Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye
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Sammy doesn’t go looking for trouble, but she seems to find it everywhere. She’s forever sniffing out clues and chasing down bad guys—and driving her friends a little nuts. She’s gone up against thieves and counterfeiters and gangsters and blackmailers and murderers, and always stayed one step ahead.
Until now.
Last night, one of the bad guys caught up.
Last night, someone followed Sammy up the fire escape and pushed her from the third story.
Now she’s in the hospital, out cold. And her friends are left with the questions Sammy’s always been so good at answering: Why? How? But most of all . . . WHO?
In this emotional conclusion to her beloved long-running series, Wendelin Van Draanen shows just how many lives one nosy girl can touch and pays tribute to a life well sleuthed.
Praise for Sammy Keyes:
“If Kinsey Millhone ever hires a junior partner, Sammy Keyes will be the first candidate on the list. She’s feisty, fearless, and funny. A top-notch investigator!” —Sue Grafton
“Sammy’s brave, resourceful, observant and a loyal friend, but this girl sleuth is no well-mannered Nancy Drew. She’s endearingly hot-tempered, nosy, and not always obedient—in short, she’s someone I want to read about again.” —Margaret Maron
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Wendelin Van Draanen. (2014). Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye. Random House Children's Books.
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Sammy doesn’t go looking for trouble, but she seems to find it everywhere. She’s forever sniffing out clues and chasing down bad guys—and driving her friends a little nuts. She’s gone up against thieves and counterfeiters and gangsters and blackmailers and murderers, and always stayed one step ahead.
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Now she’s in the hospital, out cold. And her friends are left with the questions Sammy’s always been so good at answering: Why? How? But most of all . . . WHO?
In this emotional conclusion to her beloved long-running series, Wendelin Van Draanen shows just how many lives one nosy girl can touch and pays tribute to a life well sleuthed.
Praise for Sammy Keyes:
“If Kinsey Millhone ever hires a junior partner, Sammy Keyes will be the first candidate on the list. She’s feisty, fearless, and funny. A top-notch investigator!” —Sue Grafton
“Sammy’s brave, resourceful, observant and a loyal friend, but this girl sleuth is no well-mannered Nancy Drew. She’s endearingly hot-tempered, nosy, and not always obedient—in short, she’s someone I want to read about again.” —Margaret Maron - seriesId
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- content: "Think a combination of Carl Hiaasen's Flush and Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books and you'll be right on target."
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July 15, 2014
Sammy Keyes has helped to put countless bad guys away during her short sleuthing career. Now, one of those bad guys wants revenge in this 18th and final story.When 14-year-old Sammy sneaks into the Senior Highrise in an attempt to catch the long-elusive Nightie-Napper, someone pushes her from the third-floor fire escape. Fortunately, she lands in the bushes; unfortunately, she's unconscious and unable to tell what happened. The author inserts herself as narrator in Sammy's stead, directly addressing readers through a mobile point of view that flows easily from character to character, with bits of back story woven seamlessly throughout. Snappy dialogue, fast-paced narration and glimpses inside the minds of major secondary characters like best friend Marissa McKenze, former nemesis Heather Acosta, and Sammy's melodramatic and self-absorbed mother keep readers glued to the action as friends, family and a mob of high-top-wearing teens band together to solve the biggest mystery of all: Who tried to kill Sammy Keyes? It's bad enough that this is Sammy's last outing; Van Draanen's departure from her proven, winning formula backfires. Without Sammy's endearingly wisecracking personality leading the way, the series' end falls flat.Fans may be better served by stopping with the penultimate installment, Sammy Keyes and the Killer Cruise (2013). (Mystery. 10-14)COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Gr 5-8-Sammy Keyes has faced her share of criminals-murderers, thieves, a meth dealer, a gang leader, and so many more-but it's here, in the final book of the series, that she may have met her match. That's right: this one opens with an author's note explaining that something happened to Sammy. Something bad. Kiss Goodbye isn't told from Sammy's perspective, unlike the rest of the series, but Van Draanen's narrative keeps pages turning. Readers soon learn that the middle-schooler is in a coma after being thrown three stories from the fire escape of the seniors-only building that, for the entire series, she illegally lived in with her Grams. Who would have it out for the skateboard-riding sleuth? She's bested many a foe, any one of whom might want revenge, and it's up to the Santa Martina community, from the formerly cantankerous Officer Borsch to her loyal friends old and new, to solve this one. Longtime fans will especially appreciate the references to past books and characters reflecting on their own lives and Sammy's impact. Van Draanen presents a fitting tribute to Sammy, who is as much a heroine for always staying true to herself and striving to do the right thing as she is for any crimes she solved. Series regulars will want to lace up their high-tops and jump right in.-Amanda Mastrull, Library Journal
Copyright 2014 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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As fearless and feisty thirteen-year-old sleuth Sammy Keyes lies comatose, many colorful characters from previous books visit her in the hospital. Sergeant Gil Borsch, whose sense of propriety Sammy has frequently violated, is determined to figure out who pushed her from a third-floor fire escape. The writing remains snappy in this series-ender; longtime fans will love the chance to give Sammy a satisfying send-off.(Copyright 2015 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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Fearless and feisty thirteen-year-old sleuth Sammy Keyes lies comatose in a hospital bed for most of this book, the last of an eighteen-volume mystery series about a girl whose curiosity and strong powers of observation keep pulling her into the crime-solving business. Many of the characters from the previous books reappear to visit Sammy in the hospital, even her former enemy Heather Acosta. Sergeant Gil Borsch, whose sense of propriety Sammy has frequently violated, is determined to protect her and figure out who pushed her from a third-floor fire escape. Van Draanen gives the many colorful characters, both child and adult, the chance to reflect on how Sammy changed their lives, and even inserts herself into the story at the beginning and the end as the omniscient narrator ("I'm sorry. I know you were expecting Sammy"). This gives the book a different tone from earlier volumes, which were all narrated by Sammy herself, but the writing remains snappy ("Even in a coma, the girl was trouble"). The book isn't a good starting point for those new to the series, but longtime fans will love the chance to give Sammy a satisfying send-off. susan dove lempke(Copyright 2014 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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Last night, one of the bad guys caught up.
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