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Wendelin Van Draanen (born January 6, 1965) is an American writer of children's and young-adult fiction.
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Van Draanen was born in Chicago, Illinois. One of her very early influences was Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. According to the author, the book was "about the magic of growing up and [it] reminded me of all the wonderful mischief my brothers and I got into when we were young". Bradbury's work inspired Van Draanen to write How I Survived Being a Girl, which was published by HarperCollins in 1997. Other early influences include Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown.
In college, the Van Draanen family business was burned down, leading to financial hardship. Wendelin turned to writing to alleviate stress and she published her first book in 1997, titled How I Survived Being a Girl.
Van Draanen is the daughter of two chemists who immigrated from the Netherlands. Before she became a full-time writer she was a high school math teacher and computer science teacher.
Van Draanen lives in San Luis Obispo, California with her husband Mark Parsons and two sons, Colton and Connor.
Selected works
Wendelin Van Draanen: Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief, which inaugurated the Sammy Keyes series in 1998, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America in 1999. The eighteen-book series follows the adventures of a disenfranchised teen as she navigates middle school and life.
Wendelin Van Draanen: Runaway
Runaway, a companion book to the Sammy Keyes series, is about a girl named Holly who tries to escape from her latest foster home.
In 2004 and 2005 Van Draanen wrote Shredderman, a four-
book series for younger readers about a fifth grade boy who assumes a secret identity to help him win the battle for truth and justice.
Wendelin Van Draanen: Flipped
She American writer Wendelin Van Draanen (born January 6, 1965) is an American writer of children's and young-adult fiction. Van Draanen was born in Chicago, Illinois. One of her very early influences was Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. According to the author, the book was "about the magic of growing up and [it] reminded me of all the wonderful mischief my brothers and I got into when we were young". Bradbury's work inspired Van Draanen to write How I Survived Being a Girl, which was published by HarperCollins in 1997. Other early influences include Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown. In college, the Van Draanen family business was burned down, leading to financial hardship. Wendelin turned to writing to alleviate stress and she published her first book in 1997, titled How I Survived Being a Girl. Van Draanen is the daughter of two chemists who immigrated from the Netherlands. Before she became a full-time writer she was a high school math teacher and computer science teacher. Van Draanen lives in San Luis Obispo, California, with her husband Mark Parsons and two sons, Colton and Connor. Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief, which inaugurated the Sammy Keyes series in 1998, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America in 1999. The eighteen-book series follows the adventures of a disenfranchised teen as she navigates middle school and life. Runaway, a companion book to the Sammy Keyes series, is about a girl named Holly who tries to escape from her latest foster home. From 2004 to 2006 Van Draanen wrote Shredderman, a four-book series for younger readers about a fifth grade boy who assumes a secret online identity to help him win a battle against the school bully Bubba Bixby. She also wrote the standalone teen romance Flipped in a he-said she-sai Sammy Keyes is a novel. The hardcover edition of the first book. Sammy Keyes is a series of mystery novels written by Wendelin Van Draanen for children aged 10–16. The series focuses on Sammy's adventures as an amateur sleuth. The books, which are narrated in the first-person perspective by Sammy, involve detective fiction as well as comedy. Sammy begins her adventures in the first book as a seventh-grader, and the series ends when she completes the eighth grade. The series ran for eighteen books. The Sammy Keyes novels are based in the fictional town of Santa Martina, which is located in California. Santa Martina is closely based on the real city of Santa Maria, California, down to names of streets used throughout the series, and well known landmarks. Other fictional cities frequently mentioned are Santa Luisa (San Luis Obispo), and Sisquane (Sisquoc). The city of Pomloc is also mentioned once, a reference to the city of Lompoc. All of these places are located near to the real city of Santa Maria. Sammy is an unofficial teenage detective who solves mysteries while also dealing with her
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After a dog she is watching disappears from a city parade and the owner receives a ransom note, thirteen-year-old Sammy must use her detective skills to solve the mystery.Tags
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2. The manipulative Mrs. Landvogt makes Sammy find her pomeranian dog which disappeared during the Christmas parade.
3. The dreaded Mrs. Graybill takes ill and dies.
4. Sammy schemes to expose Heather Acosta as the person who let loose the cats at the Christmas parade.
Seems to be less mystery than it is Sammy’s personal growth.Members
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Sammy Keyes
Author Wendelin Van Draanen Country United States Language English Genre Publisher Random House Published 1997-2014 Media type Print Setting