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Nancy Drew 45: The Spider Sapphire Mystery
Nancy Drew 45: The Spider Sapphire Mystery | Carolyn Keene
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Thrilling, dangerous adventures confront Nancy Drew while on a safari in East Africa with a group of American college students. Excitement runs high as the teen-age detective delves into the theft of a fabulous sapphire formed by nature millions of years ago. The mystery starts in Nancys home town. Her lawyer fathers client, Floyd Ramsay, who fashions beautiful and unusual synthetic gems, is accused of stealing the magnificent spider sapphire and exhibiting it as his own creation. Mr. Ramsays enemies blackmail him and by their vicious acts try to deter Nancy from going on the safari. Readers will join Nancy as she uncovers a nefarious scheme and solves the strange disappearance of an injured jungle guide.
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Thanks for the tags, @SaturnDoo and @runswithscissors007 !

1. My Libra element is air, but the quiz says Water. 😁
2. I‘ve said this before, but Tamora Pierce‘s Circle of Magic quartet literally saved my life when I was in middle school.
3. Hoping to read the tagged for another #ReadYourSign book this week!

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Eggs Lovely 😊 Thanks for joining in 👏🏻📚👍🏼 4y
runswithscissors007 Ah yes middle school......books in general saved me in middle school. All the books.😬🤓 4y
Branwen Tamora Pierce is such a treasure! 💕📚 4y
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Well, Nancy‘s the first book of the year! Unfortunately this is so massively racist I had trouble reading it to the kiddo - I had to keep editing what I was reading aloud. Nancy gets involved in a mystery that takes her to Nairobi and Mombasa. We‘ve got “the Indian said” for the natives of India living in Mombasa and “the black said” for some of the native Africans, plus so much more. Also just a ridiculous plot. No thanks.

Tamra 🙄 When I think back to my childhood books now I cringe not so much for overt racism, but the covert in the complete & utter lack of representation. Sometimes I don‘t finish adult period novels for the same reasons you cite. It‘s difficult to gloss over. (edited) 4y
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