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Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth (Nancy Clancy, 1) Paperback – Illustrated, April 23, 2013

by Jane O'Connor (Author), Robin Preiss Glasser (Illustrator)

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For young readers who grew up with the bestselling Fancy Nancy picture books, Nancy Clancy is now starring in her own chapter books!

In this first in a series of delightful chapter books, Fancy Nancy takes on the role of detective. When one of Nancy's classmate's most treasured possessions disappear from school, it's up to detective Nancy to solve the mystery and save the day.

With the help of her friend Bree, she follows the clues to an unexpected source. Fans of Nancy Drew's Clue Crew will be among the readers happy to see a new Nancy join the ranks of super sleuths!

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Nancy Clancy is on the case!

Nancy Clancy has everything she needs to be a super sleuth (that's a fancy word for detective): She has a glamorous magnifying glass complete with rhinestones, a totally professional pink trench coat, and a sleuthing partner with awesome code-breaking skills—her best friend, Bree. But when crime strikes right in the middle of her classroom, will Nancy have what it takes to crack the case?

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Jane O’Connor was born and raised in the fabulous metropolis of New York City. That’s where she still lives with her husband, Jim, although both their grown sons did something unfathomable (that means impossible to understand). They moved to the West Coast! Besides writing the Fancy Nancy series and other books for children, Jane spent her whole career as an editor at major publishing houses. Recently retired, she finds herself with something she never had before—free time to do whatever she pleases.

Robin Preiss Glasser has illustrated many acclaimed picture books, including the bestselling Fancy Nancy series, Lambslide, Escape Goat, and Grand Jeté and Me: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids. She won the Children’s Choice Award for Best Illustrator of the Year for Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet. Robin actually wore tiaras and tutus when she danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet. Now she happily spends her days in jeans, drawing. Robin and her family live in Southern California.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins; Reprint edition (April 23, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062084194
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062084194
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 5 - 8 years, from customers
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 450L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 1 - 5
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.12 x 0.29 x 7.62 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #209,392 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #680 in Children's Books on Girls' & Women's Issues
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Robin Preiss Glasser has had two careers, the first as a professional ballet dancer and the second as a children’s book illustrator. With over 100 books to her credit, and winner of the Children’s Book Council’s “Illustrator of the Year Award” in 2013, Robin is best known as the illustrator of the "Fancy Nancy" series. Books in the series have been on the New York Times Bestseller list for more than 330 weeks, selling over 45 million volumes. Nancy now stars in her own Emmy-nominated Disney television animated series that premiered in 2018.
"Lambslide," and "Escape Goat," written by international best-selling novelist Ann Patchett, are Robin’s most recent books, as well as "Grand Jete and Me," written by ballerina Allegra Kent.
With "Gloria's Promise," published in March 2023, Robin has returned to her ballet roots. In a partnership between American Ballet Theatre and Random House Studio, she has written and illustrated a book based on her early experience, Her sister and co-author of this book, Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman, collaborated with her on their first book together, "You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum," published in 1998.
Robin has two grown children, Sasha and Benjamin, and lives in San Juan Capistrano, California, with her husband, attorney Robert Berman and 2 badly behaved dogs, Audrey Hepburn and Pablo Picasso.
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Jane O'Connor is the author of more than thirty books for children, including the New York Times bestselling Fancy Nancy series, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser, and the Nina, Nina Ballerina stories, illustrated by Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan. Fancy Nancy was nominated for the Quill Award for Best Picture Book in 2007. The Emperor's Silent Army: Terra Cotta Warriors of Ancient China won Booklist's Best Nonfiction Book for Young Readers in 2000. Jane has two grown sons. She was born, bred and still lives in New York City with her husband and their canine companion, Arrow.
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Customers find this book suitable for first-grade readers, with one noting it's a great first chapter book. Moreover, the story receives positive feedback for being fun and age-appropriate for 7-8 year olds, while the mystery content engages readers. Additionally, the book's chapters are short, making it accessible for young readers.

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35 customers mention "Readability"35 positive0 negative

Customers find the book highly readable, particularly noting it is suitable for first-grade readers.

"...As such, she is a very good reader. Although she still loves the books, it was time for a chapter book, and Jane O'Connor delivered!..." Read more

"Nancy Clancy is basically Fancy Nancy but smarter. She's nice and fancy! I think Nancy Clancy is VERY good for little girls and boys!..." Read more

"...This first book did not disappoint. Nancy had to solve a mystery and ended up solving two!" Read more

"...Part of that has to do with the length and the grayscale artwork which is nice but not the glorious color canvases of the main series...." Read more

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Customers find the book engaging for young readers, particularly granddaughters, with one customer noting it serves as a wonderful introduction to reading for girls.

