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Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew #26
Camp Creepy
In Camp Creepy, the girls take a school trip to Taos, New Mexico! A classmate's uncle has opened a new camp and the kids of River Heights Elementary are invited to come test it out. But when a series of mysterious incidents ruin Nancy's art project, Nancy thinks something eerie is at work. Could she have upset the Taos Indian spirits?
96 pages, Paperback
First published April 21, 2010
About the author
Carolyn Keene
1,077 books3,954 followersCarolyn Keene is a writer pen name that was used by many different people- both men and women- over the years. The company that was the creator of the Nancy Drew series, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, hired a variety of writers. For Nancy Drew, the writers used the pseudonym Carolyn Keene to assure anonymity of the creator.
Edna and Harriet Stratemeyer inherited the company from their father Edward Stratemeyer. Edna contributed 10 plot outlines before passing the reins to her sister Harriet. It was Mildred Benson (aka: Mildred A. Wirt), who breathed such a feisty spirit into Nancy's character. Mildred wrote 23 of the original 30 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories®, including the first three. It was her characterization that helped make Nancy an instant hit. The Stratemeyer Syndicate's devotion to the series over the years under the reins of Harriet Stratemeyer Adams helped to keep the series alive and on store shelves for each succeeding generation of girls and boys. In 1959, Harriet, along with several writers, began a 25-year project to revise the earlier Carolyn Keene novels. The Nancy Drew books were condensed, racial stereotypes were removed, and the language was updated. In a few cases, outdated plots were completely rewritten.
Other writers of Nancy Drew volumes include Harriet herself, she wrote most of the series after Mildred quit writing for the Syndicate and in 1959 began a revision of the first 34 texts. The role of the writer of "Carolyn Keene" passed temporarily to Walter Karig who wrote three novels during the Great Depression. Also contributing to Nancy Drew's prolific existence were Leslie McFarlane, James Duncan Lawrence, Nancy Axelrod, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., and Margaret Scherf.
Edna and Harriet Stratemeyer inherited the company from their father Edward Stratemeyer. Edna contributed 10 plot outlines before passing the reins to her sister Harriet. It was Mildred Benson (aka: Mildred A. Wirt), who breathed such a feisty spirit into Nancy's character. Mildred wrote 23 of the original 30 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories®, including the first three. It was her characterization that helped make Nancy an instant hit. The Stratemeyer Syndicate's devotion to the series over the years under the reins of Harriet Stratemeyer Adams helped to keep the series alive and on store shelves for each succeeding generation of girls and boys. In 1959, Harriet, along with several writers, began a 25-year project to revise the earlier Carolyn Keene novels. The Nancy Drew books were condensed, racial stereotypes were removed, and the language was updated. In a few cases, outdated plots were completely rewritten.
Other writers of Nancy Drew volumes include Harriet herself, she wrote most of the series after Mildred quit writing for the Syndicate and in 1959 began a revision of the first 34 texts. The role of the writer of "Carolyn Keene" passed temporarily to Walter Karig who wrote three novels during the Great Depression. Also contributing to Nancy Drew's prolific existence were Leslie McFarlane, James Duncan Lawrence, Nancy Axelrod, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., and Margaret Scherf.
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October 6, 2016
I am so sad, I just didn't enjoy this book that much, I was just rolling my eyes all the time.
Our detective, Nancy Drew, falling for something like a curse? Something magical? It just felt weird, I know she is 8 years old, but it just felt odd that she would be so spooked over something that probably wasn't real. Something that someone just read somewhere. Why would ghosts haunt your freaking project? It is not like you build it as an insult. So yeah, the whole book was about OHhhhhhhh the magical curse..... which turned out to be something totally different (as I already had suspected and expected). Duh, if Nancy had just thought for herself a bit she might have figured it out already, but did she? No.
She let herself be swayed by her friends and people around her. Which is just a shame, normally Nancy is stronger than this and will not fall for tricks like this.
I am not saying that curses aren't real, or ghosts can't be angered, but considering how Nancy normally is (in almost all series) it just seemed hilarious that she was so afraid and so believing in this curse.
I also wish that Hannah had been a bit more honest about things, if she just had told Nancy, I am sure Nancy could keep it a secret, or even help out. But no. And that is also different from the usual. Hannah is normally like a mom to Nancy, always there helping her, always there caring for her.
Also after reading the book, I see so much wrong with the cover, I wish the cover illustrator had done the same job of reading this book. As what is on the cover never happens. Yes, the houses that Nancy makes get destroyed, but that happens inside, during the day.
I did like the camp parts, and I wish I could also go to such a camp. Swimming, crafts, campfires, sports, and more. It sounds like a delight, and I wouldn't mind spending some weeks there.
