Who's Mandie? (Young Mandie Mystery Series #1)

For one, Mandie's 'mother', who is her stepmother, is viewed as a good-tempered, kind woman who cooks wonderfully, and gets along very well with her husband. In the first book of the Mandie series (not the Young Mandie series) Etta Shaw (Mandie's stepmother) is a brutal, cold, unfeeling woman whose cooking is acceptable, and who is openly cruel to poor Mandie. Irene is much different too. She's viewed as a spoiled, but kind girl all the same, and the usual older sister. But in the Mandie series, she is a mean spirited, cruel, stereotype 'evil stepsister'. PLOT (Warning, spoilers!) Mandie and Joe are walking home from school, and Mandie hears something in the wood. Obviously, nosy Mandie simply HAS to investigate, but Joe firmly tells her he will not wait, because he's expected back home. Mandie is so stubborn! But Mandie is determined to investiagte the sounds, and soon finds a black and white striped cat. It soon gives birth to only one kitten (coughunrealisticcough), with yellow fur. Mandie wants to keep the kitten, but she hears of a family that lost their cat. Could it be the one she found? (Spoilers end here) It was an okay book, but lacked reality and the foundation that Lois Leppard laid out in the original Mandie series.

In the story Mandie hears a strange sound up ahead on theroadwhen she walks home from school. She investigates and finds outthat it is a cat. Now she has to decide what to do with it or figureout whos it is. Can Mandie solve her first mystery? END

I just got this book a few weeks ago and I have already read it three times.It is so good