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Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy

Sammy continues to make life with her grandmother interesting as she tries to discover who is stealing from St. Mary's church, befriends a homeless girl, and plays in a softball tournament against a bitter rival.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Van Draanen, Wendelin
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Yearling Books, 1999.
Series:	Sammy Keyes ; 3
Subjects:	Keyes, Sammy (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction. Softball > Juvenile fiction. Homelessness > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Sammy continues to make life with her grandmother interesting as she tries to discover who is stealing from St. Mary's church, befriends a homeless girl, and plays in a softball tournament against a bitter rival.
Physical Description:	210 pages
ISBN:	9780375801839 0375801839
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)