Sammy Keyes and the Night of Skulls

Authors: Van Draanen, Wendelin
Lexile: 770,
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
BISAC/Subject: JUV028000, JUV017030, JUV019000
ISBN: 9780375897351, Related ISBNs: 0375854576, 0375861084, 0375897356, 0375961089, 9780375854576
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 320,
Audience: Children/juvenile
Synopsis: "The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" —Midwest Children's Book Review

After being chased by a man wielding a shovel, scared silly by a mummy, and attacked by Heather Acosta, Sammy and her pals decide they've had their fill of monsters and head home to eat some candy. But along with bubble gum and chocolate bars, they discover something frightening in their trick-or-treating bags. Something that's definitely not sweet!

Before they know it, Sammy and her friends are following suspicious gravediggers, ghoulish embalmers, and shady undertakers. And somebody is following them . . .

The Sammy Keyes mysteries are fast-paced, funny, thoroughly modern, and true whodunits. Each mystery is exciting and dramatic, but it's the drama in Sammy's personal life that keeps readers coming back to see what happens next with her love interest Casey, her soap-star mother, and her mysterious father.
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