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Sammy Keyes and the runaway elf

After a dog she is watching disappears from a city parade and the owner receives a ransom note, thirteen-year-old Sammy must use her detective skills to solve the mystery.

Main Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Dell Yearling, 2002.
Series: Sammy Keyes ; 4
Subjects:
Keyes, Sammy (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction.
Dogs > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: After a dog she is watching disappears from a city parade and the owner receives a ransom note, thirteen-year-old Sammy must use her detective skills to solve the mystery.
Item Description: Originally published: 1999.
Physical Description: 185 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN: 037580255X
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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