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    Chick-napped!
    Chick-napped!
    Chick-napped!
    Ebook69 pages43 minutes

    Chick-napped!

    By Carolyn Keene and Macky Pamintuan

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    Chickens on the loose!

    Spring has sprung in River Heights! Nancy's class is hatching chickens to celebrate. Some of Nancy's classmates are excited, especially Tommy Maron. Tommy has even named all the eggs! But other classmates are less thrilled about the arrival of the little birds. Catherine Spangler is peeved because the chicks are due to arrive on HER birthday -- the nerve!

    But when the chicks vanish from the classroom, everyone is upset. Who would steal helpless chick eggs? Nancy knows she has a real egg of a mystery to crack this time!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateApr 3, 2012
    ISBN9781442459175
    Chick-napped!
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    Carolyn Keene

    Carolyn Keene is the author of the ever-popular Nancy Drew books.

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      the chicks are adorable! And last catch phrase was really funny!
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      This was a pretty good little book. It was the only Clue Crew I've read so far where I didn't know who the culprit was before Nancy. And it was a cute mystery, too, with the little chicks.

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    Chick-napped! - Carolyn Keene

    Day 21, Mrs. Ramirez wrote on the blackboard.

    She turned to the class with a big smile on her face. Can anyone tell me what that means?

    Nancy Drew raised her hand. Mrs. Ramirez started to call on her.

    But a boy named Antonio Elefano interrupted. Uh, isn’t it kind of obvious? Day Twenty-one is the day after Day Twenty. He cracked up.

    Tommy Maron gaped at Antonio. You shouldn’t joke about Day Twenty-one, he said. Day Twenty-one is the most important day ever. It’s the baby chicks’ due date!

    And it’s today, a girl named Gaby Small piped up. The baby chicks will finally be born! A bunch of students clapped and cheered.

    Nancy clapped and cheered too. So did her best friends, George Fayne and Bess Marvin, who sat nearby. George and Bess were cousins, although they didn’t look anything alike. They didn’t act alike either. George loved sports. Bess was crazy about fashion.

    For the past three weeks Nancy’s class had been taking care of twelve chick eggs as part of a science project. The eggs lived inside a box called an incubator. The incubator was made of plywood and had a gooseneck lamp attached to the top of it to warm the eggs.

    Incubate was a fancy word for helping the chick eggs to grow until they hatched. Normally the eggs would be incubated by the mother hen, who would sit on them and keep them warm until the chicks were ready to come out of their shells. The incubator was kind of a substitute for the mother hen. In fact, Nancy and her classmates had drawn a picture of a mother hen with the word Mom and taped it to the side of the incubator.

    Let’s all gather around the incubator and see how the eggs are doing today, Mrs. Ramirez suggested. We’re going to go row by row. And remember, don’t jiggle the incubator. In fact, please don’t touch it at all.

    Nancy was in the first row. She stood up along with the other students in her row and walked over to the incubator. She had to resist the urge to run. She was really eager to see the chick eggs!

    Nancy found a good spot by the incubator and peeked inside. The twelve eggs were basking in the warm, golden glow of the lamp.

    Each egg was marked with an X on one end and an O on the other. This was part of turning the eggs, which the students had done three times a day from Day 1 through Day 18. The Xs and Os had helped them keep track of which eggs had been turned. Turning was something that the mother hen would have done herself if she had been incubating the eggs. It kept growing chicks from getting stuck to the insides of the eggs.

    Just then, Nancy noticed something. Mrs. Ramirez? she said breathlessly. Some of the eggs have tiny little cracks!

    Oh, no, are they broken? Bess cried out.

    No, Bess. I think it means the chicks are about to hatch, George pointed out.

    Mrs. Ramirez peered inside the incubator. George is right. Class, we finally get to see the chicks being born. Isn’t that exciting?

    Should we break the eggs so the chicks, uh, come out faster? suggested Antonio.

    Absolutely not, Mrs. Ramirez said quickly. "No one is allowed to touch the eggs. The chicks need to

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