About this title: Originally published from 1948 to 1986, this mystery series starring teenager Trixie Belden is back. In this first installment, Trixie and her best friend, Honey Wheeler, notice something peculiar at the old Frayne mansion and discover a boy sleeping in the abandoned house.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375824128ISBN:037582412X
Description: Stevens, Mary, and Koelsch, Michael. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations. Trixie Belden (Hardcover), 1. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375824128ISBN:037582412X
Description: Stevens, Mary, and Koelsch, Michael. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations. Trixie Belden (Hardcover), 1. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375824128ISBN:037582412X
Description: Stevens, Mary, and Koelsch, Michael. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations. Trixie Belden (Hardcover), 1. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780375824128ISBN:037582412X
Description: Fair. Dust Cover Missing. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780375824128ISBN:037582412X
Description: Good. Dust Cover Missing. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375824128ISBN:037582412X
Description: Stevens, Mary, and Koelsch, Michael. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations. Trixie Belden (Hardcover), 1. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2003-06-24
ISBN-13:9780375824128ISBN:037582412X
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375824128ISBN:037582412X
Description: Stevens, Mary, and Koelsch, Michael. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations. Trixie Belden (Hardcover), 1. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375824128ISBN:037582412X
Description: Stevens, Mary, and Koelsch, Michael. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations. Trixie Belden (Hardcover), 1. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
"I liked the first few Nancy Drew books but then they began to bore me, same story of solving the mystery and how the girls looked pretty, blah blah blah. So I really like this series because it's actually a continuous story. It's followed like as though it could actually be someone's life and not just some mystery series."
"As a kid I LOVED this series and would have rated every book as 5 stars. But as an adult, I had to demote it to 3.5 stars. I'd still give it to kids to read nowadays, but some of the language is a bit old-fashioned. My biggest issue is the characters' dialogue...often stilted and awkward. I was really wondering if 13 year olds in 1948 spoke that way. I'm thinking they didn't, but who knows. It definitely impacted my enjoyment of the story though I tried to ignore it with the other outdated ideas. Otherwise, the characters are good, and the story is fairly good. I still highly recommend it.
If you liked Nancy Drew, odds are high you would enjoy this series too. Trixie is a bit more relatable, younger, and lives in the country."
"This series was my absolute, absolute kid-mystery favorite when I was a child. Orders of magnitude more entertaining to me than Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys, but in the same vein. Used to stay up late at night to finish these, but my parents hardly ever came in to turn the light off. Still think about these mysteries every summer, and glad to see they are still in print for my nieces to read soon!"
"I don't know if I can stress how much I enjoyed this series, and others like it as a child. I grew up reading the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, the Bobbsey Twins, Trixie Belden, Cherry Ames, and Tom Swift. Most of these early editions were my mothers', some inherited from her father, saved and put away for her own children, just as I have saved them and put them away for my own. I loved the comraderie and inherent but not overwhelming morality of each story. Most of the bad guys were truly bad, and the ones who were only ambiguously evil were usually saved by their own redeeming qualities in the end. Later in my life as a young adult, and now as an adult, my recollections of these poor battered, (but well loved) books inspired me to collect and try to restore many of these early editions, begun by my mother for me before I was old enough to understand the fragile nature of the cheap paper and cardboard bindings.
I am now the proud owner of the ENTIRE Hardy Boys collection, (at least numbers 1-30, published in the 1930's,) and as competely restored as my time and finances can make them. I also own numbers 1-20 of the 1960's edition of the Trixie Belden series, and even more editions of all of the other series, of indeterminate vintage.
I travel to Lake Placid, in Upstate NY several times a year. On Main street, on the side of the lake is a three story shop called With Pipe and Book. It's as though the smells and sounds of masterpiece theater had a lakeside view. I could probably descibe how many hours I've spent there with my boyfriend, reading and breathing in the smell of pipe smoke, but I'd sound like a nut. On one of my trips, I picked up a very well loved copy of Grimm's fairy tales, with a flyleaf dating its publication to the late 1800's. In perfect copperplate script, a grandmother dedicated the book to her grandson for Christmas, with the hope that he might follow in the footsteps of his grandmother, and ensure that all of her books were enjoyed by his children, and their children's children. I loved the little book, and I'm sure my children will too."
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