Kristie at College

by Mildred Benson

Kristie, a typical American teenager and student of journalism, became deeply involved in a controversy with Professor Radcliff over a missing dinosaur relic. This unfortunate incident seems to foretell disaster for Kristie, who had cherished high hopes of being elected editor to the College newspaper. One of her fellow-students persuaded Kristie to join the Gogglers Club, and she was duly initiated into skin-diving and the strange, lonely world of under-water. It was this new venture of skin-diving which was to prove helpful in solving the mystery surrounding the dinosaur egg and settling the differences between Professor Radcliff and Kristie. However, it was her own courage, straight-thinking and resolve which righted several wrongs, brought fun and friendship once more to the Gogglers Club and reinstated her as a competent journalist.

188 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson (aka: Mildred A. Wirt). Benson was a journalist and author of children's stories. She was a member of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a team of ghostwriters whose work included the Nancy Drew series (writing as Carolyn Keene).

Other pseudonyms: Frank Bell, Joan Clark, Julia K. Duncan, Alice B. Emerson, Frances K. Judd, Don Palmer, Helen Louise Thorndyke, Dorothy West, Ann Wirt

Reviews

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kristie Coleman is a junior at Hagers College. She is on an intramural swim team but participates in only two meets and rarely practices. She's on the college paper but is rarely working there. She does, however, get involved in skindiving. And there is a mystery that takes off about halfway through the book. Despite all those "complaints" the book, written by Mildred Benson (Nancy Drew, Penny Parker, and other books under her name and pseudonyms), is well-written and a good read.

[Karthika · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a 3.5 for me. You could guess the ending if you really look for it. Still a good read.