Young Cam Jansen and the Library Mystery (Young Cam Jansen Series #7)

by David A. Adler, Susanna Natti (Illustrator)

Overview

When Cam Jansen, her father, and her friend Eric go to the library, Cam finds a mystery to read. But soon, she has a mystery to solve. Her father's shopping list has disappeared. Cam decides to use her amazing skills to investigate, and with a click, she puts her photographic memory into action. Where was the list seen last? And where can it possibly be?

The Young Cam Jansen books are "appealing mini-mysteries [that] will find a ready audience." (Booklist )

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780142302026
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	11/11/2002
Series:	Young Cam Jansen: Penguin Young Readers, L3
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.16(d)
Lexile:	490L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

David A. Adler is the author of more than 175 children’s books, including the Young Cam Jansen series. He lives in Woodmere, New York.

Editorial Reviews

It's a long shot, but Adler takes a stab at turning a mystery on the slender hope of a shopping list. Can it be done? Not in this effort, the seventh in the Young Cam Jansen, early reading series. Cam—that's short for Camera, that's short for her photographic memory—helps her dad locate a shopping list he has misplaced. But most of this story is spent introducing readers—likely for the umpteenth time—to Cam, her rare talent, and her display of that talent by repeating verbatim a book she read some time back. Natti's artwork, which provides welcome relief from the stilted prose, also provides a clue to the missing document and gives the effort its most obvious appeal. Indeed, a visual-memory game has been tacked into the endpapers and is quite fun. Which can't be said for the story, where anything at all could be substituted for the shopping list—why not a laundry ticket, which is right up there with shopping lists in the fascination department?—serving to underscore the arbitrariness and tedium of the whole endeavor. (Easy reader. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews