Sammy Keyes and the Psycho Kitty Queen

Written by Wendelin Van Draanen

Narrated by Tara Sands

All of the beloved characters are back in the ninth mystery in this popular series. This time the 13-year-old sleuth is up against a cat burglar – literally! Cats are disappearing and Sammy is finding some of them in neighborhood garbage cans – dead! Miss Kitty, a local psycho cat lady, blames Sammy. Meanwhile, there’s something fishy going on with one of the students from Slammin' Dave's Pro Wrestling School that just opened up next door to Sammy’s friend Holly. If that isn’t enough, Sammy’s mother reveals that her true birth date is a year off, so she isn’t really turning 14 and Sammy discovers that she actually shares her birthday with archenemy Heather Acosta. Is it another year of unlucky 13 or is this the year Sammy’s luck will finally change?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Live Oak Media
• Release date: Jan 1, 2006
• ISBN: 9781595199706

Wendelin Van Draanen

Wendelin Van Draanen has written more than thirty novels for young readers and teens. She is the author of the 18-book Edgar-winning Sammy Keyes series—often called “The new Nancy Drew”—and wrote Flipped, which was named a Top 100 Children’s Novel for the 21st Century by School Library Journal and became a Warner Brothers feature film, with Rob Reiner directing. A classroom teacher for fifteen years, Wendelin resides in California where she can be spotted riding shopping carts across parking lots. She and her husband, Mark Parsons, have two sons and enjoy the three R’s: Reading, Running, and Rock’n’Roll.