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Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Kids' Club Eligible. NOOK Book. Home 1 Kids' Books 2. Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Overview Nancy goes to Excello Flying School in the Midwest to take lessons, while her friends Bess and George perfect their horseback riding. But soon the young sleuth is confronted with the mystery of a hijacked plane and a missing pilot. Nancy becomes a detective in a plane and on horseback to track down the elusive sky phantom and the horse thief. A lucky find — a medal with a message to be deciphered on it — furnishes a worthwhile clue. Romance is added to mystery when Bess becomes interested in a handsome cowboy. Readers will spur Nancy on as she investigates a strange magnetic cloud, hunts for the horse thief, and finally arrives at a surprising solution. Product Details About the Author. Age Range: 8 - 12 Years. The first author to use the pseudonym was Mildred Wirt Benson, who wrote 23 of the original 30 books. Related Searches. While driving a motorboat around the Twin Lakes, Nancy and her friend Helen get caught While driving a motorboat around the Twin Lakes, Nancy and her friend Helen get caught in a dangerous storm. Please enter your name, your email and your question regarding the product in the fields below, and we'll answer you in the next hours. You can unsubscribe at any time. Enter email address. Welcome to Christianbook. Sign in or create an account. Search by title, catalog stock , author, isbn, etc. Bible Sale of the Season. By: Carolyn Keene. Wishlist Wishlist. More in Nancy Drew Series. Write a Review. Advanced Search Links. Product Close-up This product is not available for expedited shipping. Add To Cart. Crayola, Twistables Colored Pencils, 30 Pieces. Nancy goes to the Excello Flying School in the Midwest to take lessons, while her friends Bess and George perfect their horseback riding. At once the young sleuth is confronted with the mystery of a hyjacked plane and a missing pilot. The Sky Phantom (Nancy Drew Series #53) by Carolyn Keene, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble®

And to her credit, Bess's cousin George actually refrains from teasing Bess about being fat while she's in the middle of her emotional crisis. But both Nancy and George display an out of sight, out of mind attitude towards Bess's very serious emotional situation. In contrast, in other novels, Nancy often considers the plight of elderly women, young children and young mothers that she has resolved to help, even when she is not in their presence. She often goes and gets groceries, helps cook meals, and does other things to assist these people, even while she is also actively trying to solve the mystery and find a longer term solution to their problems. The pervading attitude is more like, "Oh dear, Roger has disappeared and no one has heard from him for weeks. He is such a nice young man, I hope nothing bad has happened to him. I think we should make a search for him, because we're all somewhat curious as to why he might have disappeared. It's a mystery! Because of the lack of any sort of useful clues to support most of Nancy's hunches, the jumbled and overflowing plot that tries to cram in details about both the horse ranch and the flying school, and the lack of any realistic sense of compassion or pressing anxiety for the kidnapping victim in the story, I just don't feel that The Sky Phantom matches up to mist of the rest of the yellow spine Nancy Drew novels. But hey, I learned a little bit more about flying an airplane, and now I can say that I have reread all 56 volumes of the original series as an adult. Jul 31, John Yelverton rated it it was amazing. Great Nancy Drew story as she hunts down hijackers Sep 10, Danny Reid rated it liked it. Love a book that has a dozen red herrings and the villain turns out to be It's some random dude. Hi, random dude, thanks for popping up in literally the last chapter, if it weren't for you, something interesting may have happened. Jul 13, Sarah rated it it was ok. So like, this book was pretty much nonsense. I read it aloud to my daughter and she enjoyed it well enough, though she also enjoyed laughing at some of the more I loved Nancy Drew as a kid, and I'd like to revisit some others, because I suspect this one is just kind of wacky. But it's pretty much not really a mystery in any traditional sense, just a sort of flailing about while decoding secret messages and musing calmly as to where the kid So like, this book was pretty much nonsense. But it's pretty much not really a mystery in any traditional sense, just a sort of flailing about while decoding secret messages and musing calmly as to where the kidnapping victim could be and then oh hey suddenly it's over! I appreciated the degree to which Nancy is just automatically the best at everything - no really, I know that's silly but for the target demo I think it's fine. It's not every day that we meet a series willing to assume the female protagonist is just super ultra capable and great at whatever she sets out to do. In this one, she is an excellent pilot and an experienced horseback rider, because of course she is. She's also super chill