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What an ending! I kept wondering why the kids were in a boat on the cover. Then, once they were in the boat, I practically held my breath for the rest of the book! #bobwhitebuddies

Trixie & the BobWhites are at it again when sheep thieves are targeting the Belden‘s Uncle Andrew‘s farm!

We get to see the gang investigate another high stakes mystery, meet some new kids, some development on young love, & a dramatic rescue! More importantly, we get to see Trixie fail in her investigations, & then pick herself back up, apologize for her assumptions, & try, try again. It‘s always great to see failure treated as natural.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

#Read2025 #JumpStart2025 #SeriesLove2025

Finished the other day for #BobWhiteBuddies this is Book 9 & a fun one with some serious danger for some of the group as they spend spring break (except poor Dan) in Iowa at the Belden‘s uncle‘s sheep ranch. Trixie is on the case of some missing sheep & making a few mistakes along the way. There‘s ice skating & rabbit chasing & new friends who show up in a later book. This is one of my favorites mainly ⬇️

I realized I hadn‘t posted my January TBR so here we go: lots of readalongs & challenges: #SundayBuddyRead #ChloeGongReadAlong #ChildrensClassicRead2025 #NancyDrewBR #BobWhiteBuddies #Naturalitsy #Pemberlittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow #ThematicCozies #FictionalTraveler #AuthorAMonth #AuldLangSpine #Roll100 #FoodAndLit #SeriesLove2025

It may not all happen & other holds might jump in but I‘ve finished 2 & have another 5 in process so we‘ll see.🤞🏼

2025 here we come!😬#BookSpinBingo #BingoBoard

#BookSpin This Machine Kills Secrets, #DoubleSpin NetGalley

#Roll100 Queen‘s Consort, This Machine Kills Secrets, Grace of Kings

#OokBOokClub Going Postal

#BobWhiteBuddies The Happy Valley Mystery

#BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad The Land of Oz

#QueerBC Last Night at the Telegraph Club (an #AuldLangSpine read!)

#ThematicCozies Karma‘s a Bitch

#LitsySciFiBookClub Redshirts

#AuldLangSpine Fresh Ink

Thank you @TheAromaofBooks for the lovely card and the amazing sticker! I can‘t wait to continue this adventure with all our #BobWhiteBuddies !

Cannot BELIEVE I am working on a reading journal for ***2025*** That's not a real date!!!! @PuddleJumper is responsible for most of my challenges this year, although @lauredhel is also doing some work 😂 This year: #ISpyBingo #100YearsofBooks (and finishing @Librarybelle 's #192025 ), #Pantone2025 #Roll100 #GottaCatchEmAll and #BookChain

Not pictured - #ReadtheUSA #WickedWords @AsYouWish #FourFoursin25 @lauredhel #FictionalTraveler @julieclair ⬇

I guess Trixie Belden is getting republished?!? I wonder if the books are getting updated like the Nancy Drew books were.

#BobWhiteBuddies #NetGalley #ARC

I really enjoyed November's Trixie mystery. I know I've said it before, but I love how Trixie isn't perfect. In this story, she's biased against Dan from the start just because of how he looks/what he wears, and that comes back to bite her. Were some things in this book a little too tidy/easy? Absolutely, but that's okay because it's fiction 😂

Did you all get to this one? Any thoughts?

One other thing, I wondered how crazy the mountain lion ⬇

I feel good about my November reading. I guess hiding after the election helped my numbers as I finished 20 books including my 3 November #Roll100 + 2 more from previous months. I also finished books for #SeasonalCozies #BobWhiteBuddies ChildrensClassicRead2024 #Naturalitsy #FoodAndLit & I finished my #OUABC 40 Book challenge, met my 150 book goal on Goodreads & I‘m 1 book away from my #BOTM challenge. Favorites were: We Solve Murders, Shark ⬇️