Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway

This was one of my two favorites of the Sammy Keyes books as a kid (the other was #11, the Wild Things). We’ll see if it stays that way, but I just adore this book. While I was pretty stressed out by the lying plotline in the first half (where Sammy keeps digging herself in deeper and deeper), there......more

This book made me want to read and read and read and read and read with out stopping. I felt like that this book was the best book I ever read because the author made this book really really intreasting!......more

One of the wilder mysteries of this series! But also lots of fun - as always!......more

The first half of the book was almost unbearable, but not in a bad way—I never did anything as bad as accidentally kill a bird, but Van Draanen really nailed when you’re thirteen and accidentally did something terrible and it eats away at you as you try to hide it. Almost uncomfortable to read, she......more

It was okay, not as good as the others, I didn't really enjoy how the big mystery seemed so easily solved, there wasn't a huge following of clues and the ending..well no one could have figured that out and it wasn't particularly shocking. Sure it dealt with some tough subjects for youth literature b......more