Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes

by Wendelin Van Draanen

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044041900X
• ISBN13: 9780440419006
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Random House Children's Books
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

Awesame book!

This was the first Sammy book that I read and I really enjoyed it. It's very exciting and is a real pageturner. It has you guessing until the end and is written very well. The characters are also very likable, especially Sammy, who stands up for herself to the popular kids. Sammy is at the mall with her best friend Marissa when some stranger gives her a bag with a baby, because some scary guy is after her, "Snake Eyes" as Sammy calls him. Sammy has to sneak in to her Grams' apartment with the baby which is very hard to do. Then the girl disappears and Sammy is sure that Snake Eyes has something to do with it. Sammy is very brave and solves the mystery with help from her friends even though she often has softball practice because of the Junior Sluggers Cup. She also gets herself in very dagerous situatins but always manages to get herself out of them. Marissa and Sammy get also blamed on that they sprayed mean stuff on another school which is heathers's fault who made it look as if it were them when it really wasn't. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for an exciting book. Wendelin van Draanen is a very good writer and I loved all the Sammy books that I have read yet. The books keep you coming back for more and I got some new ones and am very excited to read them. I hope they are as good as the other Sammy books! This book is very excitng, has a good plot and you never know the end. I give it five stars since this book is excellent. The series is one of my favorites and is very good. So I strongly recommend it to you and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

sammy keyes-a ten year old

the book Sammy Keyes and the search for snake eyes is a really good book. Its about a daring girl named Sammy and her friend marrissa. They defeat all kinds of villains and enemys handle a baby and at the same time are going to school juggling homework and with all that they still have soft ball practice!!this book is action packed from begging till end !! over all I would give this book 5 stars

A Great Read!

This book was fantastic! It had so much drama! I've read all of the Sammy Keyes books, and although it isn't my favorite, I'd certainly read it again! Please read this great book!

Must read!!! Awesome book!

My teacher got me to read this book. It was so awesome. Sammy is into softball, and having adventures. On each adventure, she finds out something new to help her sovle a mystery. She was given a baby in the mall, but she doesn't who the mother is. The mother of the child told her to come back to the mall later that night, Sammy did, but the mother never showed up. Now Sammy Keyes is stuck with a baby and is trying to find the mother. If you haven't read any Sammy Keyes books before, then I suggest that you should read this book first. It's so interesting that you can't and don't want to put it down because you want to fing out what happens next. Wendelin Van Draanen is a great writer for kids. Check out her other books!

Fantastic Detective Series - Scariest Mystery Yet!

I read this book to my 3 sons, ages 13, 10, and 8. There were times they were all scared and times they didn't want me to stop reading to them because they had to know what happened next. What more could you ask for in a book? This mystery was dedicated to all people who fight terrorists, both big and small. It was written with 9/11 in mind, and, in my opinion, it is a tribute to all the heroes of 9/11. Sammy's inability to understand why any teenager would want to get mixed up in a gang offers the reader constant reminders on how bad gangs can be and how, once you're in, it's almost impossible to get out. In my opinion, this book should replace the novel called the Outsiders (about gang warfare written in the 60's) from middle school reading lists. It is a fresh, more modern view on the subject and better written). My boys and I have read every book in this series and can't wait until the next one.