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Janie's Private Eyes (Stanley Family #4)
The Stanley family is back!
One by one dogs are disappearing from thirteen-year-old David Stanley's neighborhood. Who could be taking people's pets? David's eight-year old sister Janie has just founded the J.V. Stanley detective agency and she's determined to find out. It looks like a case of dognapping, and neighbors are accusing her friends the Trans, a Vietnamese family...more
One by one dogs are disappearing from thirteen-year-old David Stanley's neighborhood. Who could be taking people's pets? David's eight-year old sister Janie has just founded the J.V. Stanley detective agency and she's determined to find out. It looks like a case of dognapping, and neighbors are accusing her friends the Trans, a Vietnamese family...more
Paperback, 220 pages
Published
January 1st 2001
by Yearling
(first published 1989)
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8 year old genius Janie Stanley fancies herself a detective. When dogs in town start turning up missing, and her new Vietnamese friends are blamed, Janie ropes David, Amanda, David's friend Pete and the twins into investigating. Despite the eventual dog-nappers being pretty easily telegraphed right from the beginning, it is still entertaining to read about the Stanley kids capers. I just realized that the three sequels to The Headless Cupid are not nearly as supernatural as it was, but even thou...more
I really liked this book. It had a fun story with some nice plot twists, but the greater focus seemed to be on the characters. As 13-year-old David tries to solve the mystery of the missing dogs, he finds a way to combine it with his school project, killing two birds with one stone. Well, except there's another monkey wrench in his plans: his 8-year-old sister Janie, who thinks she can solve the mystery herself.
Make no mistake about it: while this is David's story, and told from his perspective,...more
Make no mistake about it: while this is David's story, and told from his perspective,...more
I continue to like this against my better judgement. The weaknesses of the previous sequels to The Headless Cupid are still present.
First of all David is still the narrator despite his being unimaginative and stodgy, as well as not being involved in pivotal scenes, merely comments afterwards on what Janie and Co. got up to. His humor too seems to have developed into something dangerously close to the Mr. Derp schtick practiced by the protagonist of Fool's Gold.
Snyder still doesn't know what to...more
First of all David is still the narrator despite his being unimaginative and stodgy, as well as not being involved in pivotal scenes, merely comments afterwards on what Janie and Co. got up to. His humor too seems to have developed into something dangerously close to the Mr. Derp schtick practiced by the protagonist of Fool's Gold.
Snyder still doesn't know what to...more
Apr 24, 2008
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Not as good as the others in this series, But it focused on my favorite character Janie.
Another one of that mystery series I'm not crazy about.
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The recipient of three Newbery Honor Book awards for "The Egypt Game", "The Headless Cupid" and "The Witches of Worm", Zilpha Keatley Snyder has been writing books for children since 1964 when her first book, "A Season of Ponies", was published. Since that time she has completed 43 books, mostly for children aged 9 to 13, but also including two books for young adults, four picture books for younge...more
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