References
“The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake
By Margaret Penrose
I know that almost all girls and boys like vacation stories, especially if they have a tinge of mystery to them. Therefore, I advise all to read ‘The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake’ without failure because it is truly a satisfying book.
The Motor Girls books are interesting, some more so than others. I liked this one because it embodied a mystery and I am partial to mystery stories. The Motor Girls are Cora Kimball, a handsome, dashing girl who masters practically everything she undertakes, Bell and Bess Robinson, twins, who are Cora’s best friends. Of course, Cora has a handsome brother, Jack, who also has two friends, Walter Pennington and Ed Foster.
In this book, we find the girls at Cedar Lake on a vacation. Cora’s mother has just given her a motorboat. Cora discovers an old hermit on an island nearby and she and her friends attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding him. another rather beautiful girl and two other men, of questionable character, enter the scene. One one occasion, they steal Cora’s motorboat and she is forced to remain on the island overnight alone.
Cora isn’t nearly as frightened as she would be under such circumstances, though, and you may be sure she unravels the mystery of the old hermit. I won’t spoil the book by telling you how it ends but I will tell you this that the ending is grand and will make you want to read the next book on the Motor Girls.
MARGIE BOYD
Age 12, 6315 Constance street.
New Orleans”
– Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, 7 Oct 1934
