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    Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Secret of the Silver Key
    Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Secret of the Silver Key
    Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Secret of the Silver Key
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    Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Secret of the Silver Key

    By Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser

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    Join Nancy Clancy in New York Times bestselling team Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser's fourth Nancy Clancy chapter book about the past, present, and future! Nancy and her best friend, Bree, must go back in time to solve their latest mystery. While Nancy's class learns about time capsules in school, another relic from the past pops up in the present. Nancy buys an old desk at a tag sale and soon finds out that someone left behind a key. In the perfect follow-up to Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth; Nancy Clancy, Secret Admirer; and Nancy Clancy Sees the Future, Nancy and Bree set out to unlock the secret of the silver key in the hopes of finding some treasure along the way. But unlocking the mystery soon proves to be more difficult than they had thought, and when the answer isn't what they had expected, Nancy and Bree learn there are some things that remain timeless forever.

    Fans of Fancy Nancy will love joining Nancy Clancy in the latest edition to the chapter book series. The central theme of all the Nancy Clancy books shines through, showing the power of positive thinking and the will to never give up.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 6, 2014
    ISBN9780062083005
    Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Secret of the Silver Key
    Author

    Jane O'Connor

    Jane O’Connor is an editor at a major publishing house who has written more than seventy books for children, including the New York Times bestselling Fancy Nancy series. She resides (that’s fancy for lives) with her family in New York City.

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    Fancy Nancy - Jane O'Connor

    "That’s really a camera? Lionel asked. Nancy could see the skeptical look on his face. Skeptical" was a new favorite word of hers. It meant a person doubted whether something was true.

    Yup, it belonged to my mom, Mr. Dudeny said. Fifty years ago, Polaroid cameras like this one were high-tech. They let people take photos in a brand-new way. Nancy’s teacher was holding up a silver and black box so everyone in room 3D could see it. The front of the camera pulled out like an accordion with a large, round lens on the end.

    You put in film, snapped a picture, and out popped a piece of paper. In about a minute you’d see the picture appear on it.

    Ooh! It sounds like magic, Clara said. Can you show how it works?

    Unfortunately, no. The kind of film you need is hard to find and pretty expensive now. But I have some Polaroid pictures taken with this camera.

    Mr. D passed around a bunch of small, square photos. The colors in all of them were very faded. My mother is the girl in the tie-dye T-shirt.

    Mr. D, your mom and her friends were hippies! Nancy said. She and Bree were looking at a photo of a boy with hair down to his shoulders and another of two girls with their arms around each other, one in a floppy hat and blue granny glasses and the other wearing lots of love beads and a necklace with a peace sign.

    Grace sat, twirling her pencil and looking bored. I don’t see what’s so great. Now you can take photos with a phone and see them in a second. You don’t even need a camera.

    Well, Grace, that’s the point I’m about to make. A long time ago, this camera was brand-new and cool. Now it’s something from the past. Mr. Dudeny took out his cell phone from his pocket. I bet fifty years from now third graders will look at this and say, ‘That thing is really a phone?’

    Nancy mulled over Mr. D’s words, which meant she was thinking about them really hard. Once the past hadn’t been the past. It had been just like this very moment, sitting in her classroom. The present. And in the future, this very moment would turn into the past. Nancy blinked and shook her head. All this mulling was making her brain feel twisted up like a pretzel.

    Next week, I would like each of you to bring in something from present time. Nothing big. Something that tells about what life is like today—like a desk calendar for this year or the front page of a newspaper. We are going to put everything in a box.

    You mean, like, a time capsule? Lionel said. Awesome!

    Ooh—and can it have a sign on the front that says ‘Do not open until 2064’? Nancy asked.

    Mr. D nodded and explained that their time capsule would be stored in the basement.

    Maybe in fifty years my child will go to school here and get to open it, Clara said.

    Grace rolled her eyes. "Clara. Do the math. In

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