about all her near-death experiences and pretty much relaxed about her friend's relationship crisis. I don't know, I have feelings. I don't regret reading this, it was just so super weird. View 1 comment. Jan 21, Whitney rated it it was ok Shelves: nancy-drew. A lot goes on in this s Nancy book. She is taking flying lessons. Also, she and her friends are living nearby at a horse ranch. Well, unfortunately, not everyone defies death. The ranchers need to put a wounded horse named Speed Boy out of his misery, because an enemy shoots him in the leg. Nancy and her friends Bess and George attempt to catch the culprits, when Bess isn't busy screaming. But since it happens in the ni A lot goes on in this s Nancy book. But since it happens in the night, the villain escapes, and the set of two young men ranchers have the job of saying bye to Speed Boy, and then burying him. How they manage to create a hole in rocky soil, big enough for a full-sized horse, in the middle of the night, is not disclosed in the plot. Bess has a big personal problem. She has a "cowboy friend" named Chuck, who asks her to marry him. She bursts into tears on multiple occasions, because she does not want her "favorite date," named Dave, to discover her mixed feelings. George, Bess's cousin, and by the way, George is a GIRL, which is clearly stated in each and every novel, is predictably heartless about Bess's upset. But hey, on the bright side of Bess's day, at least George is criticizing Bess for her indecision about men, rather than her usual criticism of the things that Bess is eating. What a way to be, George! Lighthearted moments in the plot include a funny video of Nancy driving a plane in reverse on the runway, and also a costume party at the ranch. The MYSTERY is a large cloud that is in the sky every single day, and also the cloud can change shape, to appear like animals in threatening stances. Nancy flies her plane through the cloud and almost crashes. A weird perhaps drug-inspired moment, endured by whatever person was working on the story, occurs when Nancy explores a cave, gets trampled by mice, and then she gets soaked in crude oil and barely slides her way out of the cave alive! It's just a random part of the plot. And for some reason, when Nancy gets the idea to check out the acreage of ground beneath the cloud, she is the first person to do this. I don't think anyone actually finds out what's in the box. I'm not joking. Mar 02, Secundra rated it it was ok. Nancy is taking flying lessons while Bess and George are vacationing at a dude ranch. During a flying lesson Bess and George point to Nancy and her instructor to a plane with a missing pilot. Also at the same time a palomino horse was missing. I was immediately hooked! Then the plot changes to a sub story on a rancher at the dude ranch named Chuck Chase. Bess begins to fall in love with him. Bess is having a wonderful time until George goes on a read I loved the initial start of the book. Bess is having a wonderful time until George goes on a verbal assault, reminding her that she has a boyfriend Dave back at River Heights. George hits her with zingers such as "you don't believe that silly dream you had about the boys? Bess bawls over this comment and being torn between two lovers. But I digresses Great mystery. I appreciate the author penning under Carolyn Keene giving Bess a major roll in the book. Instead this book could serve as a teaching manual on verbal abuse. Team Bess forever Aug 10, Darinda rated it really liked it Shelves: middle-grade. Another fun Nancy Drew mystery. This time Nancy is taking flying lessons when she discovers something wonky is going on. Nancy and friends solve another mystery, but this one isn't as good as many of the others. Mar 10, Clare rated it did not like it Shelves: mystery. Man, I loved Nancy Drew books when I was younger, but this was not one I read back then, so I didn't even have nostalgia to really help me through it. I bought this one from a used book store a while back, unable to resist the call of the yellow cover. But this book was extremely jumbled and disorganized. The only fun part was reading out particularly stilted bits of dialogue to Micah. Jun 06, Melanie rated it liked it Shelves: childrens , fiction , read-as- ebook , mysteries , nancy-drew-marathon. Ranchers though not as sexy as in book five and piloting Nancy is a skilled pilot, of course. A Bermuda Triangle cloud seeded with experimental magnetic dust by some bad guys. The mystery is all but non-existent. Some guy goes missing, and Nancy finds a trinket with a coded message on it that hints of a coming revolution. Aviation hijinks ensue turns out Ned is as skilled a pilot as Nancy. The ending is really abrupt. Almost all the action of the whole story happens in the last chapter. I Ranchers though not as sexy as in book five and piloting Nancy is a skilled pilot, of course. It's as if the ghostwriter drug out the story until she realized "oh crap, it's chapter 20, gotta end this thing! The first instance I've never seen where the author refers to an earlier book's events. She mentions how Nancy is wary at masquerades because she got kidnapped at an earlier one in reference to The Clue of the Velvet Mask. Except