Trixie Belden And The Mystery Off Glen Road Analysis

According to the American Library Association, over 11,300 books have been challenged/banned since 1982. Trixie Belden and the Mystery off Glen Road is not among these thousands for many reasons. Teens should be allowed to read Trixie Belden and the Mystery off Glen Road, because it teaches the value of hard work, it teaches people not to make assumptions about something they aren’t sure of, and it demonstrates a wide variety of vocabulary words. Firstly, teens should be allowed to read this book because it teaches the value and importance of hard work. In the book, Trixie and her friends and siblings build a clubhouse, and they all work very hard, earning all the money for it themselves and doing all the construction on it. Specifically, “Jim, who had inherited half a million dollars from a great uncle, worked as hard as the Belden boys, serving as a handyman after school and on weekends” (Campbell 15). By earning all the money it took to build the clubhouse, and building it themselves, Trixie and her friends proved to be very hard-working and it paid off in the end. Even Jim, who was rich, did just as much work as the others earning his share of the money put towards it. By showing how hard characters in the book worked on something, this book shows the significance of working hard and working together. …show more content…
Trixie and her friend, Honey, get jobs as gamekeepers for Honey’s dad, and they think they see signs of a poacher, so when they come across a cabin, Trixie assumes, “ ‘Whoever lives here is trespassing on your father’s property and killing game.’ ” This quote shows that Trixie assumes something about another person. Later, she finds out she was completely wrong and she shouldn’t have jumped to conclusions. By seeing the mistake Trixie made by jumping to conclusions about something she couldn’t be sure of, people can learn not to make the same