6/12/2023 0 Comments The quest of the missing map![]() ![]() ![]() Chatham and her young daughter Trixie living on an estate not far away. The search for the lost brother leads Nancy to a widow, Mrs. Smith but the twins had lost track of each other over time. That half had been in possession of the twin brother of Mr. Now, needing money, the Smiths would like to find the other half of the map. ![]() Smith by his father, a sea captain indicating a small uncharted island in the Atlantic where he had buried a treasure. They are in possession of half of a map given to Mr. The quest begins when Hannah Gruen, the Drew housekeeper, asks Nancy to help the Smiths, a family that she used to work for. The Quest of the Missing Map was published in 1942, shortly after the US entered WWII. And, now that American Girl is going to retire Molly and her friend Emily Bennett, an evacuee from the London Blitz, I thought I would have a look at the Nancy Drew book that sat on Molly's night stand all these years. None other than Nancy Drew, the teenage girl detective who wore frocks and drove a roadster. Mauskopf, American Girl Molly McIntire and I read, and maybe you did, too. What did girls read during WWII when they wanted to get away from the war? Well, one of the things they liked to read were the same books that Laura Bush, Hilary Rodham Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gayle King, Diane Sawyer, Nancy Pelosi, as well as Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, filmmaker Pamela Beere Briggs, SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White, and Federal Judge Roslynn R. ![]()
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