I think it's incorrect, and it was actually George who got kidnapped while pretending to be Nancy, but who remembers pesky details, like whether Ned is selling insurance or working at a summer camp or at Emerson? A death! Someone shoots a horse and wounds it so the rancher has to put it down. Surprising it's taken fifty-three books to get to our first murder. A love triangle! Bess, Dave, and a hot new cowboy beau who proposes to her. Bess stays with Dave, of course. Nobody loses consciousness, but Nancy and Ned have to gnaw their way out of burlap sacks. Mar 19, Tabi34 rated it liked it. Nancy almost showed some human compassion instead of focusing solely on solving the mystery. For a while I thought we might lose Bess to a cowboy. Bess is probably the most mature of the girls. She is thinking about getting married, but this time it wasn't to Dave, but a cowboy she meets. Dave hasn't asked her to marry him yet; The mystery is pretty weak. And of course Ned and the fellows have to make an appearance and ruin the girls' fun. George is als Ok George is also seeing a cowboy. They show up at the end so they can protect the girls and help solve the mystery. I find their appearance inconsequential except to tell girls of the day that they need a man to finish anything. I do like reading these to see if I can figure out if it's a different writer and so I can watch the characters develop. Ned and Nancy seem to be a bit closer in this book and they actually kiss. Ned is a bit concerned about Dave possibly getting hurt if Bess dumps him. Ah the blissful youth of the early 60s. Mar 03, Olivia rated it liked it. This book was good. The flying aspect was fun and it was funny to have Bess get a little crazy when it came to boys, more so than usual. The only reason I gave it only 3 stars is because a horse gets hurt and has to be put down. I felt that that part could have been left out. If I had read this as a child it greatly would have upset me. Apr 13, Shawnee rated it really liked it. Nancy could have used a bit of tact when talking about the dead pony I actually liked this book - it was different from the others. Maybe because it never took place in River Heights and her family was never involved. Dec 29, Suziey rated it liked it. Nancy, Bess and George are vacationing on a ranch in the midwest. While Bess and George aim to improve their horseback riding, Nancy is attending a nearby flight school. During one of her lessons, she and her instructor encounter a mysterious plane. When they investigate, they discover the plane belongs to a pilot that has been missing for some time. Of course, Nancy quickly begins to hunt for clues. This was a strange one. It was oddly political. In the sense that revolutionaries are planning so Nancy, Bess and George are vacationing on a ranch in the midwest. In the sense that revolutionaries are planning some kind of attack. What kind of revolutionaries? I have absolutely zero clue. All I know, Nancy and Ned uncovered a cache of bombs and guns. Anyway, there were two moments that made my jaw drop to the floor. The first being super depressing. One of the criminals shoots a pony in the leg. The ranch manager gives a eulogy for the pony, before putting it out of its misery. Bess was too overcome and walked away mid-eulogy. But Nancy and George, with tears streaming down their faces, watched the horse die. One of the most depressing things to happen in a Nancy Drew story. The second moment was much more drama-filled. Bess became close to Chuck, one of the ranchers. When George teases her, Bess inadvertently tells her and Nancy that Chuck has proposed to her! Well, color me shocked! But Bess manages to get her feelings sorted out and hooray for Dave. The poor sap will never know how Bess did him dirty. So… this book. I have no idea who the guy was. He really only popped up for 2 seconds. Dude who are you?? Jul 12, Erika rated it it was amazing Shelves: nancy-drew , books-i-ve-reviewed. That's all I have to say. Children's literature portal Novels portal. Hidden categories: All stub articles. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. Juvenile literature. The Secret of the Forgotten City. The Strange Message in the Parchment. This article about a children's novel of the s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. The Sky Phantom - Wikipedia She often goes and gets groceries, helps cook meals, and does other things to assist these people, even while she is also actively trying to solve the mystery and find a longer term solution to their problems. The pervading attitude is more like, "Oh dear, Roger has disappeared and no one has heard from him for weeks. He is such a nice young man, I hope nothing bad has happened to him. I think we should make a search for him, because we're all somewhat curious as to why he might have disappeared. It's a mystery! Because of the lack of any sort of useful clues to support most of Nancy's hunches, the jumbled and overflowing plot that tries to cram in details about both the horse ranch and the flying school, and the lack of any realistic sense of compassion or pressing anxiety for the kidnapping victim in the story, I just don't feel that The Sky Phantom matches up to mist of the rest