Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy

Locations
Call Number: Y Fiction / Van Draanen, Wendelin
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Van Draanen, Wendelin	4-week checkout	On Shelf

A Hollywood actress, who had been competing with Sammy's mother for an important role, is murdered, but thirteen-year-old Sammy and her friend Marissa are on the case.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

awesome so true submitted by sjaworsk on June 30, 2011, 9:33am get this

good submitted by kevinhe on July 24, 2019, 3:11pm so interesting book

Kind of like a kid-friendly noir submitted by eilusk on August 3, 2022, 10:50pm LOVED this one. It does a great job tackling Sammy's tough feelings about her loving-but-deeply-flawed mother, and the grime behind Hollywood glitz, while still being funny and relatively upbeat. It's charming that this felt like kind of a "special" book in the series... like the book version of a season finale or a big budget travel episode. It was extra exciting with big drama and lots of new characters and places, and the "fish out of water" element gave Sammy's narration lots of material for humor. I think this could work as an introduction to the series, though it's probably not the best place to start.