Wendelin Van Draanen
1) Flipped
Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's...
3) Runaway
Holly's run away before, but this time she actually gets away—and what felt like an escape at first soon becomes a daily struggle for survival. She is smart and resourceful, and she manages to make it across the country on her own. But how long can this go on? It's getting harder to avoid the truth—Holly is now...
Reviews:
"Sammy is serving detention at St. Mary's church where she finds herself a suspect when Father Mayhew's gold cross is stolen from the safe...Sands' voice personifies the Sammy Keyes character, with all its adolescent love, anger, and humor...Mystery fans will enjoy..." - School Library Journal
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My secret life is filled with psychic vampires, wheelchair zombies, chain-rattlin’ ghosts, and a one-eyed cat. But they’re nothing compared to my real-life stalker: a sixth-grade girl named Kandi Kain. . . .
Lincoln Jones is always...
Reviews:
"Tara Sands brings a lively voice and brisk pace to the story of a determined 13-year-old detective, her three girlfriends, and the slew of quirky characters who populate this mystery...Van Draanen has written a solid mystery with suspense, humor and heart; Tara Sands captures all three in an enjoyable dramatization." - AudioFile Magazine
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"Fans will enjoy Tara Sand's spirited telling of [this] melodramatic tale of mystery and abandonment...offers a satirical look at what it takes for a woman to make it in Hollywood..." - School Library Journal
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Reviews:
"Sammy Keyes tries to help out a friend and ends up in a mystery that must be solved or she could lose her home...Sands gives all the characters their own voices, and makes it seem like 13-year-old Sammy is telling the story. A good choice for libraries looking for mysteries for middle school..." - School Library Journal
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Awards:
AudioFile Earphones Award
Reviews:
"The Sammy Keyes series keeps getting better and better. In the seventh title in the series, a frightened teen at a video arcade asks Samantha to hold a package for her. When the girl disappears, Sammy finds that she's now responsible for a baby!...Despite the light tone of Van Draanen's writing and Tara Sands' cheerfully cherubic performance, the book deals with hard issuees - gangs,
...Reviews:
"The narrator uses a single voice with some varied inflections to indicate comments made by other characters...Sammy and her friends...find themselves outside the 'bush' house on Halloween. They discover an open door, a fire set on the floor, and elderly Chauncey LeBard tied to a chair inside. Was it a robbery or attempted murder by the intruder dressed in a skeleton costume?" - School Library Journal
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...Awards:
Edgar Allan Poe Award
Reviews:
"Listeners are immediately swept into the story when Sammy relates that she's observed a crime while looking at the Heavenly Hotel through her grandmother's binoculars...Young listeners are sure to embrace this solid entry in the Live Oak Mysteries series." - starred review, Publishers Weekly
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