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NANCY DREW AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MEAN GIRLS IN AN ERA OF QUEEN BEES AND WANNABES, NANCY PROVES THAT GIRLS DON'T HAVE TO BE MEAN TO BE POPULAR.

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050911
Author:Melanie Rehak

WHEN NANCY DREW stole on to the scene of the crime 75 years ago last April, complete with her shiny blue roadster and her finely tuned sense of good and evil, the teen detective was the very model of the independent-minded young lady on a mission. She was invented in the waning days of the Roaring Twenties by a children's book mogul named Edward Stratemeyer, also the father of the Hardy Boys and the Bobbsey Twins, who envisioned his creation (his final one, as it would turn out, since he died just a few weeks after the first Nancy Drew stories were published) as "an up-to-date American ...

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