Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes (Sammy Keyes Mysteries) - Softcover
When thirteen-year-old Sammy finds herself with an abandoned baby on her hands, she sets out to find the young mother, who may belong to a gang, and accidentally jeopardizes her position on the softball team.
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Review:
Not normally a mall rat, young Sammy Keyes somehow finds herself at the video arcade with her best friend one day, blowing off steam before the big junior-high softball tournament. Naturally, fans of this plucky girl detective ( Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy, Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy, etc.) will not be at all surprised to learn that this innocent outing winds up putting Sammy in the middle of another big, messy, dangerous mystery. In spite of her best intentions, our sleuth is soon exploring the seamy underbelly of her hometown, confronting gang members, pursuing a man with "hatred for eyes, steel for a mouth," and trying to take care of an abandoned infant--all while remaining undercover at her grandmother's adults-only apartment complex. Newcomers and veterans of the Sammy Keyes mystery series will immediately take to this not-so-hard-boiled seventh-grade detective and her funny yet issue-laden adventures. (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter
From the Inside Flap:
Sammy?s softball team is in contention for the Junior Slugger?s Cup, and all she wants to do is hunker down behind home plate and catch strikes. But Heather Acosta brings new meaning to the term ?foul ball? as she schemes to get Sammy kicked off the team. And Sammy is thrown a wild pitch by a frantic girl in the mall. She begs Sammy to watch something for her and then dashes off before Sammy realizes that the bag she?s left holding contains a baby! Now there are some pitches that you shouldn?t even try to catch, but Sammy?s a take-it-in-the-chest-protector kind of player. So when the girl doesn?t return for her baby, Sammy decides to go find her. And her search leads her into situations that are just not covered in a softball playbook.
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- PublisherDemco Media
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0606289941
- ISBN 13 9780606289948
- BindingPaperback
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