Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Van Draanen, Wendelin. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780679888390.

With this debut book of a new mystery series, Wendelin Van Draanen establishes Samantha Keyes as a crime fighter to watch. Though, actually, the book opens with Sammy watching...a crime in progress. And when the man with the wad of cash in one hand and the open purse in the other catches Sammy watching him, the chase is on--but is Sammy on the trail of the thief, or is he on hers? If the police dont believe Sammys story about a thief with black gloves, black glasses, and a black beard, she isnt too surprised. Vice principal Caan didnt exactly believe her either when she explained that she couldnt possibly have broken Heathers nose. Well, Sammys not putting up with this. Does she look like a liar? She knows what she saw and how hard she can hit. And somehow shes going to prove it.