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    The Make-Believe Mystery
    The Make-Believe Mystery
    The Make-Believe Mystery
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    The Make-Believe Mystery

    By Carolyn Keene

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    It's hard to write a mystery story when the plot disappears!
    Nancy, Bess, George, and Phoebe Archer team up to write a mystery for a class project. Everyone else in the class is on teams too, and the best story will be printed in the school newspaper. First, snooty Brenda Carlton tells the girls they have no chance of winning -- then the notebook in which they wrote their mystery disappears!
    The girls had a neat idea for a ghost story, and now another team may have stolen it. Things get weird when they find notes written in drippy red writing -- with words that come straight from their story! Is the make-believe mystery coming true?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateSep 11, 2012
    ISBN9781442472037
    The Make-Believe Mystery
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    Carolyn Keene

    Carolyn Keene is the author of the ever-popular Nancy Drew books.

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      The Make-Believe Mystery - Carolyn Keene

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      Contents

      Chapter 1: The Contest

      Chapter 2: Top Secret!

      Chapter 3: Gone!

      Chapter 4: A Real Mystery

      Chapter 5: Copycats and Copyrats

      Chapter 6: Starting from Scratch

      Chapter 7: A Creepy Note

      Chapter 8: And the Winner Is…

      1

      The Contest

      Class, I have a special project for you," Mrs. Reynolds announced. She reached into her desk drawer and pulled out a brown paper bag.

      Eight-year-old Nancy Drew leaned toward Bess Marvin, who sat next to her. They were both third graders in Mrs. Reynolds’s class. Bess was one of Nancy’s best friends.

      I wonder what’s in the bag? Nancy whispered to Bess.

      It looks like a lunch bag, so maybe it’s food, Bess whispered back. She tossed her long blond hair over her shoulders and glanced at Mrs. Reynolds. Hmm. Or maybe not.

      Nancy leaned forward in her seat. Mrs. Reynolds was pulling folded-up pieces of paper out of the bag.

      These have your names on them, Mrs. Reynolds explained. She let the pieces of paper flutter through her fingers and back into the bag. For this project, we’re going to need seven teams. I’m going to pick seven names out of this bag. Those students will be the team captains. Each captain will choose three or four other people to be on his or her team.

      If I’m a team captain, I’m not going to choose any girls, Jason Hutchings called out. He turned to his friend Mike Minelli, and they gave each other high fives.

      That’s enough, Mrs. Reynolds said, frowning at the boys. Anyway, each team will write a short story—a mystery short story set here at Carl Sandburg Elementary School. A week from tomorrow, all the teams will read their stories out loud in class, and we’ll vote on the best one.

      A mystery short story! Nancy sat up in her seat. She loved mysteries. For one thing, she was the best detective at Carl Sandburg Elementary School. She had a special blue notebook that her father had given her. She wrote clues in it whenever she was working on a case.

      Still, writing a mystery short story would be different from solving a mystery, Nancy thought—a different kind of fun. She was excited about trying it.

      Across the room, George Fayne raised her hand. George was Bess’s cousin and Nancy’s other best friend. Mrs. Reynolds? Won’t it be kind of hard for all the team members to write together? George asked.

      You’ll take turns, Mrs. Reynolds explained with a smile. You can decide on a story idea as a team. Then each team member will write one part of the story. The first person will write the first part. The second person will write the second part, and so on.

      Cool, George said. Kind of like the baton relay. George, who was tall and had dark, curly hair, was really into sports.

      Mrs. Reynolds reached into the paper bag and picked out seven names for the team captains.

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