Carolyn Keene’s Treasure Trouble is a summer holiday mystery for 8 year olds about a pirate party, a missing chest of party favours and a lake monster nobody can quite pin down.<\/p>\n
It’s the first week of the summer holidays. George’s mum is catering a pirate party at Barnacle Beach, and she’s brought Nancy, Bess and George along to help. The party is for a pair of birthday twins, whose grandmother lives in a huge pink house with its own private beach.<\/p>\n
Strangely, none of the invited children are coming. Nobody will say why. So the girls become the guests, and the party is on.<\/p>\n
There’s a party pirate called Captain Corky, his son Casey and a parrot called Crackers who squawks “This party stinks!” (somebody has clearly been teaching him). There’s also Poppy, the twins’ little cousin, who’s cross about everything and covered in food stains.<\/p>\n
The girls hide a chest of eye patches, beads and toy telescopes under some bushes for a treasure hunt. When the twins finally get there, it’s gone.<\/p>\n
Poppy slipped away during the blindfold water balloon game. Casey was spotted dragging something the size of a cool box to his boat. And then there’s Lonny the Lake Lizard. According to the hotel owner, whatever Lonny wants, Lonny takes!<\/p>\n
Bess is convinced it’s Lonny. Nancy doesn’t believe in monsters, not even when people at the hotel start showing round blurry photos. Then one night a shape rises out of the lake under the full moon, and everyone on the beach goes wild.<\/p>\n
It’s a lovely holiday read. A giant pink raft shaped like a phone, a fun park, a joke shop full of rubber noses and a fairground ride where the cages flip upside down. Bess hates upside-down rides more than anything (George flips it anyway).<\/p>\n
Nancy also kicks herself for choosing the bushes as a hiding place, which is a nice touch. She’s not a perfect detective here, and she wants to put it right.<\/p>\n
If your reader likes a mystery with a monster in it that might or might not be real, this one’s very satisfying.<\/p>\n
For another trip to the seaside, try Cape Mermaid Mystery. It takes the girls to an old inn by the sea, where a ten-year-old girl with a video camera films absolutely everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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