From their first meeting in second grade through seventh grade, a young girl pursues her sweetheart, Bryce, but everything turns upside down the following year, when Bryce becomes the pursuer and she finally starts losing interest. R...

Sammy's never been what you might call lucky. But finding a dead cat on her birthday? That ranks up there in her top-10 unluckiest moments. And not just because it was the ugliest dead thing she'd ever seen. No, it was more the chain ...

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...

Alvin Bixby: Hulking, knuckles of steel, hideous breath, foul temper. Kids call him: Bubba. Nolan Byrd: Puny, power walker, math genius, can't keep shoes tied. Kids call him: Nerd.Bubba has been the bane of Nolan's existence for five ...

Shredderman.com just made the national news! Everyone is talking about the new cyber-superhero. Oh yeah!But now people are dying to know who is behind Shredderman.com. Reporters are snooping all over Cedar Valley! Oh no!Nolan's parent...

Alvin Bixby: Hulking, knuckles of steel, hideous breath, foul temper. Kids call him: Bubba. Nolan Byrd: Puny, power walker, math genius, can't keep shoes tied. Kids call him: Nerd.Bubba has been the bane of Nolan's existence for five ...

Now with a bright new paperback look, the fifth book in the middle-grade mystery series starring the Edgar Award-winning Sammy Keyes!What's supposed to be a quiet weekend in the country turns into a crossroads adventure when Sammy and...

The elusive Lady Lana (a.k.a. Sammy's mom) ran off to Hollywood nearly a year ago to get "discovered." But when Sammy discovers that her mom has changed her name, dyed her hair, and told everyone she's only 25, she decides L...

Sammy Keyes is perusing the neighborhood through binoculars when she spots something fishy at the Heavenly Hotel. She's sure she's just seen a robbery, now she just has to prove it. Now in Knopf Paperback, is the first book in the exc...

And this new adventure is Wendelin Van Draanen's most complex and compelling yet! IIt's Christmastime in Sammy's hometown of Santa Martina, but some people are being very, very naughty. Pranksters dressed as wise men sabotage the Chri...

THIS IS NOT the summer camping trip of Sammy's dreams. She imagined shade, streams, a deer or two. But she winds up in a phony forest with scrubby shrubs, blazing sun, rattlesnakes, and scorpions. Her fellow campers are desperate to c...

Nolan Byrd single-handedly saved his school from the bullydom of Alvin "Bubba" Bixby. He posted proof of Bubba's exploits on the Web at Shredderman.com. Now Shredderman is the school hero! But since Shredderman's identity is...

While serving a detention in the soup kitchen at St. Mary's Church for an infraction committed during her last case, Sammy Keyes becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of Father Mayhew's prized ivory cross. Ace detective that ...

The bad news: Sammy's made a deadly mistake.The good news: No one knows she did it.The delicious dilemma: Everyone thinks her archenemy Heather is to blame.Now Heather's in a major jam, and in some ways it's only fair–Heather's pinn...

The accidental junior high detective Sammy Keyes is back in her twelfth hysterical mystery adventure! Sammy has three wads of cold hard cash in her hot little hands. An old guy gave them to her. Well, actually, he told her to throw t...

"The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)"—Midwest Children's Book ReviewSammy thought she'd seen all the weirdness her town had to offer—and then she met Justice Jack, Santa Martina...

In this pivotal book in the Sammy Keyes series, Sammy tackles the persistent mysteries of her own life.Mysteries like: Who is her father? And why has her mother kept it such a secret? How long can she manage to hide out in Grams' seni...

For junior high detective Sammy Keyes, eighth grade begins with an accusation, an inquisition, and several assorted death threats!The history teacher, Mr. Vince, is being threatened, which at first seems funny. He's horrible! Every st...