of the yellow spine Nancy Drew novels. But hey, I learned a little bit more about flying an airplane, and now I can say that I have reread all 56 volumes of the original series as an adult. Jul 31, John Yelverton rated it it was amazing. Great Nancy Drew story as she hunts down hijackers Sep 10, Danny Reid rated it liked it. Love a book that has a dozen red herrings and the villain turns out to be It's some random dude. Hi, random dude, thanks for popping up in literally the last chapter, if it weren't for you, something interesting may have happened. Jul 13, Sarah rated it it was ok. So like, this book was pretty much nonsense. I read it aloud to my daughter and she enjoyed it well enough, though she also enjoyed laughing at some of the more I loved Nancy Drew as a kid, and I'd like to revisit some others, because I suspect this one is just kind of wacky. But it's pretty much not really a mystery in any traditional sense, just a sort of flailing about while decoding secret messages and musing calmly as to where the kid So like, this book was pretty much nonsense. But it's pretty much not really a mystery in any traditional sense, just a sort of flailing about while decoding secret messages and musing calmly as to where the kidnapping victim could be and then oh hey suddenly it's over! I appreciated the degree to which Nancy is just automatically the best at everything - no really, I know that's silly but for the target demo I think it's fine. It's not every day that we meet a series willing to assume the female protagonist is just super ultra capable and great at whatever she sets out to do. In this one, she is an excellent pilot and an experienced horseback rider, because of course she is. She's also super chill about all her near-death experiences and pretty much relaxed about her friend's relationship crisis. I don't know, I have feelings. I don't regret reading this, it was just so super weird. View 1 comment. Jan 21, Whitney rated it it was ok Shelves: nancy-drew. A lot goes on in this s Nancy book. She is taking flying lessons. Also, she and her friends are living nearby at a horse ranch. Well, unfortunately, not everyone defies death. The ranchers need to put a wounded horse named Speed Boy out of his misery, because an enemy shoots him in the leg. Nancy and her friends Bess and George attempt to catch the culprits, when Bess isn't busy screaming. But since it happens in the ni A lot goes on in this s Nancy book. But since it happens in the night, the villain escapes, and the set of two young men ranchers have the job of saying bye to Speed Boy, and then burying him. How they manage to create a hole in rocky soil, big enough for a full-sized horse, in the middle of the night, is not disclosed in the plot. Bess has a big personal problem. She has a "cowboy friend" named Chuck, who asks her to marry him. She bursts into tears on multiple occasions, because she does not want her "favorite date," named Dave, to discover her mixed feelings. George, Bess's cousin, and by the way, George is a GIRL, which is clearly stated in each and every novel, is predictably heartless about Bess's upset. But hey, on the bright side of Bess's day, at least George is criticizing Bess for her indecision about men, rather than her usual criticism of the things that Bess is eating. What a way to be, George! Lighthearted moments in the plot include a funny video of Nancy driving a plane in reverse on the runway, and also a costume party at the ranch. The MYSTERY is a large cloud that is in the sky every single day, and also the cloud can change shape, to appear like animals in threatening stances. Nancy flies her plane through the cloud and almost crashes. A weird perhaps drug-inspired moment, endured by whatever person was working on the story, occurs when Nancy explores a cave, gets trampled by mice, and then she gets soaked in crude oil and barely slides her way out of the cave alive! It's just a random part of the plot. And for some reason, when Nancy gets the idea to check out the acreage of ground beneath the cloud, she is the first person to do this. I don't think anyone actually finds out what's in the box. I'm not joking. Mar 02, Secundra rated it it was ok. Nancy is taking flying lessons while Bess and George are vacationing at a dude ranch. During a flying lesson Bess and George point to Nancy and her instructor to a plane with a missing pilot. Also at the same time a palomino horse was missing. I was immediately hooked! Then the plot changes to a sub story on a rancher at the dude ranch named Chuck Chase. Bess begins to fall in love with him. Bess is having a wonderful time until George goes on a read I loved the initial start of the book. Bess is having a wonderful time until George goes on a verbal assault, reminding her that she has a boyfriend Dave back at River Heights. George hits her with zingers such as "you don't believe that silly dream you had about the boys? Bess bawls over this comment and being torn between two lovers. But I digresses Great mystery. I appreciate the author penning under Carolyn Keene giving Bess a major roll in the book. Instead this book could serve as a teaching manual on verbal abuse. Team Bess forever Aug 10, Darinda rated it