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While investigating why someone is trying to force people from their homes to expand a recreation center, Sammy is distracted by the lies she must tell to cover an accident she caused, but which was blamed on her nemesis, Heather.Tags
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Sammy accidentally makes a deadly mistake, but all clues point to her nemesis Heather. As Sammy struggles with her conscience, she helps an ailing senior citizen in her fight against urban renewal. Sammy's also dealing with her feelings for Casey, Heather's brother, who she's attending the Farewell Dance with on a "non-date."
Sammy Keyes was good ol' Sammy Keyes. Nosey, funny, brave, and full of early teen angst. The last book involved underground dog fighting that I thought was a little too detailed and disturbing for the intended audience, but this was more in line with the others. Good read.
Enjoyable middle grade series. Sammy is a delightful character!
Samantha Keyes, or Sammy Keyes, is dying to tell her accident with poor Mrs. Ambler. An accident that is now hitting on the lying cheat Heather! Sammy accidently slammed the door on poor Tango, Mrs. Ambler's bird, and was ready to hide him somewhere when silly Heather Acosta went into the room and switched some important ballots in favor of her for the Class President! When the honesty of Sammy is threatened, she is mixed up in moods whether she should tell Mrs. Ambler that SHE was the one who killed Tango, not Heather, but how? If she was going to tell her that she was the murder of Tango, will she face certain consequences? Will Mrs. Ambler believe that Heather has been changing the votes to make her "Most Popular", "Most Friendly", show more and "Most Unique Styled"? Or will Heather go in for the worst, and be suspended?
While solving her own problems, she considers her friendly neighbors that say that Carolee Lyons wants to sell their houses, that they rightfully bought, and turn it into their own property. Do they really mean what they say? Or, are some of them actually involved in the scheme, and just want to frame someone? Will Sammy solve this confusing mystery? Or, will she fall into a pit of lies, cheats, and not be able to solve the mystery? Read the Sammy and the Dead Giveaway to find out the details and events that Sammy goes through to try and solve his memory! show less
While solving her own problems, she considers her friendly neighbors that say that Carolee Lyons wants to sell their houses, that they rightfully bought, and turn it into their own property. Do they really mean what they say? Or, are some of them actually involved in the scheme, and just want to frame someone? Will Sammy solve this confusing mystery? Or, will she fall into a pit of lies, cheats, and not be able to solve the mystery? Read the Sammy and the Dead Giveaway to find out the details and events that Sammy goes through to try and solve his memory! show less
I just wanna give Sammy a hug in this one
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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 show more 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) show less
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- Canonical title
- Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway
- Original publication date
- 2005
- People/Characters
- Samantha "Sammy" Josephine Keyes; Marissa McKenze; Mrs. Ambler; Heather Acosta; Tango (lovebird); Hula (lovebird) (show all 22); Annie Willawago; Coralee Lyon; Rita Keyes; Casey Acosta; Leland Hawking; Teri Stone; Marty Stone; Hudson Graham; Captain Patch (dog); Brandon McKenze; Andy Quinn; Joseph Caan; Olivia Andrews; Nick; Danny Urbanski; Billy Pratt
- Important places
- Santa Martina, USA (fictional place)
- Dedication
- This book is dedicated to Martha, my swashbucklin' (and wonderfully supportive) sister-in-law.
- First words
- Grams says that most people have some sort of skeleton in their closet--something they really don't want other people to find out about.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It may take time, but I'm willing to give it a try.
- Publisher's editor
- Siscoe, Nancy
- Original language
- English
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- Tween, Kids, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 010 — Computer science, information & general works Bibliographies (books containing lists of books) Bibliographies & catalogs
- LCC
- PZ7 .V2857 .S — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English
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- 16
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