Thursday, 23 February 2012

Trixie Belden

 Trixie Belden is my favourite character in the Trixie Belden series. She is a Thirteen-year-old girl who is described as being short with a sturdy build, she has short sandy,blond ringlets and round blue eyes. She has a tendency to jump to conclusions, but her hunches often prove to be correct.One of Trixie's chores is to look after six-year-old Bobby, She loves her little brother, but she often loses patience with the mischievous child. Trixie has an amazing instinct for people and can accurately judge them before she gets to know them.Her best friend is Honey Wheeler. She and Honey plan to one day open their own business The Belden-Wheeler Detective Agency. 
 My review
So far I have really enjoyed reading the Trixie Belden books. The Author writes in a way that makes it feel like it is really happening and has you sitting on the edge of your seat.These books are suitable for ages 11/12+ because they could be a little bit confusing for younger kids.Even though these books are quite old they are my favourite series so....
I rate them 10 out of 10!!!.

These books are quite hard to find because they aren't published much any more. There are 39 books in the series. Here are some tips to where you may be able to find them.
  1. Look in op shops around your town or area,You should go to op shops every week or two and search around in the book section. You might be able to ask the shop to notify you if any of the books you wanted came in(not sure).
  2. You could also go to garage sales, markets, car boot markets etc. All of the options listed would  probable sell the books for a reasonable price and be on most weekends of the year(depending where you live).
  3. If you are to busy to look around op shops regularly you can go on to eBay and search Trixie Belden books and there should be a wide variety of the books to choose from, but the only disadvantage of doing that is that they are more expensive than op shops.They will range from prices of about $5-$15 possibly more or less than that price because you have to include postage + the Price so I am estimating that it would cost at least $10 altogether, if not even more But....You can buy them in sets which is usually cheaper but sometimes they sell for really high prices!
  4. Some Library's may still have the Trixie Belden books but most won't. It depends on whether your library still keeps old books.But if they do you could borrow them if you are a library member or they may even have them for sale.
I hope you will be able to find these AWESOME books and enjoy reading them as much as I have
Thanks again, Courtney
cya soon

 Ps.Make sure you don't pinch my Trixie Belden books from the op shops!!ha ha

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

#2 Trixie Belden and the Red Trailer Mystery

Author:Julie Campbell 
Pages:
Genre:Mystery,General
Age: 12+
The second book in this series begins in the town of Sleepyside, Trixie Belden and Honey Wheeler are on an urgent mission to find Jim Frayne, a great friend that they met in the last book, Jim left to find a boy’s camp where he could work at, but Jim didn’t know that he was actually the heir to a half a million dollar fortune. So Trixie, Honey and Miss Trask (Honey's governess) went off in the Silver Swan to find Jim Frayne to tell him the news and hopefully get him to stay and live in Sleepyside. Along the mission they become wound up in the lives of a strange family who were travelling in a red trailer. Strangely enough they seem to see this red trailer a countless amount of times. When their daughter runs away and Trixie and Honey discover that the red trailer, along with many others, has been reported stolen, the two girls become determined to find Jim and solve this tricky red trailer mystery.
My review 
I Rate this book 10 out of 10!!!
Julie Campbell established a brilliant series, she had an amazing way of writing mystery books! Unfortunatly she had only wrote the first 6 books in the Trixie Belden series before Kathryn kenny took over and wrote 33 more books for the series. 
Trixie Belden and the red trailer mystery is a SPECTATULAR book and deserves to be applauded. 

Take pleasure in reading these GREAT GREAT books, because there is only 39 of them!! Even though that is a lot of books I wish there were more!!
Thanks again, 
Courtney

Saturday, 18 February 2012

#1 Trixie Belden and the secret of the mansion

Author: Julie Campbell
Pages:
Genre:Mystery, general, adventure
 My review
I Rate this Book 10 Out of 10!!The first book in the trixie belden series was awesome!!
Trixie is a great well loved character and in the secret of the mansion you start to learn about the different characters ways and start loving them.
My Blurb
When Honey a 13 year old girl moves next door to the beldens house, Trixie is egar to meet her but when she finds our she is a 'sissy' she isn't so sure. Unexpectedly their neighbour Mr.Frayne goes to the hospital so...Trixie and Honey go over to his mansion to check that everything is locked and secure (and to look around!!Trixe has always wanted to explore their property!). But when the girls find a boy their around their age asleep in the mansion they freak out, Startled by the creaking of a floorboard the boy(Jim)wakes up. At first Jim picks up his gun and talks to them gruffly but after awhile he realises that he can trust the girls and becomes great friends with them.After the unfortunant death of Mr.Frayne, Trixie and Honey find out that Jim is heir to the Mansion as Mr. Frayne was his Uncle. The girls tell Jim about the fortune rumoured to be hidden somewhere in the mansion and they decide to try and help Jim find the treasure before Jim's evil Step-Dad finds him.
Will they be able to find the treasure in time??

These books may be hard to find because they aren't published much any more. There are actually 39 books in the series. Here are some tips to where you may be able to find them.
  1. Look in op shops around your town or area,You should go to op shops every week or two and search around in the book section to find the Trixie Belden books. I think you could ask the shop to notify you if any of the books you wanted came in.
  2. You could also go to garage sales, markets, car boot markets etc. All of the options listed would  probable sell the books for a reasonable price and be on most weekends of the year.
  3. If you are too busy to look around op shops regularly you can go on to eBay and search Trixie Belden books and there should be a wide variety of the books to choose from, but the only disadvantage of doing that is that they are allot more expensive than op shops.They will range from prices of about $5-$15 possibly more or less than that price because you have to include postage + Price so I am estimating that it would cost at least $10 altogether, if not even more.
  4. Some Library's may still have the Trixie Belden books but most won't. It depends on whether your library still keeps old books.But if they do you could borrow them if you are a library member or they may even have them for sale.
I hope you will be able to find them and will enjoy reading them as much as I have
Thanks again, Courtney
cya soon

 Ps.Make sure you don't pinch my Trixie Belden books from the op shops!!!!lol