really liked it Shelves: middle-grade. Another fun Nancy Drew mystery. This time Nancy is taking flying lessons when she discovers something wonky is going on. Nancy and friends solve another mystery, but this one isn't as good as many of the others. Mar 10, Clare rated it did not like it Shelves: mystery. Man, I loved Nancy Drew books when I was younger, but this was not one I read back then, so I didn't even have nostalgia to really help me through it. I bought this one from a used book store a while back, unable to resist the call of the yellow cover. But this book was extremely jumbled and disorganized. The only fun part was reading out particularly stilted bits of dialogue to Micah. Jun 06, Melanie rated it liked it Shelves: childrens , fiction , read-as-ebook , mysteries , nancy-drew-marathon. Ranchers though not as sexy as in book five and piloting Nancy is a skilled pilot, of course. A Bermuda Triangle cloud seeded with experimental magnetic dust by some bad guys. The mystery is all but non-existent. Some guy goes missing, and Nancy finds a trinket with a coded message on it that hints of a coming revolution. Aviation hijinks ensue turns out Ned is as skilled a pilot as Nancy. The ending is really abrupt. Almost all the action of the whole story happens in the last chapter. I Ranchers though not as sexy as in book five and piloting Nancy is a skilled pilot, of course. It's as if the ghostwriter drug out the story until she realized "oh crap, it's chapter 20, gotta end this thing! The first instance I've never seen where the author refers to an earlier book's events. She mentions how Nancy is wary at masquerades because she got kidnapped at an earlier one in reference to The Clue of the Velvet Mask. Except I think it's incorrect, and it was actually George who got kidnapped while pretending to be Nancy, but who remembers pesky details, like whether Ned is selling insurance or working at a summer camp or at Emerson? A death! Someone shoots a horse and wounds it so the rancher has to put it down. Surprising it's taken fifty-three books to get to our first murder. A love triangle! Bess, Dave, and a hot new cowboy beau who proposes to her. Bess stays with Dave, of course. Nobody loses consciousness, but Nancy and Ned have to gnaw their way out of burlap sacks. Mar 19, Tabi34 rated it liked it. Nancy almost showed some human compassion instead of focusing solely on solving the mystery. For a while I thought we might lose Bess to a cowboy. Bess is probably the most mature of the girls. She is thinking about getting married, but this time it wasn't to Dave, but a cowboy she meets. Dave hasn't asked her to marry him yet; The mystery is pretty weak. And of course Ned and the fellows have to make an appearance and ruin the girls' fun. George is als Ok George is also seeing a cowboy. They show up at the end so they can protect the girls and help solve the mystery. I find their appearance inconsequential except to tell girls of the day that they need a man to finish anything. I do like reading these to see if I can figure out if it's a different writer and so I can watch the characters develop. Ned and Nancy seem to be a bit closer in this book and they actually kiss. Ned is a bit concerned about Dave possibly getting hurt if Bess dumps him. Ah the blissful youth of the early 60s. Mar 03, Olivia rated it liked it. This book was good. The flying aspect was fun and it was funny to have Bess get a little crazy when it came to boys, more so than usual. The only reason I gave it only 3 stars is because a horse gets hurt and has to be put down. I felt that that part could have been left out. If I had read this as a child it greatly would have upset me. Apr 13, Shawnee rated it really liked it. Nancy could have used a bit of tact when talking about the dead pony I actually liked this book - it was different from the others. Maybe because it never took place in River Heights and her family was never involved. Dec 29, Suziey rated it liked it. Nancy, Bess and George are vacationing on a ranch in the midwest. While Bess and George aim to improve their horseback riding, Nancy is attending a nearby flight school. During one of her lessons, she and her instructor encounter a mysterious plane. When they investigate, they discover the plane belongs to a pilot that has been missing for some time. Of course, Nancy quickly begins to hunt for clues. This was a strange one. It was oddly political. In the sense that revolutionaries are planning so Nancy, Bess and George are vacationing on a ranch in the midwest. In the sense that revolutionaries are planning some kind of attack. What kind of revolutionaries? I have absolutely zero clue. All I know, Nancy and Ned uncovered a cache of bombs and guns. Anyway, there were two moments that made my jaw drop to the floor. The first being super depressing. One of the criminals shoots a pony in the leg. The ranch manager gives a eulogy for the pony, before putting it out of its misery. Bess was too overcome and walked away mid-eulogy. But Nancy and George, with tears streaming down their faces, watched the horse die. One of the most depressing things to happen in a Nancy Drew story. The second moment was much more drama-filled. Bess became close