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Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
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Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief Paperback - 1998

by Van Draanen, Wendelin

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While scanning the neighborhood with binoculars, Sammy spots something strange at the Heavenly Hotel. A man in one room is wearing gloves and rummaging through a purse.

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  • Title Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
  • Author Van Draanen, Wendelin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Children's Books, New York
  • Date 1998-08-18
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 3389203-6
  • ISBN 9780679892649 / 0679892648
  • Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.64 x 5.24 x 0.52 in (19.41 x 13.31 x 1.32 cm)
  • Reading level 760
  • Themes
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Library of Congress subjects Grandmothers, Mystery and detective stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97040776
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Now with a bright new paperback look, the fifth book in the middle-grade mystery series starring the Edgar Award-winning Sammy Keyes!What's supposed to be a quiet weekend in the country turns into a crossroads adventure when Sammy and her friends meet Lucinda Huntley walking her 200-pound pig down the middle of the road. She tells them a true tale of the Wild West, a story of tough times, wagon trains, her great-grandma Moustache Mary, and a century-old family feud.But this feud is hardly ancient history. Past and present collide -- and combust! -- when Mary's pioneer cabin burns to the ground. Sammy thinks the cause of the fire may be a hundred years old, but still, the gas can she finds near the scene of the crime is shiny and new. . . .From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the publisher

Sammy Keyes must be a magnet for trouble...

I mean it's bad enough that she has to live illegally in a seniors-only building with her grandmother while her mother tries to make it as a move star. And worse that she witnessed a burglary in progress--and that the thief saw her. And worse still that nosy neighbor Mrs. Graybill is onto her, and that the thief is after her. But on top of all that, she also manages to make an enemy of the queen of mean at her new school and get suspended on the first day.

Welcome to the wild world of Sammy Keyes!

Praise for the Sammy Keyes series:

"Sammy Keyes is feisty, fearless, and funny. A top-notch investigator!" --New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton

"The sleuth delights from start to finish. Keep your binoculars trained on Sammy Keyes." --Publishers Weekly

"Sammy Keyes is the hottest sleuth to appear in children's books since Nancy Drew."--The Boston Globe

From the jacket flap

Sammy Keyes is perusing the neighborhood through binoculars when she spots something fishy at the Heavenly Hotel. She's sure she's just seen a robbery, now she just has to prove it. Now in Knopf Paperback, is the first book in the exciting new series of middle-grade mysteries starring the smart and spunky seventh-grade ace detective. "This girl sleuth is no well-mannered Nancy Drew. She's hot-tempered, nosy and not always obedient. In short, she's someone I want to read about again. A winning debut!" (Margaret Maron, author of The Bootlegger's Daughter and One Coffee With).

Media reviews

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 08/17/1998, Page 0

About the author

WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN was a classroom teacher for many years before becoming a full-time writer. The books in the Sammy Keyes mystery series have been embraced by critics and readers alike, with Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief receiving the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best children's mystery. Wendelin is also the author of many award-winning novels, including Flipped, The Running Dream, Runaway, Confessions of a Serial Kisser, Swear to Howdy, The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones, and Wild Bird. You can find her online at WendelinVanDraanen.com and @WendelinVanD, and you can follow Sammy Keyes on Facebook.

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