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Sinister substitute

Seventh-grader Dave Sanchez and his talking gecko sidekick Sticky decide they must rescue an odious science teacher who has been kidnapped by the even more villanous Damien Black, who is masquerading as a substitute teacher in order to steal Dave's magic Aztec armband.

Main Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin.
Other Authors: Gilpin, Stephen (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Gecko & Sticky ; #03
Subjects:
Substitute teachers > Juvenile fiction.
Magic > Juvenile fiction.
Schools > Juvenile fiction.
Geckos > Juvenile fiction.
Hispanic Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: Seventh-grader Dave Sanchez and his talking gecko sidekick Sticky decide they must rescue an odious science teacher who has been kidnapped by the even more villanous Damien Black, who is masquerading as a substitute teacher in order to steal Dave's magic Aztec armband.
Physical Description: 213 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
ISBN: 9780375843785 (trade)
0375843787 (trade)
9780375945724 (lib. bdg.)
0375945725 (lib. bdg.)
9780375894923 (ebook)
0375894926 (ebook)
Author Notes: Wendelin Van Draanen was born on January 6, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated from Holland. She worked as a math teacher and then as a computer science teacher before becoming an author. Wendelin Van Draanen began her writing career with a screenplay and soon switched to adult novels and then children's books. She is best known for her Sammy Keyes series of novels, which she started writing in 1997, featuring a teenage detective named Samantha Keyes. Her popular Sammy Keyes series had been nominated four times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children's Mystery and won with "Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief". Her Shredderman series also yielded a Christopher Medal for Secret Identity. She has also written several novels such as: How I Survived Being a Girl and Flipped.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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