"...That kind of a minor modification. Otherwise, the book was easy and fun to read with her and for me!..." Read more

"...She's nice and fancy! I think Nancy Clancy is VERY good for little girls and boys! I think Nancy Clancy is a great book!" Read more

"...O'Connor provides just enough clues for young readers to make logical guesses about the outcomes, and the clues are well spaced within the..." Read more

"...She absolutely loved it, and then played detective for an hour after we were done. I highly recommend this book...." Read more

18 customers mention "Fun story"18 positive0 negative

Customers find the story fun and engaging, particularly suitable for 7-8 year olds, with one customer noting it's more complex than other books in the series.

"...My daughter was thrilled with it and I found the story to be very cute. Some pictures are included, too, so it is visually appealing, too." Read more

"...The story and content are very age appropriate for my daughter, and this is coming from a fairly conservative and over protective dad...." Read more

"...The story is fun in its inclusion of characters from previous Fancy Nancy books, notably Bree and Rhonda and Wanda...." Read more

"...The story is also more complex with a couple mysteries to solve as well as some conflict with friends and family...." Read more

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Customers enjoy the mystery content in the book, with several mentioning they are engaged by the stories, and one customer particularly appreciates solving the secret code.

"...The book is very well written, humorous and lovable, with enough suspense and twists to keep the reader engaged...." Read more

"...to make logical guesses about the outcomes, and the clues are well spaced within the story...." Read more

"...This first book did not disappoint. Nancy had to solve a mystery and ended up solving two!" Read more

"...does the original books, she could follow the story and was engaged by the mysteries...." Read more

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Customers like the chapter length of the book, with one mentioning that each chapter is about 2-3 pages long.

"...In any case, it's a cute mystery with fairly short chapters, which helps keeps kids' attention...." Read more

"...This series has an older Nancy and is a chapter book, perfect to read to your girl or for her to read." Read more

"...Short, 2-3 page chapters are perfect for bedtime. And the story is just as great as ever...." Read more

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Linda Lou
Nancy's First Chapter Book a Classic
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2012
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My 9 year old has been a Fancy Nancy fan since the very first book was published. As such, she is a very good reader. Although she still loves the books, it was time for a chapter book, and Jane O'Connor delivered! Nancy and Bree have become sleuths, with fancy big words and all the mishaps we have come to love, but more grown up. I would say that Nancy is now a third grader. The book is very well written, humorous and lovable, with enough suspense and twists to keep the reader engaged. My daughter received it on a day when she fell ill, and couldn't put it down even though her head hurt. It is very good. The only downside is that it is a bit of an easy read, perhaps more of an early second grade level. I was hoping for a more challenging sentence structure and words. It is a step up from the easy readers, but not to a third grade level. But the "fancy" words are a good challenge and open up a more mature set of vocabulary. Overall, this is a great book. Hopefully more will follow. My daughter was thrilled with it and I found the story to be very cute. Some pictures are included, too, so it is visually appealing, too.

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I grew up reading Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, but I didn't get into them until I was in late elementary school. My 5 year old daughter is a fan of the Fancy Nancy and Gigi series, so when I saw that Fancy Nancy was going to come out with a more advanced book and that it featured Nancy as a kid detective, I had to get it. So I did, and I read it to my daughter during a trip, and she loved it. She made me read it through 3 times in a row over the course of a couple weeks. The story and content are very age appropriate for my daughter, and this is coming from a fairly conservative and over protective dad. About the only on the fly editing (that I remember) that I had to do as I read it was truncate the name of the Nancy Drew book Nancy has from (something like) "Nancy Drew and the Witch of River Heights" to just "Nancy Drew book". That kind of a minor modification. Otherwise, the book was easy and fun to read with her and for me! It also had the unintended consequence of making my daughter ask all kinds of questions about Nancy Drew, which led me to discover that Nancy Drew now has a "junior" version out called the Clue Crew. I've since picked up about 10 of those books in the last 3 months and my daughter has me read them to her religiously. I believe she's turned into a detective genre junky! :) Nancy Clancy has a second book out that I have not yet purchased because the theme apparently is about boys and romance, and like other parent reviewers, that's not the theme I want my 5 year old daughter focusing on right now. So with the 30+ Nancy Drew books out there, we have plenty to read until the (hopefully more age appropriate) Nancy Clancy book comes out, at which time I'm sure I'll pick it up.

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Nancy Clancy is basically Fancy Nancy but smarter. She's nice and fancy! I think Nancy Clancy is VERY good for little girls and boys! I think Nancy Clancy is a great book!

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A Fancy Nancy Chapter Book
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2012
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Let me start by saying that my almost 6-year-old loved this book, but the Fancy Nancy moniker assured us of that before we even opened to the first page. As to Daddy and I, who read the book to her, we enjoyed it, but agreed that it lacked much of the charm of the Fancy Nancy series.

