The Secret of the Mansion
by:
Julie Campbell (author)
Mary Stevens (illustrator)
Michael Koelsch (illustrator)
Trixie’s summer is going to be sooo boring with her two older brothers away at camp. But then a millionaire’s daughter moves into the next-door mansion, an old miser hides a fortune in his decrepit house, and a runaway kid starts hiding out in Sleepyside!
Trixie’s summer is going to be sooo boring with her two older brothers away at camp. But then a millionaire’s daughter moves into the next-door mansion, an old miser hides a fortune in his decrepit house, and a runaway kid starts hiding out in Sleepyside!
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375824128 (037582412X)
ASIN: 037582412X
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Teen,
Classics,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller
Series: Trixie Belden 7 (#1)
The first Trixie Belden book. This book is wild. Within about 200 pgs, we have concussion, multiple snake bits, people falling off of horses, fires, broken ankles, and lost treasure. It was something to marvel at, if not exactly admire.
I know many wonderful people who love, love, love Trixie. My earliest memories of this series center around a supermarket in Coldwater Michigan which sold cheap Whitman hardcovers for 69 cents. Every so often, if I'd completely run out of REAL books (which is to say, books about HORSES), my mom woul...