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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
27th Oct, 2017 06:33:09 PM
The Case Of The Lost Look Alike?
Edited by jormis29
I read this nearly 20 years ago, so the details are vague, but I know it was a YA mystery novel. The plot was there was this girl, who was very mousy and plain, going on vacation with her cousin, who was blonde, I think her name was Clair or Clarice. It was written in the first person, so the main character is constantly complaining about what a know it all Clair(?) is while bemoaning how boring and plain she herself was. The main plot is that there is an island on the lake they're visiting, where an old man lives. He lost his daughter a decade or two ago, and has become a hermit. There's also rumors about a treasure, I'm not sure if it was the hermit's treasure or not. I remember a lot of small plot snippets, such as someone finding a picture of the missing daughter, and saying she looks like the cousin. They take her to the island, only for the hermit to get angry, and later the cousin points out that it couldn't be of the daughter because the writing on the photo is ballpoint, which weren't invented at the time. There's also a part where the main character, who can't swim, is on the lake lake in an inner tube, then realizes she's drifted over the drop off. They end up finding where the missing treasure is when they hear someone talking about a "snake tree", which stumps the know it all cousin, but the main character remembers an upturned tree. The roots reminded her of snakes, and the book ends with her going "Nani Nani Boo Boo, Clair(?) I can do better than you!" I can't remember if the book was even that good (The main character was really Bella Swan-esque) but I'd kinda like to know that it's called, and if anyone else remembers it.