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Sammy Keyes and the wedding crasher

When her teacher begins receiving death threats and her own name is near the top of the suspect list, eighth-grader Sammy is determined to find the real perpetrator, but she is distracted by her mother's relationship problems, her almost-boyfriend inexplicalby avoiding her, and her duties as a...

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Main Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin.
Format: Books Print Book
Published: New York : Yearling Books, 2011.
Series: Sammy Keyes ; 13
Subjects:
Keyes, Sammy (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction.
Teachers > Juvenile fiction.
Weddings > Juvenile fiction.
Mystery fiction > Juvenile.
Summary: When her teacher begins receiving death threats and her own name is near the top of the suspect list, eighth-grader Sammy is determined to find the real perpetrator, but she is distracted by her mother's relationship problems, her almost-boyfriend inexplicalby avoiding her, and her duties as a reluctant bridesmaid.
Physical Description: 296 pages
ISBN: 9780375854569
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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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