A Race Against Time
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Authors: Carolyn Keene
Tags: #Juvenile Fiction, #Mysteries & Detective Stories, #General, #Girls & Women, #Action & Adventure
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A Race
Against
Time
If I’m in the game, I play to win. So as captain of my team in the River Heights Biking for Bucks charity road race, my goals are to bring my team over the finish line first—and to catch a thief along the way!
See, all of the money we raised before the race has been stolen—and I know I can find it. With two days, practically no clues, and a bike race to win, I’ve got my work cut out for me. But with Bess, George, and Ned on my team, what could stand between us and the gold?
Catch my next case:
False Notes
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Knocked off course
“This is big, Nancy, really big. The guy that told me is in the know and everything.”
I wanted to reach down into his throat with both hands and pull the words out. But I forced myself to stay calm. Sometimes getting Charlie to tell me something is like trying to get a cat out from under the bed for a trip to the vet.
“It’s okay,” I said in a low voice. “What happened?”
I held my breath so long waiting for Charlie’s answer, I could feel a warm flush in my cheeks.
“It’s the money,” Charlie finally said. “The Biking for Bucks pledges.” He shook his head, and his eyes widened into almost perfect circles.
“What about the money?” I prompted, although I had a feeling that I knew what he was going to say.
“It’s gone,” he said. “It’s all gone.”
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ISBN-13: 978-0-689-86567-1
ISBN-10: 0-689-86567-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-442-45943-4 (eBook)
ContentsDitched in the Creek
My name is Nancy
Drew, and I’ve always had this rule: If you’re in the game, you play to win.
That doesn’t mean I’m cutthroat competitive. But it
does
mean that if I make a commitment, I’ll see it through to the end.
Unfortunately it’s not always easy. I’ve discovered that sometimes one rule is canceled out by another. And that’s exactly what happened last weekend during the River Heights Biking for Bucks charity road race.
I’m an amateur detective, so another one of my rules is: Solve the crime. And even though I was the sprinter of my cycling team, and it was my job to bring us over the finish line in first place—