Nancy Drew 12: The Message in the Hollow Oak

by Carolyn Keene

Book Overview

A group of professional detectives challenge Nancy to tackle a mystery that they have failed to solve- find an invaluable message hidden by a missionary centuries ago in a hollow oak tree in Illinois. While searching the woods for the ancient tree, Nancy and her friends live with a group of young archaeologists who are excavating prehistoric Indian burial mounds on a nearby farm. A shadowy enemy stalks Nancy and harasses everyone at the dig. The young...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0448095122
• ISBN13: 9780448095127
• Release Date: October 1935
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Advertised as 1935 edition, was 1972 edition

Advertised as the first edition 1935. The original photo for the book was one of the older editions with the blue cover rather than the 1972 reprint. I only bought this because I believed I was getting a 1935 edition.

A great mystry book.

A great kids mstry book. I loved it. Thanks Dave-Fisherman.-N.Y.

nancy drew

I ordered it with the intention of walking down the path of childhood long since forgotten. I am as enthralled with the book now as I was thirty years ago. It is inspiring and just deliteful. Nancy Drew has endured the test of time and come out still the best at what she does.

Excellent

All the Nancy Drew books are excellent - perfect to develop a 8 or 9 year olds love for reading. The stories are all so interesting. We cherish our mother daughter routine of reading these books together every night. Also the characters are wholesome. There is a line drawn between good and evil. Some of the more contemporary books like Junie B. Jones have main characters that I would never want my daughter to emulate with bad attitudes, etc. Nancy Drew is not afraid of ANYTHING or ANYONE and is always finding adventure while solving mysteries.

One of the best books in this series.

The Message in the Hollow Oke is among my favorites in the Nancy Drew series. It is full of excitiment and adventure.You should deffently read it.

Mysteries, Mysteries, Mysteries!

Nancy Drew in The Message in the Hollow Oak is very interesting and was fun to read about. I thought it was very interesting to see in her point of view on how to solve her mysteries. She has a very creative mind. I thought that Nancy was interesting because she always knows what to do when everyone else is stuck. She tends to always find a way to solve her mystery and help other people that are also part of it. Nancy and her friends may at some times get in a little mischief, but always, no matter how bad the situation, find different ways to get out of it. It also occurs to me that in this book, they never have gotten in any illegal problems, but had to phone the police a couple of times to keep Nancy safe. One thing that I also like is that she thinks of things that I would have never thought of before and it helps me just in case I might need something to solve, but not as intense. The Message in the Hollow Oak is a great book for young and older readers. They're not scary, and not too boring. it's just the right thing. It was a great book to me and will be to you if you read it.

A really good read

This book is about Nancy going to Illinois and trying to solve the mystery of Pere Francois and his treasure. She stays at a dig site with Ned's cousin Julie Ann and is terrorized by a man with many identities named Kit Kadle. He will stop at nothing to find the message Pere Francois left and ultimately find the treasure. Will Nancy find it....... READ THE BOOK!