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Sammy Keyes and the night of skulls

Junior high detective Sammy Keyes and her friends take a detour through a graveyard on Halloween night and find themselves in the middle of a mystery involving missing people, human skulls, and a ghoulish embalmer, while school presents its own set of tricks and treats.

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Main Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Sammy Keyes ; 14
Subjects:
Keyes, Sammy (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction.
Halloween > Juvenile fiction.
Missing persons > Juvenile fiction.
Skeleton > Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction.
Schools > Juvenile fiction.
Mystery fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:Junior high detective Sammy Keyes and her friends take a detour through a graveyard on Halloween night and find themselves in the middle of a mystery involving missing people, human skulls, and a ghoulish embalmer, while school presents its own set of tricks and treats.
Item Description:Series statement from dust jacket.
Physical Description:304 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780375897351 (ebook)
0375897356 (ebook)
9780375961083
0375961089
9780375861086 (hbk.)
0375861084 (hbk.)
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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