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Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy (Sammy Keyes #3)
She is supposed to be in church to get "out" of trouble...
Sammy is working off some junior high detention time by helping out at St. Mary's, but when Father Mayhew discovers that his ivory cross has been stolen, Sammy becomes the prime suspect. While she's looking for the real culprit, Sammy is amazed to find how much gossip and petty jealousy there is bubbling under the...more
Sammy is working off some junior high detention time by helping out at St. Mary's, but when Father Mayhew discovers that his ivory cross has been stolen, Sammy becomes the prime suspect. While she's looking for the real culprit, Sammy is amazed to find how much gossip and petty jealousy there is bubbling under the...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
April 20th 1999
by Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Jan 24, 2013
Doris
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
Young adults, teens, preteen
This Scholastic novel was well written with a preteen audience in mind. Our heroine, Sammy, is a displaced person, living in her grandmother's house after being abandoned by her parents. She is picked on at school by some of the older children, and for the background of this book, is paying for her misbehavior by working at the church as a sort of community service (school not court ordered).
While she is at the church, thefts occur, and finger pointing abounds. In order to find out who among th...more
While she is at the church, thefts occur, and finger pointing abounds. In order to find out who among th...more
Although I'm only giving this three stars, I still really enjoyed it and would gladly recommend this book to anyone looking for a fun mystery in an easy read. I just felt it wasn't QUITE as tightly written as the first two books (or my favorite, "S.K. & the Wild Things", which comes much later but which was my first read of the series). It felt like a few too many characters. It takes a while to be able to keep all the nuns straight, and the end was a bit more predictable or easy to figure o...more
I remembered reading these books when I was little and after days of exam studying stumbled across one that I hadn't read in the library. I picked it up figuring that it would be good for my exam fried brain to read something a little lighter then usual.
Well, first of all I'd just like to say that in many respects I was wrong. While the tone may be lighter than the average "adult" book, the themes were no less mature. I was completely blown away with not only how many societal issues this book a...more
Well, first of all I'd just like to say that in many respects I was wrong. While the tone may be lighter than the average "adult" book, the themes were no less mature. I was completely blown away with not only how many societal issues this book a...more
Oct 13, 2011
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The Title of this book is "Sammy Keys ,and the sister of mercys " By Wendelin Van Draanen.This book was published on Apirl 20th 1999. This book has a total on 224 pages.I personally read this book in about to weeks .The main charcater is Sammy cause she because she is the one being acussent for the cross missing.
The setting of the story is the church, this is the main part were all the action happens. There is really no good guy in this story.The major conflict in this story is that sammy gets...more
The setting of the story is the church, this is the main part were all the action happens. There is really no good guy in this story.The major conflict in this story is that sammy gets...more
Great mystery series for grades 4-6. Sammy is a fascinating detective character--abandoned by her mom and living in senior housing with grandma, friends with everyone in the neighborhood and softball player extraordinaire. She is smart and thoughtful, and in this book uses her skill to solve a crime at the local Catholic Church where she's doing community service following a badly executed plan to get back at a nasty kid. Our lunchtime book group (grade 5) ate this one up and went looking for mo...more
Another great Sammy Keyes mystery. I love this girl! The only thing I can complain about Wendelin Van Draanen's style of writing and what I have really disliked in this series is how she has Sammy retell with her updated events of what has happened over and over again to various people. There has to be a better way to it. I have just skipped over those parts in all the books. Why do I want to reread what I just read? Why do I want to reread what I just read? (you get the idea). I figured out who...more
This is a cute book for youth, it does bounce back and forth with the plots of several things going on at once. I thought it should stay with what the "Mystery" portion of it was. Too much on her relationships at school and at soft-ball, although she does eventually bring them together, in a way. I read it while I was tending the grandkids, so it was good that it was fast and easy to read!
Why is is so hard to find good middle school mysteries. This one was ok.
Sammy (girl) is putting time in at the local church as community service. While there she meets a homeless girl some regular nuns and some wacky nuns. And then there’s lessons in safe cracking and the big softball games. A rip roaring good mystery and generally great book.
Sammy (girl) is putting time in at the local church as community service. While there she meets a homeless girl some regular nuns and some wacky nuns. And then there’s lessons in safe cracking and the big softball games. A rip roaring good mystery and generally great book.
