The Nancy Drew Notebooks series was written for young detective readers ages 5-8. Nancy and her friends Bess and George are 8 years old and in the third grade. While the series ended at #69, a new series began called “Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew” which was also written for young readers and fans of the Nancy Drew Notebooks. This series was published by Pocket Books and Aladdin Books for Minstrel Books.
Complete List
- The Slumber Party Secret
- The Lost Locket
- The Secret Santa
- Bad Day for Ballet
- The Soccer Shoe Clue
- The Ice Cream Scoop
- Trouble at Camp Treehouse
- The Best Detective
- The Thanksgiving Surprise
- Not on Ice
- The Pen Pal Puzzle
- The Puppy Problem
- The Wedding Gift Goof
- The Funny Face Fight
- The Crazy Key Clue
- The Ski Slope Mystery
- Whose Pet is Best?
- The Stolen Unicorn
- The Lemonade Raid
- Hannah’s Secret
- Princess on Parade
- The Clue in the Glue
- Alien in the Classroom
- The Hidden Treasures
- Dare at the Fair
- The Lucky Horseshoes
- Trouble Takes the Cake
- Thrill on the Hill
- Lights! Camera! Clues!
- It’s No Joke!
- The Fine-Feathered Mystery
- The Black Velvet Mystery
- The Gumdrop Ghost
- Trash or Treasure?
- Third-Grade Reporter
- The Make-Believe Mystery
- Dude Ranch Detective
- Candy is Dandy
- The Chinese New Year Mystery
- Dinosaur Alert!
- Flower Power
- Circus Act
- The Walkie-talkie Mystery
- The Purple Fingerprint
- The Dashing Dog Mystery
- The Snow Queen’s Surprise
- The Crook Who Took the Book
- The Crazy Carnival Case
- The Sand Castle Mystery
- The Scarytales Sleepover
- The Old-Fashioned Mystery
- Big Worry in Wonderland
- Recipe for Trouble
- The Stinky Cheese Surprise
- The Day Camp Disaster
- Turkey Trouble
- The Carousel Mystery
- The Dollhouse Mystery
- The Bike Race Mystery
- The Lighthouse Mystery
- Space Case
- The Secret in the Spooky Woods
- The Snowman Surprise
- The Bunny-Hop Hoax
- Strike-Out Scare
- Zoo Clue
- The Singing Suspects
- The Apple Bandit
- The Kitten Caper
Extra Notes
While many of the Nancy Drew Notebooks published by Minstrel Books are mostly white covered, the ones published by Aladdin have an additional red banner that reads at the top of the front cover: “Ready for chapters.”
In this series, Nancy, Bess, and George attend third-grade at Carl Sandberg Elementary School in River Heights. Their teacher is Mrs. Reynolds. Here are the classmates (list is still a work-in-progress): Brenda Carlton, Mari Chen, Orson Wong, Alison Wegman, Jason Hutchings, Amara Shane, Molly Angelo, Mike Minelli, David Berger, Kyle Leddington, Julia Santos, Phoebe Archer, Jenny March, Andrew Leoni, Stevie Sikes.
In many of the Nancy Drew Notebooks, there are ads for the Nancy Drew PC/Mac games by HeR Interactive. In book 59, the ad was printed directly in the inside back cover, featuring Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake. Interestingly, the game art shown is the non-final version:
In books 44 and 45, there is an ad for Message in a Haunted Mansion:
