Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy
The
Sammy Keyes Series
Wendelin
Van Draanen
Random House (Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-440-41866-6 (0440418666)
ISBN-13: 978-0-440-41866-5 (9780440418665)
Publication Date: May 2002
List Price: $6.50
Review:
A train station with a lot of weird and suspicious people, a house
filled with over fifteen ladies who are actors, and an Egyptian shrine
dedicated to a lady dear to someone’s heart. If you do not want
to hear anymore about any of these things any longer then do not read Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy. But hopefully you do, and the Hollywood Mummy
would be a great selection for you. It is written by the great author
Wendelin Van Draanen who has written the entire series of Sammy Keyes.
This book is the sixth in the long series.
In the beginning of the story, the bold, brainy, sharp, sassy, nervy,
and on-the-ball Sammy and her friend Marissa secretly take a trip to
Hollywood without telling any adults. They are in search of
Sammy’s mother because she escaped from Sammy and went to
Hollywood a few years ago to start acting. They find her mom and she is
living in a house with other people and they are both allowed to stay
the night. But as they reach the house and get settled into it,
something horrible happens and Sammy can’t help but to try to
figure out what has happened and who did it. She must use her smart
wits and vigorous persuasion to try to figure out who really did the
crime.
I would recommend this story for 9-15 year olds depending on what kind
of reading you enjoy. A really good thing about this story is that at
the end of each chapter there is a ton of suspense. It always made me
want to read more until one day I finished the book. Sometimes the
suspense made me really think and wonder about what was happening in
the story. I would always have a bunch of questions run through my head
and try to predict what was going to happen next. That always made the
book more exciting to keep reading. One thing that I did not like was
that a lot during the story they would not tell or indicate who was
talking at a given point. That made the story more challenging to
understand and it confused me a lot during the book.
I wouldn’t put this book in the category of one of the best books
I have read, but it is a book I would suggest if you need a short book
with a lot of excitement in much of the book.
Review written by Emma, Age 11, Grade 6. Date of review: December
2008.
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