to Chuck, one of the ranchers. When George teases her, Bess inadvertently tells her and Nancy that Chuck has proposed to her! Well, color me shocked! But Bess manages to get her feelings sorted out and hooray for Dave. The poor sap will never know how Bess did him dirty. So… this book. I have no idea who the guy was. He really only popped up for 2 seconds. Dude who are you?? Jul 12, Erika rated it it was amazing Shelves: nancy-drew , books-i-ve-reviewed. That's all I have to say. This book has been staring at me on my shelf for a while, and I decided it's time to marathon some Nancy Drew books. This however is one of the more violent and tragic books from the series, as a horse is shot in the leg and dies, and Nancy is shot at while out riding! Nancy Drew is taking airplane flying lessons from Excello t Classic. A lucky find — a medal with a message to be deciphered on it — furnishes a worthwhile clue. Romance is added when Bess becomes interested in a handsome cowboy. Readers will spur Nancy on as she investigates a strange magnetic cloud, hunts for the horse thief, and finally arrives at a surprising solution. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nancy Drew. Children's literature portal Novels portal. Hidden categories: All stub articles. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Nancy Drew Mystery Stories.

The Sky Phantom by Carolyn Keene

Please enter your name, your email and your question regarding the product in the fields below, and we'll answer you in the next hours. You can unsubscribe at any time. Enter email address. Welcome to Christianbook. Sign in or create an account. Search by title, catalog stock , author, isbn, etc. Bible Sale of the Season. By: Carolyn Keene. Wishlist Wishlist. More in Nancy Drew Series. Write a Review. Advanced Search Links. Product Close-up This product is not available for expedited shipping. Add To Cart. Crayola, Twistables Colored Pencils, 30 Pieces. Nancy goes to the Excello Flying School in the Midwest to take lessons, while her friends Bess and George perfect their horseback riding. At once the young sleuth is confronted with the mystery of a hyjacked plane and a missing pilot. Original Title. Nancy Drew Mystery Stories Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Sky Phantom , please sign up. I am going to have to take an a. I haven't read the first part of it in a while. Do you think I will do good? See 1 question about The Sky Phantom…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jun 06, Lauren Schultz rated it did not like it Shelves: childrens-mystery , series-novels , wrote-a-review. I seem to be the only reader on Goodreads who thinks that this is a one-star read, but I really feel that The Sky Phantom is quite possibly the worst of the Nancy Drew yellow spine the original series novels. Usually the story centers around one premise - Nancy and her friends visiting a horse ranch, or Nancy taking flying lessons, for example. Instead, The Sky Phantom has Nancy taking flying lessons at the same time that she and her friends are vacationing at a horse ranch, and the attempt to I seem to be the only reader on Goodreads who thinks that this is a one-star read, but I really feel that The Sky Phantom is quite possibly the worst of the Nancy Drew yellow spine the original series novels. Instead, The Sky Phantom has Nancy taking flying lessons at the same time that she and her friends are vacationing at a horse ranch, and the attempt to include events at both the ranch and the flying school, not to mention details about oil prospecting, made everything feel rushed and jumbled. Characters popped in and out of the story even more quickly than usual, so their actions sometimes didn't make a whole lot of sense. Most of the time, Nancy's hunches had absolutely no basis in external clues whatsoever - usually she will have some cursory reason for her hunches. Yet her hunches always turned out to be correct. It seemed like the story itself was willed into being whatever Nancy wanted it to be. And no one seems overly concerned for the safety of the kidnapping victim, just mildly concerned that something is amiss. Not that I expect my Nancy Drew novels to be overly realistic or well written, but usually the plot and the characters make more sense then they do in The Sky Phantom. Another Goodreads reviewer pointed out that in The Sky Phantom, Bess shows more maturity than the other girls, as she is confronted with a marriage proposal and forced to make a choice between her "friend" Dave whom she regularly dates and the young cowboy who asks for her hand. The same Goodreads reviewer also points out that this situation leads Nancy to show more empathy toward her friend than normal. But I disagree with the reviewer's overall assessment of this situation, which I think actually just adds even more noise to the already overflowing novel, as opposed to depth. Said reviewer feels that "Nancy almost shows some compassion for once. In fact, while her actions in The Sky Phantom are often empathetic toward Bess while her friend is sitting in front of her weeping, Nancy doesn't give a single thought to Bess's emotional well being when she is off doing other things. I can say that Nancy gives some