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by: Wendelin Van Draanen
Amazon.com's Price: $6.50 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780440419006
ISBN: 044041900X
Label: Yearling
Manufacturer: Yearling
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: April 08, 2003
Publisher: Yearling
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: April 08, 2003
Sales Rank: 152832
Studio: Yearling
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Product Description:
Sammy’s softball team is in contention for the Junior Slugger’s Cup, and all she wants to do is hunker down behind 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. And Sammy is thrown a wild pitch by a frantic girl in the mall. She begs Sammy to watch something for her and then dashes off before Sammy realizes that the bag she’s left holding contains a baby! Now there are some pitches that you shouldn’t even try to catch, but Sammy’s a take-it-in-the-chest-protector kind of player. So when the girl doesn’t return for her baby, Sammy decides to go find her. And her search leads her into situations that are just not covered in a softball playbook.
Amazon.com Review:
Not normally a mall rat, young Sammy Keyes somehow finds herself at the video arcade with her best friend one day, blowing off steam before the big junior-high softball tournament. Naturally, fans of this plucky girl detective (Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy, Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy, etc.) will not be at all surprised to learn that this innocent outing winds up putting Sammy in the middle of another big, messy, dangerous mystery. In spite of her best intentions, our sleuth is soon exploring the seamy underbelly of her hometown, confronting gang members, pursuing a man with 'hatred for eyes, steel for a mouth,' and trying to take care of an abandoned infant--all while remaining undercover at her grandmother's adults-only apartment complex. Newcomers and veterans of the Sammy Keyes mystery series will immediately take to this not-so-hard-boiled seventh-grade detective and her funny yet issue-laden adventures. (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Lunch Bunch Book Review 1
Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes was a very good book. Wendelin Van Praanen writes good books for kids ages 10-14 years old. I am in seventh grade and I am 12 years old. This is a good book for kids who like adventure and mystery. It is also a good book if you want to learn more about gangs and grafiti. I liked it because it was a very fast paced action story.
Rating:  - Spy Dude
This book very confusing and I barely know what's happening (so far). All I know is there's this dude named Keyes, Sammy Keyes. Sammy is mysterious. He is like a spy dude. People think he is kind of weird, But they can't know for sure because he is mysterious! Sammy is trying to find snake eyes (dice) but you will have to read the book to find out why this is important. This is not my favorite book because it is too confusing. -Drew
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Sammy Keyes and the search for snake eyes
When I read this book I though it was going to be an o.k. book.So as I kept reading than I liked it more.It is an intresting book.I read All of the Sammy Keyes books.The auther makes a very good books.Know I got my friends reading it.I'll give this book Five stars.That is how good the book is.
Review By:Angela Alvarez
6th grade
Village Academy
Rating: - 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
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