The story takes Nancy through three "mysteries" that she and Bree have decided to solve, a la the famous Nancy Drew. While this was sort of cute for us adults who have a knowledge of Nancy Drew, the many, many references to Nancy Drew went right over my 5-year-old's head. She hasn't read Nancy Drew, and those books are geared toward older kids. While attempting to solve one mystery, Nancy and Bree are concerned that they are going to get caught in a "booby trap." While Jane O'Connor is usually great about defining the "fancy" words in her books, she doesn't provide a definition for this term, yet uses it repeatedly as an important plot device. Likewise, with other words in the book, I kept waiting to see the clarification of something as "fancy," but O'Connor didn't use the term. I realize that this chapter book is intended for an older child than the original Fancy Nancy series, but to leave out such seminal phrasing took some of the charm out of Nancy. Sure, she's growing up, but I missed her overzealousness from the original books.

The story is fun in its inclusion of characters from previous Fancy Nancy books, notably Bree and Rhonda and Wanda. But only brief mention is given to Mrs. DeVine (and she doesn't actually appear in the story), and Miss Glass is completely gone, replaced by Nancy's current teacher, Mr. Dudeny. While I have to give O'Connor credit for adding an adult male to the cast of characters, I didn't care much for the new teacher. First, I had difficulty determining the best pronunciation for his name (and I'm an English teacher, so if I'm having an issue with it, one can only imagine the difficulty an emerging reader would have). He calls the students in his class "Dudes," which just made it seem to me that O'Connor was working too hard to be cute. In fact, he calls them Dudes so often that it actually becomes annoying.

Another new character to the Nancy Clancy world is a classmate named Grace. I was a bit bothered by a somewhat one-dimensional portrayal of Grace as smart, competitive, and conniving. Nancy voices a clear dislike for Grace that really doesn't have any reasoning behind it and doesn't seem to fit in with Nancy's character. I wanted there to be a lesson there, or at least I don't want a story that perpetuates the idea that smart girls are mean-spirited and unlikable and can't get along with each other.

Another problem I had with the story is that, while attempting to solve one of the mysteries, Nancy and Bree have to rely not just on photographs, but photographs that have been taken on a film camera which Bree's mother takes to get developed. This provides a necessary delay in the action of the story, but I have to wonder how many kids today actually have had any experience with film and an actual delay between taking and viewing pictures.

The mysteries in the story are neither too simple nor too complex. O'Connor provides just enough clues for young readers to make logical guesses about the outcomes, and the clues are well spaced within the story.

I would have rated this 3.5 stars if given the option, but it definitely leans closer to a 4 than a 3. We will definitely be purchasing the next Nancy Clancy story and it'll be interesting to see how my daughter grows into the books and how O'Connor grows into a storyteller for this older age set.

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K. Wilson
Great for the older nancy fans
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2013
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My daughter is 6 and a huge Fancy Nancy fan. She still loves the regular picture books and the "I can read" books but she adored me reading this book with Nancy as an older girl turned detective! In fact my dd is obsessed with spy and detective games and books right now so to have a Nancy mystery themed story was wonderful. I really hope there will be more chapter books, I know there is one other but apparently it is about matchmaking a teen couple and I am not sure I want to go into all that with my girl just yet, she isn't a tweenager yet!

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人気絵本の素晴らしい小説版
Reviewed in Japan on January 15, 2018
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米国の女の子たちに大人気の絵本、Fancy Nancyが小学生向けの小説へとグレードアップして登場。
少女探偵ナンシー・ドルーの小説が大好きな（同名の主人公）ナンシーは、親友のブリーと探偵事務所を開設。
二人で探偵らしいコートを身にまとい、まずはご近所の探索を開始。

とはいえ、全体の基調はミステリーではなくホームコメディ。
なので、ナンシーたちが憧れるような危険で胸おどる大事件には遭遇しません。
しかし逆に、その点がこの作品の良さであり優れたところともいえます。
日常の中で起きるさりげないできごとが、小さな伏線となり積み重なり、それが最後で一気に収束していくという話の流れはかなりの快感で、大人でも楽しめるような内容があります。

探偵事務所の仲間ブリーとは暗号の手紙で連絡しあい、手に入れた証拠品からは指紋を検出するなど、探偵らしい活躍も見られる一方で、人間同士の衝突や和解など、シンプルなできごとをつうじて子供たちの世界が上手に描かれている点には感心させられました。
Fancy Nancyシリーズの絵本を大ヒットさせた作者だけあり、笑いのなかに心あたたまる物語を織り込む作家としての手腕もさすが。
もちろん、Fancy Nancy シリーズをささえる挿絵のほうも、ていねいで楽しく豊かな仕上がりです。

本書は、子供たちに（そして大人にも）安心して読ませることができる、優れた児童書の一冊といえるでしょう。

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A must read!
Reviewed in Canada on February 11, 2016
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My daughters love this series after they grew out of Fancy Nancy. Fairly easy read for 8-10 year olds. I love how they introduce 'fancy' words to develop vocabulary. A must buy!

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Five Stars
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My daughter loves these books!

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Amazing!
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It was the perfect present for a 6 year old girl! My daughter loves it. It was simple enough for her to go through with minimal help and the pictures were very good.

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