Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes

By Wendelin Van Draanen

"The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" —Midwest Children's Book Review

Sammy's softball team is in contention for the Junior Slugger's Cup, and all she wants to do is hunker down behind the home plate and catch strikes. But Heather Acosta brings new meaning to the term "foul ball" as she schemes to get Sammy kicked off the team.

Then Sammy is thrown a wild pitch by a frantic girl at the mall. The girl asks Sammy to watch her bag and dashes off before Sammy discovers that the bag she's left holding contains a baby! When the girl doesn't return, Sammy decides to go find her. A heart-pounding search ensues, and leads to some situations that are definitely not covered in the softball playbook.

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Dec 24, 2008
• ISBN: 9780307545299

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.

Reviews for Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes

[yummyfishmeister · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I remember being thrilled when I got the first book in this series for Christmas one year. Unfortunately, Sammy Keyes went downhill fast. This one (the 5th book in the series, I believe?) is just boring.

[mutantpudding · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This is probably my least favorite of the books in this series because i hate the gangs plotline.

[liga1996 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

such a fun book i love it i would diffinetly read it again. i often crave reading another but i already read the whol series and im trying to read different books

[curioussquared · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I remember being thrilled when I got the first book in this series for Christmas one year. Unfortunately, Sammy Keyes went downhill fast. This one (the 5th book in the series, I believe?) is just boring.