This is a great mystery story of Sammy Keys, an average teenage girl. The mystery starts in the opening chapter, when she is doing community service at a local church. Sammy sees a girl walk in, then a few minutes latter, the head of her church calls her into his office and accuses her of stealing his most prized possession, his cross. When she denies it, he kicks her out of his office. Sammy doesn't see the mysterious girl again, until latter in the story. They become the best of friends, and a...more
Sammy Keyes is sent to a church for community service. A troupe of traveling nuns stops by to put on a fundraiser, while the nuns in-residence grumble about the troupe's flamboyance. Items from the church start to disappear and Sammy starts to investigate. This is a wonderful mystery book and it keeps you wondering who-dun-it?
A fun read. One of the marks of a good writer is that they can transport you. When I could practically smell the paint and feel the drips I knew I was in for a good read. The softball game descriptions practically had my own adrenaline rushing. And I'm always up for a few good laughs, so this book is a winner in my book.
Oct 19, 2011
Christina
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
fiction-contemporary,
with-derek
Another Sammy Keyes hit. These are simple middle-school-aged mysteries that move pretty quickly. I think the reason I like them so much is that Sammy does such an excellent job dealing with the bully at school who torments her.
I did figure out the mystery pretty early, but it was still enjoyable.
I did figure out the mystery pretty early, but it was still enjoyable.
i liked the mystery of this book. i mean it wasn't too predictable but there were new things happening to the main chracter quickly which maintained the apce of the book. I definitely liked it, and it was mystery too. All ages can read this book and very fun to read too.
Again, living along side of Sammy is a treat. Who would ever have guessed the ending of this one. One other thing I like about this whole series is that Sammy is no angel. She gets into more trouble in a book than I did in a year at her age. She lives and feels so real.
4.5 Once again, I'm given a HILARIOUS story with awesome characters and an awesome plot. Even though this is my favorite series of all time, and I know what I'll get from each book, I'm still surprised with how well the books turn out!!!
This is a good story for a pre-teen. I found the mystery a bit too predictable, but the story was fun. I loved the softball part of the story. Although this is the third book in the series, and I haven't read the first two, I was still able to follow the story well.
Kyler has me obsessed with this series. We are now listening to the 4th one on CD in class. I think I now have the 5th graders obsessed! I love this series for kids!!!!!!!
More awesomeness from Sammy Keyes. In this book she befriends a runaway girl, explains why she loves being the catcher in softball and tracks down the church thief.
Helping out at the local church lands Sammy in hot water, as per usual. Nuns, priests, and the quirky locals are all added to the list of suspects in this fun mystery.
Sammy is a fantastic narrator, funny and thoughtful. The story was a nice mix of mystery and everyday life, and there were plenty of suspects to choose from.
i just got it at the book fair for a dollar and it was HILARIOUS. I mean its about nuns.. The best thing i think is that sammy calls their SUV a "nunmobile"
This was super funny! I love the nuns who act exactly like all the nuns i've met so far, very "religious" but these nuns have something to hide!
I really enjoy the Sammy Keyes Series it's a good mixture of humor, mystery, confusion, and just a middleschooler's every day life
Very predictable but still loving the characters. The is the book that introduces us to holly -- the main character in "runaway."
yay =] sammy keyes is BACKKKK!! i mean, come on, she sneaks up her grandma's fire escape every day. so read it.
(youth review) I didn't really understand this one. I liked the others in the series better. ~Kevin, 3rd grade, MIS
Good story and good reading of it, but I didn't like how the girls in the story were so mean to each other.
This book rambled at times but had a good underlying theme to it if it doesn't get lost in the ramble.
My first Sammy Keyes ah memories great book just finished rereading
For about the hundredth time.
For about the hundredth time.
One of my favorite series growing up as a child. (: They still entertain me years after I read it.
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Wendelin Van Draanen (born January 6, 1965, Chicago, Illinois) is an American author of children's books. She lives in California with her husband Mark Parsons and two sons, Colton and Connor. The daughter of chemists who emigrated to the U.S. from Holland, she worked as a math teacher and then as a high school computer science teacher before becoming a full-time writer. Her books feature spunky l...more
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