Color Me Criminal

A Carmen Sandiego Mystery

by Ellen Weiss, S. M. Taggart (Illustrator)

Carmen Sandiego has stolen all the colors from Arizona’s Painted Desert—and that spells certain extinction for the rare Painted Desert Glossy Snake! The ACME Chief’s niece Maya and her friend Ben are on the case. Will a chain of crazy clues—stretching from New York’s Empire State Building to the Iditarod dogsled race in Alaska—lead them to the infamous thief?

144 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

Ellen Weiss has written lots of books for kids, from board books through middle grade. She often works with her husband, Mel Friedman.

Reviews

[Beth Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read aloud to Emma and Will. A silly mystery with a fair amount of geography thrown in. A little old for then, so I found myself having to stop and explain a number of times.