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The New Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley #11
The Case of the Summer Camp Caper
Trenchcoat Twins Case Report...from Mary-Kate & Ashley
Ashley and I were so excited to spend the summer at Camp Wishing Well I couldn't wait to go horseback riding. Ashley couldn't wait to go swimming. But when we got to camp, it looked like we might not get to do anything
Everyone's snacks and packages from home started disappearing. And they started showing up in "my" drawers...under "my" bed...stuffed in "my" sneakers. But I didn't take any of those packages
None of the other campers would talk to me. Everyone thought I was the "theif "
It was the first time an Olsen hired an Olsen to solve a mystery
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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July 25, 2015
Love Mary Kate and Ashley
This books follows on how Mary Kate and Ashley solved the camp mystery!
This books follows on how Mary Kate and Ashley solved the camp mystery!
June 20, 2009
Just because your being framed for something you never did doesn`t mean that you should just give up!
July 28, 2019
This is in Mary Kate's POV. It was interesting that the summary said this is the first time an Olsen hired an Olsen to solve a mystery, because someone was planting other campers' goods in Mary Kate's stuff, so everyone thought she was stealing from them, and she needed Ashley's help to clear her name.
It's always amusing when every book starts out by saying they run their agency out of their attic because I've never seen them do anything in their attic!
At Camp Wishing Well these girls Jody and Jackie got mad at Ashley and Mary Kate and started taking their things off their beds, claiming it was theirs. Marcy got them to stop but the damage was done. So when Veronica got there and discovered her cookies were missing, Jody and Jackie blamed the girls.
It's preposterous that they're famous detectives that Marcy saw in a magazine, mystery-solving children solving mysteries since they were...children.
It didn't have much of a camp feel because the image on the bottom of each page is a piece of candy. It should be a tent or something.
This was particularly childish as Jody and Jackie accused Mary Kate of stealing bases during the softball game. They sang "Who stole the cookies from he cookie jar? The twins stole the cookies from the cookie jar..." A staff member said to be at the mail hut to get care packages. "Be there or be square." Very professional...and mature.
Angela's care package went missing before she could pick it up. Mary Kate discovered that all of the candy wrappers from what would have been in Angela's package were stuffed in her pillowcase so everyone thought she stole again. Amy, the counselor, told Mary Kate she'd have to keep an eye on her and Jody and Jackie celebrated. They were my top suspects because they had the most motive to get them out of there, since they thought the bunk bed was theirs. Mary Kate suspected Brett, the mail counselor.
A boy's cashews went missing and he claimed to have seen a person wearing a zebra shirt, which Mary Kate has.
They decided that the thief was stealing so much candy that they wouldn't be hungry for supper, so they were going to look for kids not eating at the mess hall. Clark, the healthy eater, was missing and had been at mail call too. Tim told them Clark had been giving him his lunches and they thought it was because he wasn't hungry from eating candy.
Annoyingly, Amy caught them going through Clark's things because Jackie and Jody ratted them out. They learned that Clark couldn't be the thief because nuts were stolen and he's allergic to nuts, so that's why he ran out of lunch; he ate nut cake and went to the nurse. Big eye roll. It's never the obvious choice in these, and that in itself makes them predictable. There are usually 3 suspects and all of them are proven wrong, by some lame-o loophole like they don't like a type of food that was stolen...it's very elementary.
Clark missed mail call because he was in the nurse station because he's also allergic to grass and most leaves. He has to have an allergy shot every day. Which begs the question of why he was allowed to go to camp when he has so many allergies.
"Does that mean I'm clean?" Clark asked with a grin. "Like you detectives say?"
"You're clean," Ashley muttered. "But your bunk's a mess."
In ceramics class Patty's bracelet went missing and Mary Kate was the top suspect. Only the teacher, Jody, Jackie, Marcy, Veronica, the girls themselves, and Patty were there so it had to be one of them. In the bunk Mary Kate discovered the bracelet inside her shoe in front of everyone, so Amy announced she'd have to leave the camp.
It was sweet how Ashley said if Mary Kate went home, she was going home too. And Tim wrote on a paper airplane that he threw to her not to give up. He'd been telling her the whole time that he believed her.
The 3 of them went to the mail hut and found Brett paying these kids with candy so they'd sort the mail for him. Naturally, they thought they caught him red-handed but you have to go through a couple false accusations before you get to the right one. He bought the candy himself and had the receipt to prove it. So it was on to the next suspect.
I had suspected him in the beginning, until the author threw us off the trail. Tim asked for the cashews that the girls still had as evidence, and when she noted the can was unopened she realized it was someone who didn't like nuts--or couldn't eat them. When they saw a figure wearing her zebra sweatshirt they ran after them and exposed them in the process of stealing chips. It was Clark, who hated the healthy food his parents make him eat and sneaks junk food. That's what made me think it was him from the start. When they blamed Mary Kate for stealing cookies, he realized he could steal and blame it on her.
