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Nobody's There

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Joan Lowery Nixon was one of my favorite authors when I was younger. So when I saw she had come out with a new book, I picked it up. Like years ago, I started reading and couldn't stop. It is the story of Abby, who is put on probation and forced to do commnity service by staying with an old lady a few times a week. Unfortunately, she is stuck with a difficult woman who is convinced that she is a private investigator and mystery-solver. She drags Abby all over town and catches a few small-time crooks before finding a "big case" - so big that she won't tell Abby - the only one who knows is her private journal. When the old lady is attacked and in a coma, Abby must crack the case before she is attacked as well. Like always, this is a suspenseful, detailed story; another good one by Nixon.

Nobody's There starts off like this, Abbie gets mad at her father for leaving her and her mother and brother, and commits a crime with out thinking. The judge asigns her to a program called Friend to Friend, where she gets assigned to a crabby old lady, Mrs.Murkle. Mrs.Murkle sees herself as a private investigator. She knows the scoop on everyone.

One day Abbie goes over to Mrs.Murkle's house, to find Mrs.Murkle sprawled on her living room floor with a major head injury. Abbie vows to find who tried to kill Mrs.Murkle.

The plot isn't too original. It's kind of boring at times and the end wasn't really exciting. To me the most disappointing thing in the book was the ending. It didn't really have a climax. But, it was okay. I wouldn't read it again.

This book is a really nice book for people who like mistery books. Even though the book is not really mystery It still contains the information to keep you turning the pages. This book has fascinated me to the lesson not to make crimes or peoplle might send to a place where you would have never thought you could be friends with anybody, especially if they pu you with someone in a bad tempered person like Mrs.Merkel. Another lesson there to learn is not to make some aggresive people mad so they if realesed could come and crush you down as the investigators thought that the people she cought were the ones to go after her and bruise her so she had to go to the hospital. But the person who attacked her was really smarter then the planings of Mrs.Merkel. The person who attacked, was the most hated person in mrs.Merkels life. The only part that was a mystery in the good book written by Joan Lowery Nixon is when Mrs. Merkel wa attacked and Abbie and other people tried who might have attacked mrs.Merkel. However Abbie is not alone in her family to be on her case. Her mother Mrs.Thomson is only giving a little support to any of the cases , by just giving Abbie her car. But her little brother Davy is on the case with a notebook and some Questions he is able to help Mrs.Merkel to find a person who attacked her. At first everyone thought that it was a person from their book club,which later turned into Bucklers bloodhounds. Mrs .Merkel was the one who participated the most. She cought two crooks and she says that she never got any credit for her hard job. So in conclussion I really enjoyed this book. TYhe book kept me turnin the pages of the book.

I thoroughly enjoyed Joan Lowery Nixon's, "Nobody's There!" Not only was it another awesome thriller from Ms. Nixon, but it was also a great family story...
The storyline revolves around a girl named Abbie. Her father recently left her, her mother, and her brother for another woman. One night, while Abbie is spying on her father and his new romance, she becomes so furious when she sees her kiss him, that she begins to throw rocks at her window.
Now in trouble for malicious mischief, Abbie's judge understands (to a certain point) what Abbie is going through, and puts her on probation. For a punishment, she is put in the Friend to Friend program, which is a program in which high-schoolers visit and look-after elderly women a few times a week.
When Abbie is assigned to Mrs. Merkel (an extremely grumpy woman who is totally disagreeable), she considers quitting, but hangs in there. Mrs. Merkel is a part of a book club, which is turned into Buckler's Bloodhounds (a new program where elders try to stop other elders from being tricked by con artists).
Mrs. Merkel gets way too involved, thinking she is a real private eye, which could be dangerous...
One day, Abbie decides to skip a visit to Mrs. Merkel's, but afterwards feels guilty. So, later that night, Abbie goes to visit Mrs. Merkel only to find her laying in a pool of blood. Mrs. Merkel ends-up in a coma, and Abbie is determined to find the culprit. Could it be someone who was tired of her meddling around, and decided to put an end to it? Or is it something deeper than that? Find out in the stunning novel, "Nobody's There!"

Besides "A Deadly Game of Magic" (another book by Nixon), this book is my favorite Nixon book. I had bought quite a few of her books, and began to get bored with them. They are all about the same thing!- A teenage girl who lives in/ near Texas, and something wrong happens. Don't get me wrong, some of the books have their own twists that make them stand out (like Nobody's There), but that is the general idea. This book is about a girl, Abbie, that is mad at her father and his new girlfriend, and she throws rocks at his girlfrieds' window. She gets arrested, and the judge says that if she helps a senior citizen for a year, ahe will get off easy. The problem is, that she gets assigned to Mrs. Merkel, and cranky, and fussy old lady that has already had two other girls assigned to her. Mrs. Merkel becomes a "private eye" and when she gets a big lead on a mystery, she ends up clubbed on the head, in a coma, and in the hospital. It's finally up to Abbie to catch this person(s) and she does so with the aid of a notebook that Mrs. Merkel used to write her clues in. Once again, this book is very good, and has several twists and turns in the book that makes you want to keep on reading.

Nobody's There is a great mystery. Abbie Thompson is mad at her dad for breaking up there family.Abbie acted without thinking and got arrested for maclicious mischief.The juge assiended volentary work that maches teens wth eldery wemen.Abbie got mrs.Merkel a crankey, difficult women who is a active member of the towns crime prevention group. Mrs.Merkel is attacked and is hopitlized. Suddenly the private investgator game is real.Abbie is set off on an adventure to find the attacker.

I recommeneed this book to all mystery fans and I know for a fact you will not put the book down.

Abby, a troubled girl on probation, is assigned to care for a horrible old lady (you'll hate her) and is drawn into a mystery when said old battleax is mugged in her home.Who would want to hit old Mrs.Cottingly with a perfectly good and expensive horse statue.

i thought this book was boring... Maybe for a way younger audience it is alright but i dont recommend for any one else

THis was a good book, for people who like scary, or horror books. :) I liked it.