Shelf Life

May 18th, 2006
In the novel Nancy Drew: The E-Mail Mystery by Carolyn Keene Nancy is a young girl who has been waiting for summer vacation anxiously and now that it has come she will not waste another day. Nancy is finally ready to enjoy herself. Nancy feels good that it is already summer and wakes up to the sun shining upon her face. Her blue eyes reflect in the sun and her skin glows along with her reddish hair. Nancy just loves summer, it makes her happy. As soon as she is awake she jumps out of bed and puts on her gym shorts and her favorite blue T-shirt. Now she can wear her shorts and not hesitate to take them off for school. Nancy decides that she is going to go running that special morning, but as she is getting out of the house the phone rings and she doesn’t hesitate to answer it. Her dad just walked out of the house to go to his law office so he cannot answer his client on the other end of the line. Impatiently the client hangs-up and Nancy is left confused. Will her summer turn into winter? Will her smile turn into a frown? Nancy is left with a big mystery to solve as her summer has just began.

By Evelyn Hernandez