The Mandie Collection, Volume 5

The Mandie Collection #5

by Lois Gladys Leppard

Perfect for lifelong Mandie fans and readers just getting to know her, Volume Five of the Mandie Collection takes readers on one exciting ride after another. Everywhere Mandie goes, mystery and adventure find her. Mandie and the Fiery Rescue finds Mandie on a daring rescue in a burning building in Belfast, and in Mandie and the Invisible Troublemaker, Mandie is blamed for things that go wrong at the Misses Heathwood's School. Volume Five also includes Mandie and the Angel's Secret, Mandie and the Dangerous Imposters, and Mandie and Her Missing Kin.

Genres: Mystery, Historical Fiction, Christian, Childrens, Christian Fiction, Fiction

368 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2011

About the author

Lois Gladys Leppard was the author of the Mandie series of children's novels. Leppard wrote her first Mandie story when she was only eleven and a half years old, but did not become a professional author until she was an adult. Leppard has also worked as a professional singer, actress, and playwright. At one time, she and her two sisters, Sybil and Louise, formed a singing group called the Larke Sisters.
There are forty Mandie books in the main series, an eight-book junior series and several other titles. Leppard said that she could write a Mandie book in two weeks, barring any interruptions.
The eponymous heroine lives in North Carolina in the early 1900s, encountering adventure and solving mysteries with help from her friends, family, and pet cat, Snowball. These young reader novels are meant to teach morals as well as be fun and captivating stories to read. Leppard stated that her books contain "nothing occult or vulgar", and Mandie is depicted as a faithful Christian. The Mandie books often deal with issues of discrimination and prejudice relating to race (particularly with regard to the local Cherokee), class, and disability.
Lois Gladys Leppard based some of the incidents in her Mandie books on her mother's experiences growing up in North Carolina. The dedication in the first book is: "For My Mother, Bessie A. Wilson Leppard, and In Memory of Her Sister, Lillie Margaret Ann Wilson Frady, Orphans of North Carolina Who Outgrew the Sufferings of Childhood".

Reviews

[Taryn Spearey · Rating 3 out of 5]

The third story in this book doesn't have the ending.

[Glory · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mandie is a very lovable person, sometime she is too perfect and at other times she is too disobedient, all the Mandie books have a bit of romance in them, so for some little girls it might too much. But over all they are very educational and exiting books.