Book 33)

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Mandie books are great for all ages of girls. I think if you are like me and started reading them when you were very young and now are much older than the reccomended reading level, you are drawn to know how Mandie grows up. I will always love these books no matter how old I get. They show how growing with God is definitly difficult, yet, it is possible. I hope you will hold on to your books for your girls and treasure them always.

Highly recommended and wonderfully entertaining reading, Mandie And The Dark Alley is the latest title in Lois Leppard's wonderful series of adventures for young readers featuring Mandie and her faithful cat Snowball. This time Mandy is back at school when she and Celia have to cut through a dark alley to avoid being late. Mandie's locket falls off somewhere during the journey and the creepy passageway must be searched by lantern light. What they discover behind the dilapidated old warehouses come as a shock to Mandie!

This was another great title in the Mandie series. Mandie and her friend Cecila decide to go through the creepy and dark alley to get back to school on time. However when the girls get spooked Mandie's bracelet falls off. The next time they go back to the ally they find Mandie's bracelet and Mandie feels there is something very weird about the alley. Around the same time valueable items disappear all around town. Could the dark alley be connected to all this? Another great Mandie mystery.

Actually, I havent read this book yet (maybe i shouldnt be talking) but from the reviews ive seen it must be a big disapointment... but give poor Lois abreak, some people say she should make mandie more mature, than others say she should keep her original personality! and also after writing as many books as she has, ideas start to run out, but all her readers want more!

This book is really great. Read it!

I was disapointed with this book because in the "seaside rendevous", Mandie was talking all about how she and her friends were planning out their summer and they were going to visit each other's houses and everything, and then in this book, being the next one in the series, it skips over the summer, and goes stright to the fall! What happened here?
And also, I think the books need to start developing her relationship with Joe a bit more. He should be in more of them, and he and Mandie should get closer.

The Mandie books are an excellent way to start and end your day! This one is especially good because It again contains the brilliant talent of Mrs Leppard it contains heroism love and a since of being closer to God when your through with them. They are excellent for readers of all ages!

While I have long enjoyed the Mandie series, I feel that this book is too full of historical inaccuracies to enjoy fully. As a young Victorian lady of means, Mandie by this time would have had it drummed into her that she is not to do anything that might damage her reputation. The European voyage with Jonathon was bad enough, but having Mandie deliberately go to a place where she could very well have something horrible happen to her is so out of character for the time. There's no way that a real Heathwood's would have allowed her or Celia or April for that matter to continue their education there with the questionable mark on their reputation, regardless if one of their grandmothers did own the school. I know that the books are written for children, but still, there has to be some recognition of the mores of the age that Mandie grew up in.

Takeing a shortcut back to shcool one night, Mandie and Celia almost miss their curfew when Mrs. Tafts ( Mandies grandmother )
rig breaks down in a dark, mysterious alley. During thier brief stop, Mandie heres some suspicious noises coming from a werehouse. But everyone says its not a safe place for young girls to be, so the alley is off limits.

Back at Mrs. Tafts mansion, a priceless heirloom disappears. It must been stolen, even though theres no sign of enyone breaking in-and nothing else seems to be missing. Mandie, convinced the theft is somehow connected to the alley, determines to recover the valuable antique for her grandmother.
How can she get back there to envesigate?

Mandie is back at school again, and she's itching for an adventure. And she seems to have found it when she thinks she hears a puppy in a dark alley. The problem is, that alley is off-limits. But Mandie will stop at nothing to find it, even if it means breaking the rules and sneaking off after curfew.
Things get worse when Mandie loses her locket and her grandmother's silver tea set is stolen. Now Mandie simply has to go back to the alley...even if it means getting in major trouble.

I was supremely disappointed with this book. Mandie was just too...disobedient. Normally I like it when the characters are a bit human, but this is way out of hand. This isn't being human, this is sheer stupidity! Just when I thought Mandie was learning something from all those lessons she gets in the other books, she goes and does this crazy thing. But she does get severely punished, if that's any consolation.
Maybe it's just me, but this has got to be one of the worst books in the entire series. Read it if you must, but don't put too much stock in it.