Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Not even a threatening note will stop determined young Nancy Drew from keeping her commitment to visit the two maiden ladies who live in the Turnbull Mansion. She...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Oh, the scrapes Nancy Drew gets herself in! At the beginning of this episode, we find her gagged, and bound hand and foot as a captive of three scoundrels: Tom To...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. If Nancy Drew is anything, she is a good friend to those in need. Emily Crandall certainly needs a good friend to help restore her inheritance and, if possible, c...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Do you remember the sullen and rather rude girl who applied to become the housekeeper for the Drew family? Well, Mary Mason is back in the story! How could this r...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Somehow, Nancy Drew just can’t seem to avoid becoming involved in a thrilling mystery. With the puzzling disappearance of the Crandall jewels on her mind, Nancy i...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Please enjoy Nancy’s story as she anticipates a glimpse of the famous Crandall jewels. Looking forward to this thrilling opportunity helps her endure the stress o...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. What a wonderful surprise! Nancy Drew discovered that the car she flagged down on the lake road contained her father and Laura Pendleton! Now the three of them ca...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. In her attempt to rescue the REAL Jacob Aborn from the dungeon where he has been held captive, Nancy Drew has fallen into the clutches of the notorious Stumpy Dow...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Brave Nancy Drew has a plan to help Laura Pendleton. She tried to confront Jacob Aborn, Laura’s cruel guardian, but she didn’t learn much from him. Nancy still feels ...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Nancy Drew really owes a large debt of gratitude to Laura Pendleton, who saved her life out on Moon Lake. So, she is happy to do something to help the girl escape...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Poor Laura Pendleton! Her new guardian seems like a terrible person. He’s not very kind to her, and poor Laura has to be uprooted from everything that’s comfortable and go li...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. In 1930, the first three books in the Nancy Drew series were published at the same time in order to introduce the world to this brilliant young detective. The Bungalow My...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. While Nancy Drew was sleeping after her trying ordeal at night in the hidden staircase and subterranean passage, Nathan Gombit visited the Turnbull sisters and co...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Because Nancy Drew is so certain that Nathan Gombit must somehow be involved in the mysterious hauntings at the Turnbull Mansion, she decides she will go to his h...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Because Nancy Drew is so certain that Nathan Gombit must somehow be involved in the mysterious hauntings at the Turnbull Mansion, she decides she will go to his h...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Nancy Drew can’t seem to help attracting mysterious adventures. When she visits her old friend Abigail Rowen, she learns about a haunted mansion and promises to h...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Here is the first part of Nancy Drew’s second mysterious adventure, The Hidden Staircase! When this book was originally published in 1930 it had 25 chapters and incl...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. What was written in the little notebook Nancy found hidden in the old Crowley clock? If she hadn’t been reading very carefully, she may have missed the brief comm...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Nancy discovered that robbers have ransacked the Topham bungalow and packed all of the household goods into a moving van! Could the old Crowley clock be inside? A...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. After learning from the Tophams where the old Crowley clock has been stored, Nancy tried to figure out a way to visit Moon Lake without causing the Tophams to bec...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. As Nancy visits the relatives of Josiah Crowley, she discovers that he has promised each of them that he would leave them some inheritance after his death. But st...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Nancy Drew is determined to discover the second will Josiah Crowley made… if it still exists! But that Topham family is unscrupulous and conniving. Nancy is sure ...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Who hasn’t heard of Nancy Drew, the girl detective? Here is the first volume of her adventures: The Secret of the Old Clock. In chapters one, two, and th...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. After a wonderful cousin-filled summer with friendships and adventures and excitement, it is time to close the cover of this lovely book. The Story Girl, the King...

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. It’s apple picking time up at the Hill Farms, and the whole group of cousins is busy harvesting the ripe beauties and listening to the Story Girl weave tales. Thi...