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Van Draanen, Wendelin

Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes

277 pp. | Knopf | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-375-81175-3 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-375-91175-8 $$17.99
(2) 4-6 A scared teenage girl approaches Sammy at the mall, handing her a heavy shopping bag and promising to return. Inside is a baby. When the young mother fails to return, the seventh-grade sleuth sets about solving another mystery, plunging into the gritty subculture of Mexican-American street gangs. It's heavy stuff, but Sammy's irrepressible personality and wry first-person voice prevent the story from becoming too bleak.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2002

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