Amy said Mary Kate could stay and the girls who thought Mary Kate was the thief were smiling and I didn't like that. They should have felt guilty for treating her that way. Clark didn't steal the bracelet. Jody and Jackie did and framed Mary Kate to get both of them to leave so they could have their bed back, suspects and motives that were really obvious.
Thankfully, Amy heard that and was going to call their mom too so they would have to leave. It ended with the girls having 4 weeks of summer camp to have fun. Too bad they couldn't have any fun before that. All they did was have Mary Kate get accused of stuff and hear snarky comments from everyone. It had none of the summer camp fun that I expected. The cover shows them around a campfire hugging themselves like a ghost scared them or something. There was no campfire and no scare no camp charm. It was disappointing because it was almost all about thieving and hardly anything else.
It's always amusing when every book starts out by saying they run their agency out of their attic because I've never seen them do anything in their attic!
At Camp Wishing Well these girls Jody and Jackie got mad at Ashley and Mary Kate and started taking their things off their beds, claiming it was theirs. Marcy got them to stop but the damage was done. So when Veronica got there and discovered her cookies were missing, Jody and Jackie blamed the girls.
It's preposterous that they're famous detectives that Marcy saw in a magazine, mystery-solving children solving mysteries since they were...children.
It didn't have much of a camp feel because the image on the bottom of each page is a piece of candy. It should be a tent or something.
This was particularly childish as Jody and Jackie accused Mary Kate of stealing bases during the softball game. They sang "Who stole the cookies from he cookie jar? The twins stole the cookies from the cookie jar..." A staff member said to be at the mail hut to get care packages. "Be there or be square." Very professional...and mature.
Angela's care package went missing before she could pick it up. Mary Kate discovered that all of the candy wrappers from what would have been in Angela's package were stuffed in her pillowcase so everyone thought she stole again. Amy, the counselor, told Mary Kate she'd have to keep an eye on her and Jody and Jackie celebrated. They were my top suspects because they had the most motive to get them out of there, since they thought the bunk bed was theirs. Mary Kate suspected Brett, the mail counselor.
A boy's cashews went missing and he claimed to have seen a person wearing a zebra shirt, which Mary Kate has.
They decided that the thief was stealing so much candy that they wouldn't be hungry for supper, so they were going to look for kids not eating at the mess hall. Clark, the healthy eater, was missing and had been at mail call too. Tim told them Clark had been giving him his lunches and they thought it was because he wasn't hungry from eating candy.
Annoyingly, Amy caught them going through Clark's things because Jackie and Jody ratted them out. They learned that Clark couldn't be the thief because nuts were stolen and he's allergic to nuts, so that's why he ran out of lunch; he ate nut cake and went to the nurse. Big eye roll. It's never the obvious choice in these, and that in itself makes them predictable. There are usually 3 suspects and all of them are proven wrong, by some lame-o loophole like they don't like a type of food that was stolen...it's very elementary.
Clark missed mail call because he was in the nurse station because he's also allergic to grass and most leaves. He has to have an allergy shot every day. Which begs the question of why he was allowed to go to camp when he has so many allergies.
"Does that mean I'm clean?" Clark asked with a grin. "Like you detectives say?"
"You're clean," Ashley muttered. "But your bunk's a mess."
In ceramics class Patty's bracelet went missing and Mary Kate was the top suspect. Only the teacher, Jody, Jackie, Marcy, Veronica, the girls themselves, and Patty were there so it had to be one of them. In the bunk Mary Kate discovered the bracelet inside her shoe in front of everyone, so Amy announced she'd have to leave the camp.
It was sweet how Ashley said if Mary Kate went home, she was going home too. And Tim wrote on a paper airplane that he threw to her not to give up. He'd been telling her the whole time that he believed her.
The 3 of them went to the mail hut and found Brett paying these kids with candy so they'd sort the mail for him. Naturally, they thought they caught him red-handed but you have to go through a couple false accusations before you get to the right one. He bought the candy himself and had the receipt to prove it. So it was on to the next suspect.
I had suspected him in the beginning, until the author threw us off the trail. Tim asked for the cashews that the girls still had as evidence, and when she noted the can was unopened she realized it was someone who didn't like nuts--or couldn't eat them. When they saw a figure wearing her zebra sweatshirt they ran after them and exposed them in the process of stealing chips. It was Clark, who hated the healthy food his parents make him eat and sneaks junk food. That's what made me think it was him from the start. When they blamed Mary Kate for stealing cookies, he realized he could steal and blame it on her.
Amy said Mary Kate could stay and the girls who thought Mary Kate was the thief were smiling and I didn't like that. They should have felt guilty for treating her that way. Clark didn't steal the bracelet. Jody and Jackie did and framed Mary Kate to get both of them to leave so they could have their bed back, suspects and motives that were really obvious.
