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When a woman's poodle disappears during a boat ride around the city, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.Tags
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Cam Jansen and her best friend Eric Shelton get mixed up in another mystery in this nineteenth entry in David A. Adler's series of beginning chapter-books devoted to their crime-solving adventures. Taking a sightseeing boat ride with Eric's mother and her friend, Cam and Eric help a wealthy lady when her poodle goes missing, and help to catch a thief, intent on stealing the poodle's jewel-encrusted collar...
Although I have a nostalgic fondness for the Cam Jansen books, as I read a number of the earlier titles when I was a girl myself, I have found, over the course of my project to read the entire series, that the stories get weaker as the series progresses. Cam Jansen and the Barking Treasure Mystery felt a bit like a rehash of the show more previous installment, Cam Jansen and the Catnapping Mystery, which also dealt with a stolen pet, and I had difficulty working up much interest in the resolution of the 'mystery.' I also found Mrs. Shelton's friend, meant to be comic relief I suspect, annoying. Young fans of Cam Jansen will most likely still enjoy this one, but I found it the low point of the series, thus far. show less
Although I have a nostalgic fondness for the Cam Jansen books, as I read a number of the earlier titles when I was a girl myself, I have found, over the course of my project to read the entire series, that the stories get weaker as the series progresses. Cam Jansen and the Barking Treasure Mystery felt a bit like a rehash of the show more previous installment, Cam Jansen and the Catnapping Mystery, which also dealt with a stolen pet, and I had difficulty working up much interest in the resolution of the 'mystery.' I also found Mrs. Shelton's friend, meant to be comic relief I suspect, annoying. Young fans of Cam Jansen will most likely still enjoy this one, but I found it the low point of the series, thus far. show less
When a woman's poodle, Little Treasure, disappears during a boat ride around the city, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery, in the nineteenth adventure of the Cam Jansen mystery series.
GR: N
GL: 3.5
DRA: 30
Lexile: 450L
GL: 3.5
DRA: 30
Lexile: 450L
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David A. Adler was born in New York City. He attended Queen's College in New York City and later, earned an MBA in Marketing from New York University. He writes both fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of Cam Jansen mysteries and the Andy Russell titles. His titles has earned him numerous awards including a Sydney Taylor Book Award for his show more title "The Number on My Grandfather's Arm," "A Picture Book of Jewish Holidays" was named a Notable Book of 1981 by the American Library Association and "Our Golda" was named a Carter G. Woodson Award Honor Book. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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