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Sammy Keyes And The Hollywood Mummy (2004)

Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy (2004)

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0439973546 (ISBN13: 9780439973540)
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Wendelin Van Draanen has really done it this time in Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy. This realistic fiction book is about two girls, Sammy and Marissa, who travel to Hollywood to find and meet Sammy's mother. When they arrive, and finally meet her, they don't get what they expect. Originally Lana Keyes, Sammy's mother is now Dominique. She dyed her hair, and has even made people believe that she is ten years younger than she really is! Dominique isn't what I would call "excited" to see Sammy. She explained to Sammy that she had moved to Hollywood to fulfill a career in acting. She's preparing for the biggest audition of her life, but everything falls downhill when the girl she's competing against is found dead. Sammy, sure of her mother's innocence, is the only one who can and will solve this mystery. But how???I'd recommend this book to anyone who can read and enjoys a suspenseful mystery. Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy is a great book for people who like murder cases, a little romance, and a mouth-dropping ending.

Sammy Keyes and her best friend Marissa go to Hollywood to visit Sammy's mom. When they get there, they find out that her mom has changed her name from Lana Keyes to Dominique Windsor. Her mom has also changed her birthday to take 10 years off her age and cut her hair really short. On the first night that Sammy and Marissa are at the place where her mom stays, someone is killed. Sammy tries to solve the mystery, and soon realizes that the person that was supposed to be murdered was her mom. I liked that even though Sammy's goal in going to Hollywood was to spend more time with her mother, she solved the mystery. I thought that some points in the story were creapy. An example of this is when Sammy and Marissa found the body of Clarie in mummy form in a secret part of Max's office. Clarie's body had been there for 25 years. I think that Sammy is very daring for investigating this murder case.

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This book was very interesting. It was still funny, but it's story line was getting more serious. For example, the girls (Samantha and her sister) finally reached their mothers(Lady Lana or Dominique) house and wanted her to be surprised. So when their mom saw them she was more upset at the fact that the girls didn't tell her that she was coming. So she slapped Sam on the face and told her off. Her sister didn't know what to do! They made up but it took a lot of explaining to do. The book was okay. The thing that I did like is that it had a lot of mystery. The book was about Samantha figuring what happened to the missing mummy! The whole thing had a lot of drama but it was the type the drama that you want to know what happens next. I would recommend this book to who ever enjoys A teenage girl who solves mysteries.
—Frankie Martinez

This book was awsome I think it was the best out of all the Sammy Keyes books so far. But its also kind of scary because getting poked in the ribs by a mummy with a gigantic really sharp pithfork.Yeah you heard me a pithfork. And Sammy started bleeding but she was okay I think.This book was so good I love the way Wendalin Van Draanen kept leaving clues for me and Sammy to follow. One of the clues is when Sammy and Marissa snuck outside Sammy was really smart to notice that Max's office looked bigger on the outside than inside.Thats when Sammy discovered the other secret part of Max's office. Well I hope you read this book. Worood
—Teri Gorleski

This is a very nice mystery book that keeps you reading and always predicting. The hero, Sammy Keyes, has a mother that abandoned Sammy, to work in Hollywood. And Lady Lana, Sammy's mom, barely visits Sammy. Now sammy has found out that her mom has changed her name and her entire life and excluded Sammy from her Hollywood life. Disloyalty between mother and daughter is evident throughout the whole book, because Sammy's mother basically changes her entire life for hollywood. So Sammy now cannot trust anyone, even her mom, when a person next door is murdered. That leads through distrust between mother and daughter. That proves to be a weak relationship but in Hollywood, everyone is trying to be someone else and so leads to Sammy even going as far to find out who murdered the person next door and she will investigate anyone—including her mother.If you are a fan of mystery, then you should read this book.
—Muhammad Salman

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