decent advice to Bess, showing a bit more insight into serious relationships than she does in other novels. And to her credit, Bess's cousin George actually refrains from teasing Bess about being fat while she's in the middle of her emotional crisis. But both Nancy and George display an out of sight, out of mind attitude towards Bess's very serious emotional situation. In contrast, in other novels, Nancy often considers the plight of elderly women, young children and young mothers that she has resolved to help, even when she is not in their presence. She often goes and gets groceries, helps cook meals, and does other things to assist these people, even while she is also actively trying to solve the mystery and find a longer term solution to their problems. The pervading attitude is more like, "Oh dear, Roger has disappeared and no one has heard from him for weeks. He is such a nice young man, I hope nothing bad has happened to him. I think we should make a search for him, because we're all somewhat curious as to why he might have disappeared. It's a mystery! Because of the lack of any sort of useful clues to support most of Nancy's hunches, the jumbled and overflowing plot that tries to cram in details about both the horse ranch and the flying school, and the lack of any realistic sense of compassion or pressing anxiety for the kidnapping victim in the story, I just don't feel that The Sky Phantom matches up to mist of the rest of the yellow spine Nancy Drew novels. But hey, I learned a little bit more about flying an airplane, and now I can say that I have reread all 56 volumes of the original series as an adult. Jul 31, John Yelverton rated it it was amazing. Great Nancy Drew story as she hunts down hijackers Sep 10, Danny Reid rated it liked it. Love a book that has a dozen red herrings and the villain turns out to be It's some random dude. Hi, random dude, thanks for popping up in literally the last chapter, if it weren't for you, something interesting may have happened. Jul 13, Sarah rated it it was ok. So like, this book was pretty much nonsense. I read it aloud to my daughter and she enjoyed it well enough, though she also enjoyed laughing at some of the more I loved Nancy Drew as a kid, and I'd like to revisit some others, because I suspect this one is just kind of wacky. But it's pretty much not really a mystery in any traditional sense, just a sort of flailing about while decoding secret messages and musing calmly as to where the kid So like, this book was pretty much nonsense. But it's pretty much not really a mystery in any traditional sense, just a sort of flailing about while decoding secret messages and musing calmly as to where the kidnapping victim could be and then oh hey suddenly it's over! I appreciated the degree to which Nancy is just automatically the best at everything - no really, I know that's silly but for the target demo I think it's fine. It's not every day that we meet a series willing to assume the female protagonist is just super ultra capable and great at whatever she sets out to do. In this one, she is an excellent pilot and an experienced horseback rider, because of course she is. She's also super chill about all her near-death experiences and pretty much relaxed about her friend's relationship crisis. I don't know, I have feelings. I don't regret reading this, it was just so super weird. View 1 comment. Jan 21, Whitney rated it it was ok Shelves: nancy-drew. A lot goes on in this s Nancy book. She is taking flying lessons. Also, she and her friends are living nearby at a horse ranch. Well, unfortunately, not everyone defies death. The ranchers need to put a wounded horse named Speed Boy out of his misery, because an enemy shoots him in the leg. Nancy and her friends Bess and George attempt to catch the culprits, when Bess isn't busy screaming. But since it happens in the ni A lot goes on in this s Nancy book. But since it happens in the night, the villain escapes, and the set of two young men ranchers have the job of saying bye to Speed Boy, and then burying him. How they manage to create a hole in rocky soil, big enough for a full-sized horse, in the middle of the night, is not disclosed in the plot. Bess has a big personal problem. She has a "cowboy friend" named Chuck, who asks her to marry him. She bursts into tears on multiple occasions, because she does not want her "favorite date," named Dave, to discover her mixed feelings. George, Bess's cousin, and by the way, George is a GIRL, which is clearly stated in each and every novel, is predictably heartless about Bess's upset. But hey, on the bright side of Bess's day, at least George is criticizing Bess for her indecision about men, rather than her usual criticism of the things that Bess is eating. What a way to be, George! Lighthearted moments in the plot include a funny video of Nancy driving a plane in reverse on the runway, and also a costume party at the ranch. The MYSTERY is a large cloud that is in the sky every single day, and also the cloud can change shape, to appear like animals in threatening stances. Nancy flies her plane through the cloud and almost crashes. A weird perhaps drug-inspired moment, endured by whatever person was working on the story, occurs