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Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
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Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
by Dan YaccarinoThis award-winning, funny, fast-paced girl-detective series for the middle-school reader features Sammy, a spunky, skateboarding seventh-grader who is growing up, and with her years come the rumblings of romance, confrontations with kids who use drugs, and plenty of decisions about who she should trust...including herself. Van Draanen captures Sammy's honest, funny, fresh voice in an always-engaging first-person narrative.
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Problems abound for the young super sleuth, 7th grader Sam
Paperback Book | Grades 6-9
Grades 6-9 $5.95
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Sammy Keyes: Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man
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Sammy Keyes: Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man
by Wendelin Van Draanen and Dan YaccarinoNow in Knopf Paperback, seventh-grade gumshoe Sammy Keyes returns in her second mystery--a Halloween intrigue involving Frankenstein and a skeleton man in a tale of greed, grudges, and getting even.
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Paperback Book | Grades 6-9
Grades 6-9 $4.95
Interest Level:
6-8
Lexile Framework:
840L
Grade Level Equivalent:
5.9
Guided Reading Level:
T
Age:
9-12
Genre:
Adventure, Mystery and Suspense, Series
Subject:
Cleverness, Creativity and Imagination, Determination and Perseverance, Equality, Fairness and Justice
With this debut book of her mystery series, Wendelin Van Draanen establishes Samantha Keyes as a crime fighter to watch. Though, actually, the book opens with Sammy watching... a crime in progress. And when the man with the wad of cash in one hand and the open purse in the other catches Sammy watching him, the chase is on - but is Sammy on the trail of the thief, or is he on hers? If the police don't believe Sammy's story about a thief with black gloves, black glasses, and a black beard, she isn't too surprised. Vice principal Caan didn't exactly believe her either when she explained that she couldn't possibly have broken Heather's nose. Well, Sammy's not putting up with this. Does she look like a liar? She knows what she saw and how hard she can hit. And somehow she's going to prove it.