Thankfully, Amy heard that and was going to call their mom too so they would have to leave. It ended with the girls having 4 weeks of summer camp to have fun. Too bad they couldn't have any fun before that. All they did was have Mary Kate get accused of stuff and hear snarky comments from everyone. It had none of the summer camp fun that I expected. The cover shows them around a campfire hugging themselves like a ghost scared them or something. There was no campfire and no scare no camp charm. It was disappointing because it was almost all about thieving and hardly anything else.
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July 21, 2026
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The Trenchcoat Twins are off to Camp Wishing Well, but things are already off to a rocky start. Snacks around camp have gone missing and Mary-Kate is the prime suspect. The twins must gather the clues and catch the real culprit to clear Mary-Kate's name before she's sent home.
I've really enjoyed reading this series again. I loved it as a kid. I don't think I ever read this one specifically.
An engaging mystery that is nicely written. I like that this is written in a way that ties it into the rest of the series but can easily be read as a standalone. Mary-Kate notes this is their second time at a camp (after their adventures in the fourth book, The Case of the Haunted Camp).
I remember being so frustrated as a kid that I could never solve the mysteries in this series, but as an adult the solutions seem pretty obvious. This one still has a bunch of twists and turns to throw you off the trail which was fun.
Didn't love how much everyone pokes fun at Tim for how much food he eats. He plays it off well but would be worth a conversation with modern readers.
A fun little mystery. I'm really enjoying rereading the series and reading some of them that I missed as a kid.
The Trenchcoat Twins are off to Camp Wishing Well, but things are already off to a rocky start. Snacks around camp have gone missing and Mary-Kate is the prime suspect. The twins must gather the clues and catch the real culprit to clear Mary-Kate's name before she's sent home.
I've really enjoyed reading this series again. I loved it as a kid. I don't think I ever read this one specifically.
An engaging mystery that is nicely written. I like that this is written in a way that ties it into the rest of the series but can easily be read as a standalone. Mary-Kate notes this is their second time at a camp (after their adventures in the fourth book, The Case of the Haunted Camp).
I remember being so frustrated as a kid that I could never solve the mysteries in this series, but as an adult the solutions seem pretty obvious. This one still has a bunch of twists and turns to throw you off the trail which was fun.
Didn't love how much everyone pokes fun at Tim for how much food he eats. He plays it off well but would be worth a conversation with modern readers.
A fun little mystery. I'm really enjoying rereading the series and reading some of them that I missed as a kid.
December 16, 2018
Look, we've all read books as kids we later realized were stupid and fad-driven and not exactly great works writing-wise. Some of you read Sweet Valley High or certain pandering Goosebumps books; me, as a kid, I had a handful of Mary-kate and Ashley stuff. A few books, a pair of dolls, some of their movies on VHS... Of course I know how incredibly low-brow and petty and pandering their stuff was NOW, but as a little girl I thought they were cool.
Even so, this book wasn't a favorite, just one I happened to own, and -- because it's what I had to do with the precious resource that was books in my childhood home -- reread a few times.
Very predictable preteeny-bopper fluff. Someone at a summer camp steals random stuff (sometimes personal, but often very oddly replaceable, like a packet of cookies or whatever) and one of the twins gets framed for it. She and her sister clear their names in under a hundred pages.
It's dumb, but we've all read this kind of junk at some point in our lives.
Even so, this book wasn't a favorite, just one I happened to own, and -- because it's what I had to do with the precious resource that was books in my childhood home -- reread a few times.
Very predictable preteeny-bopper fluff. Someone at a summer camp steals random stuff (sometimes personal, but often very oddly replaceable, like a packet of cookies or whatever) and one of the twins gets framed for it. She and her sister clear their names in under a hundred pages.
It's dumb, but we've all read this kind of junk at some point in our lives.
May 14, 2026
I love re reading the adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley. This one was a fun read. The twins going to summer camp but unfortunately one of them is accused of stealing and they have to find out the truth
March 7, 2019
I just remember loving these books as a kid. They're probably the very start of my love of reading.
August 26, 2022
Read in 2002. Loved these mysteries as a kid.
June 11, 2024
Read this before I brought it to camp for the campers, very cute book
June 24, 2025
Re-reading childhood books for a summer reading palate cleanse. We love 30min silent sustained reading (SSS) book 😋
July 12, 2025
It's a really cute mystery book. Was predictable but still good.
August 4, 2022
“Yuck-o!”
November 19, 2015
quite a nice story about two sisters trying to solve a mystery while they were at Camp Wishing Will when things began to disappear from the campers and began appearing in Mary.Kate's stuff. enjoy!!
January 28, 2015
i found it very vigerating and hilarious
March 27, 2017
This was a cute little read, as always.
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