Murder Aboard the California Girl (Luna, Rachel Nickerson.) (Eel Grass Girls Mysteries) [Paperback]

Rachel Nickerson Luna (Author)

Book Description

Series: Eel Grass Girls Mysteries

Mora Cortez and her yacht club friends discover a dead body on a fishing boat. When the body disappears and no one in town is missing, the Eel Grass Girls embark on their first mystery.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Luna is an artist writer who has an affecting narrative touch. -- ForeWord, April 2003

Rachel Luna has combined a murder mystery with a group of young sailors for a book you won't forget. -- Sophia Griscom, Sailor

We love the book! -- Drew Carlson, Sailing Master, Stage Harbor Yacht Club

About the Author

Rachel Nickerson Luna learned to sail at Sea Pines Camp, Brewster, CApe Cod and Stage Harbor Yacht Club, Chatham, Cape Cod. She also crewed at the rival Chatham Yacht Club. She won the 2000 Championship Award for the Stage Harbor Adult Sailing School.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Emma Howard Books (June 4, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886551073
• ISBN-13: 978-1886551077
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,156,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In the Wake of Nancy Drew, November 18, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Murder Aboard the California Girl (Luna, Rachel Nickerson.) (Eel Grass Girls Mysteries) (Paperback)

The series is set in a fictional Cape Cod town, where four feisty preteens have become friends while attending the local yacht club's sailing school. Mollie, Abigail, Laura and Muffy form a secret mystery club, the Eel Grass Girls, whose motto is "do the right thing." They are given ample opportunity when they learn that their quaint seaside communtity has a dark side.
Heather Freckmann, Sailing magazine, November 2003

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite books, May 29, 2003

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This review is from: Murder Aboard the California Girl (Luna, Rachel Nickerson.) (Eel Grass Girls Mysteries) (Paperback)

I have to say that this book is the best. I know the author and she really did a good job on it. It's the type of book you can't put down. The book is about four girls who meet at the Yacht Harbor Sailing School: Muffy, Mollie, Laura and Abigail (The Eel Grass Girls), who find a dead body on an old fishing boat. And then that body disappears before anyone besides them could come and investigate. They decide to team up together and try to find out about this body and prove it was really there to other people, and they do much more than only that..

I will say it again: I LOVED this book. It was absolutly amazing. I couldn't put it down. I literally read it in 2 hours it was so good. I recommend it to every one.

5.0 out of 5 stars Murder Aboard the California Girl, October 28, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Murder Aboard the California Girl (Luna, Rachel Nickerson.) (Eel Grass Girls Mysteries) (Paperback)

The book Murder Aboard the California Girl is a great mystery. It is about these four girls, the Eel Grass Girls, that are a group that loves to solve myterires. They are in a sailing classfor the summer, and while sailing, they see a dead body on the California Girl. They then try to solve the mystery about, but end up with a huge mystery hat was involved in the killing.
I really liked the book because it was very suspenseful and I love mysteries! At times I didn't like it so much because sometimes the author would confuse you with the characters, so it was a little hard to comprehend, but al and all it was a good book. My favorite character was Laura. She had a very good attitude about things, and she would not stop something without finishing it first.
My favorite part was on p. 59 when Laura was a t the Nor' Easter looking for the waitress, but only found Billiy who seemed very suspicious about why she anted the book that will keep you on you feet the whole time you read it.
The one question I have about that boook is: Why did the author write the book? Did she have past experience with this sort of thing or did one day it just pop into her mind? My strongest recommendation for the book is that it is really suspenseful and will keep you awake! I didn't want to put it down when I was reading it.