when Nancy explores a cave, gets trampled by mice, and then she gets soaked in crude oil and barely slides her way out of the cave alive! It's just a random part of the plot. And for some reason, when Nancy gets the idea to check out the acreage of ground beneath the cloud, she is the first person to do this. I don't think anyone actually finds out what's in the box. I'm not joking. Mar 02, Secundra rated it it was ok. Nancy is taking flying lessons while Bess and George are vacationing at a dude ranch. During a flying lesson Bess and George point to Nancy and her instructor to a plane with a missing pilot. Also at the same time a palomino horse was missing. I was immediately hooked! Then the plot changes to a sub story on a rancher at the dude ranch named Chuck Chase. Bess begins to fall in love with him. Bess is having a wonderful time until George goes on a read I loved the initial start of the book. Bess is having a wonderful time until George goes on a verbal assault, reminding her that she has a boyfriend Dave back at River Heights. George hits her with zingers such as "you don't believe that silly dream you had about the boys? Bess bawls over this comment and being torn between two lovers. But I digresses Great mystery. I appreciate the author penning under Carolyn Keene giving Bess a major roll in the book. Instead this book could serve as a teaching manual on verbal abuse. Team Bess forever Aug 10, Darinda rated it really liked it Shelves: middle-grade. Another fun Nancy Drew mystery. This time Nancy is taking flying lessons when she discovers something wonky is going on. Nancy and friends solve another mystery, but this one isn't as good as many of the others. Mar 10, Clare rated it did not like it Shelves: mystery. Man, I loved Nancy Drew books when I was younger, but this was not one I read back then, so I didn't even have nostalgia to really help me through it. I bought this one from a used book store a while back, unable to resist the call of the yellow cover. But this book was extremely jumbled and disorganized. The only fun part was reading out particularly stilted bits of dialogue to Micah. Jun 06, Melanie rated it liked it Shelves: childrens , fiction , read-as-ebook , mysteries , nancy-drew-marathon. Ranchers though not as sexy as in book five and piloting Nancy is a skilled pilot, of course. A Bermuda Triangle cloud seeded with experimental magnetic dust by some bad guys. The mystery is all but non-existent. Some guy goes missing, and Nancy finds a trinket with a coded message on it that hints of a coming revolution. Aviation hijinks ensue turns out Ned is as skilled a pilot as Nancy. The ending is really abrupt. Almost all the action of the whole story happens in the last chapter. I Ranchers though not as sexy as in book five and piloting Nancy is a skilled pilot, of course. It's as if the ghostwriter drug out the story until she realized "oh crap, it's chapter 20, gotta end this thing! The first instance I've never seen where the author refers to an earlier book's events. She mentions how Nancy is wary at masquerades because she got kidnapped at an earlier one in reference to The Clue of the Velvet Mask. Except I think it's incorrect, and it was actually George who got kidnapped while pretending to be Nancy, but who remembers pesky details, like whether Ned is selling insurance or working at a summer camp or at Emerson? A death! Someone shoots a horse and wounds it so the rancher has to put it down. Surprising it's taken fifty-three books to get to our first murder. A love triangle! Bess, Dave, and a hot new cowboy beau who proposes to her. Bess stays with Dave, of course. Nobody loses consciousness, but Nancy and Ned have to gnaw their way out of burlap sacks. Mar 19, Tabi34 rated it liked it. Nancy almost showed some human compassion instead of focusing solely on solving the mystery. For a while I thought we might lose Bess to a cowboy. Bess is probably the most mature of the girls. She is thinking about getting married, but this time it wasn't to Dave, but a cowboy she meets. Dave hasn't asked her to marry him yet; The mystery is pretty weak. And of course Ned and the fellows have to make an appearance and ruin the girls' fun. George is als Ok George is also seeing a cowboy. They show up at the end so they can protect the girls and help solve the mystery. I find their appearance inconsequential except to tell girls of the day that they need a man to finish anything. I do like reading these to see if I can figure out if it's a different writer and so I can watch the characters develop. Ned and Nancy seem to be a bit closer in this book and they actually kiss. Ned is a bit concerned about Dave possibly getting hurt if Bess dumps him. Ah the blissful youth of the early 60s. Mar 03, Olivia rated it liked it. This book was good. The flying aspect was fun and it was funny to have Bess get a little crazy when it came to boys, more so than usual. The only reason I gave it only 3 stars is because a horse gets hurt and has to be put down. I felt that that part could have been left out. If I had read this as a child it greatly would have upset me. Apr 13, Shawnee rated it really liked it. 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