On Saturday I reread two Trixie's, one by Julie Campbell and the other by Kathryn Kenny. First off, I went online and found out about the authors. Julie Campbell was a real author who wrote the first 6 Trixies. She died in 1999. After the first 6, she didn't want to write them anymore, so then Random House, who published the books, employed in-house writers under the pseudonym "Kathryn Kenny" to write the other titles, which explains how uneven some of them are.
"The Gatehouse Mystery" is #3, and it's another one of my favorites. Trixie and Honey explore an abandoned gatehouse on the Wheeler's property and find a diamond. Trixie's older brothers, Mart and Brian, come back from their jobs at summer camp, and the five teens start the Bob-Whites of the Glen club, so this one is sort of like the first real book where everything gets started. The first two books sort of set up future events.
"The Sasquatch Mystery" (and I've forgotten which number it is, 17, maybe) is not very good, honestly. I just pulled one off the shelf that I hadn't read so many times I knew it by heart. This one finds Trixie and the gang camping in Idaho with her cousins, when they run into the mysterious creature known as Bigfoot, or Sasquatch. Was it real, or was it some guy in a fur suit trying to scare off campers to hunt for gold? The ending suggests both.
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