Trixie Belden is the OG – she’s smart, overflowing with personality, and always poking her nose into trouble. When her older brothers go away to camp, Trixie is sure that she’s in for a long and dreary summer. But a new best friend and the mystery of a dying man’s fortune promise to perk things right up. Trixie Belden: The Secret of the Mansion is the first in the re-release of the series by Julie Campbell.

Unchanged since their first printing, this classic series is right on time for the younger fans of the cosy-crime wave. There’s something wholesome about Trixie – the sprawling farm where she lives, her unencumbered friendship with her two brothers, Brian and Mark, and the occasional intrusion from her overly curious younger brother, Bobby. But in addition to these nostalgic values, there’s a feistiness to Trixie that captured me as a young reader and I know will still capture young readers today. Trixie Belden is a troublesome tomboy with a huge heart, and these clever mysteries will have readers begging for more. For ages 8+.