Nancy Drew: The Baby-Sitter Burglaries

Keene, C. (1996). The Baby-Sitter Burglaries. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Publishers.

Plot: Nancy Drew is on to a new mystery. There have been a string of burglaries in River Heights and each one is connected to a girl named Juanita Puentes, who has baby-sat for each family. What is more serious is that Juanita's boyfriend used to work for an alarm company, the same one used for each home burglarized. Nancy knows Juanita is innocent, so she is going solve this mystery and clear her name.

Genre: Mystery

Suggested reading level: Grades 4-6

Subjects/themes: Mystery, sleuthing, friendship, magic, burglary, theft.

Other Nancy Drew Books by Carolyn Keene:

• The Vanishing Veil
• The Nutcracker Ballet Mystery
• The Wedding Day Mystery
• Mystery on Maui
• The Ghost of the Lantern Lady
• The Mistletoe Mystery

Annotation: Nancy Drew is onto a new mystery! Can she find out who has been burglarizing the people of River Heights before the police arrest her friend Juanita Puentes because she is connected to all the families? Read the book and find out!