Sam the Man & the Secret Detective Club Plan (Sam the Man #4)

by Frances O'Roark Dowell (Author) Amy June Bates (Illustrator)

Sam the Man & the Secret Detective Club Plan (Sam the Man #4)
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Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Sam the Man
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Sam Graham is a mystery man. But when there are no mysteries to solve, Sam comes up with a plan to find one in this hilarious fourth chapter book in the Sam the Man series from Frances O'Roark Dowell.

Sam Graham loves solving mysteries. After successfully solving the mystery of Annabelle's lost sock, Sam decides to make mystery-solving his main hobby (after tending the chickens, of course). He recruits his best friend Gavin and a couple of their classmates for a detective club, and together they're ready for any mystery that comes their way. There's a problem though...there are no cases to solve!

So, Sam comes up with a plan: They'll take the most interesting things in the lost and found and try to find out who lost what. But who could a locked box, a very long stuffed snake, and a red jacket belong to? And how will Sam and his friends find them? And...why does that jacket smell so bad?!?

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Frances O'Roark Dowell
Frances O'Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; Where I'd Like to Be; The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away; Chicken Boy; Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; The Second Life of Abigail Walker, which received three starred reviews; Anybody Shining; Ten Miles Past Normal; Trouble the Water; the Sam the Man series; The Class; How to Build a Story; and, most recently, Hazard. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.

Amy June Bates has illustrated books including the Sam the Man series; Sweet Dreams and That's What I'd Do, both by singer-songwriter Jewel; and Waiting for the Magic by Patricia MacLachlan. She is the author-illustrator of The Big Umbrella, which Booklist raved, "A boundlessly inclusive spirit...This open-ended picture book creates a natural springboard for discussion." She lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, with her husband and three children.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781534412583
Lexile Measure
680
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Atheneum Books
Publication date
September 04, 2018
Series
Sam the Man
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV039090 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience
JUV005000 - Juvenile Fiction | Boys & Men
JUV028000 - Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
Library of Congress categories
Lost and found possessions
Lost articles
Families
Family life
Schools
JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stor
JUVENILE FICTION / Boys & Men
Clubs
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / New Experi

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