But all in all, this was a big disappointment. :(
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com
Our detective, Nancy Drew, falling for something like a curse? Something magical? It just felt weird, I know she is 8 years old, but it just felt odd that she would be so spooked over something that probably wasn't real. Something that someone just read somewhere. Why would ghosts haunt your freaking project? It is not like you build it as an insult. So yeah, the whole book was about OHhhhhhhh the magical curse..... which turned out to be something totally different (as I already had suspected and expected). Duh, if Nancy had just thought for herself a bit she might have figured it out already, but did she? No.
She let herself be swayed by her friends and people around her. Which is just a shame, normally Nancy is stronger than this and will not fall for tricks like this.
I am not saying that curses aren't real, or ghosts can't be angered, but considering how Nancy normally is (in almost all series) it just seemed hilarious that she was so afraid and so believing in this curse.
I also wish that Hannah had been a bit more honest about things, if she just had told Nancy, I am sure Nancy could keep it a secret, or even help out. But no. And that is also different from the usual. Hannah is normally like a mom to Nancy, always there helping her, always there caring for her.
Also after reading the book, I see so much wrong with the cover, I wish the cover illustrator had done the same job of reading this book. As what is on the cover never happens. Yes, the houses that Nancy makes get destroyed, but that happens inside, during the day.
I did like the camp parts, and I wish I could also go to such a camp. Swimming, crafts, campfires, sports, and more. It sounds like a delight, and I wouldn't mind spending some weeks there.
But all in all, this was a big disappointment. :(
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com
September 12, 2017
Not very clever. Didn't like it as much as the others.
March 8, 2025
3.5 stars. I liked this book better than I have liked the others lately! In this one, the girls have to research an Indian tribe and create a replica of their dwellings. The winner gets a one week trip to a new summer camp near a reservation. The whole class wins, but the girls are suspicious that the Tao Indians don't like them investigating their culture because their replicas continue to get destroyed. This had a really fun vibe and was a little different than the rest, even if the premise requires a huge suspension of disbelief.
June 11, 2024
Even for juvenile fiction, this one was pretty lame. Unlike the Nancy Drew mysteries I read as a child, this one takes place when she’s only nine years old, and in third grade. Trying to win a contest, she makes a model of a Pueblo adobe house, but it’s mysteriously destroyed more than once. Nancy solves the mystery, of course, and all ends happily.
December 20, 2020
This one was really, really weird. Definitely my least favorite one out of the series so far.
January 16, 2022
Ending was sort of obvious
March 4, 2025
Really good 👍
January 16, 2024
This book is about Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew making a project. They make it several times but every time it gets damaged and broken.
September 2, 2013
This is another fun mystery in the Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew series. We've been slowly working our way through the series and we like the characters.
The mysteries are not scary and they aren't too difficult to solve; they often have a twist or two in the plot to keep us guessing, so I am actually somewhat impressed with the writing (especially for a short chapter book for young readers.) The illustrations are entertaining and complement the story nicely.
This story features an exciting trip to a camp in Taos, New Mexico for Nancy and her classmates. The mystery itself is a bit silly, but entertaining nonetheless. The story introduces a bit of culture and religion for the Pueblo Indians, although the information isn't very detailed. We enjoyed reading this story together.
The mysteries are not scary and they aren't too difficult to solve; they often have a twist or two in the plot to keep us guessing, so I am actually somewhat impressed with the writing (especially for a short chapter book for young readers.) The illustrations are entertaining and complement the story nicely.
This story features an exciting trip to a camp in Taos, New Mexico for Nancy and her classmates. The mystery itself is a bit silly, but entertaining nonetheless. The story introduces a bit of culture and religion for the Pueblo Indians, although the information isn't very detailed. We enjoyed reading this story together.
July 7, 2014
Nancy and her friends made a castle to bring to school. In the night something took it apart.
They had a big mystery to solve.
They saw a girl eating a piece of the castle, but the girl cried" I didn't know it was your castle!"
When the girl had stopped eating the bars from the castle, in the night something else wrecked it.
In the morning they saw Buttens, Nancy's dog eating it up.
That was the mystery.
I love this book, but it is not the best book ever.
They had a big mystery to solve.
They saw a girl eating a piece of the castle, but the girl cried" I didn't know it was your castle!"
When the girl had stopped eating the bars from the castle, in the night something else wrecked it.
In the morning they saw Buttens, Nancy's dog eating it up.
That was the mystery.
I love this book, but it is not the best book ever.
June 30, 2011
Not the best in the series, but my grade-schoolers enoyed it as a read-aloud. Unlike some of the other Clue Crew titles we've read, they were able to solve the mystery in the first couple of chapters.
August 31, 2011
It wasn't the best, But i enjoyed it!
January 13, 2016
I learned to not always be too suspicious of people that have nothing to do with the thing your trying to figure out
Auryn 12 years old, 2016
Auryn 12 years old, 2016
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