Cam Jansen: the Green School Mystery #28

By David A. Adler

Book Overview

No mystery is too great for super-sleuth Cam Jansen and her amazing photographic memory Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes...even to the school Green Day assembly. For each can and bottle Cam and her classmates brought in to be recycled, the school has earned a nickel. But when it is time to count the money, all the rolls of coins go missing. Can Cam find the not-so-green thief? The Cam Jansen books are perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books, and Cam is a spunky young heroine whom readers have loved for over two decades.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142414565
• ISBN13: 9780142414569
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

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With pride, principal Dr. Prell declares the elementary school has become a "Green School" with its can collection recycling drive to pay for skylights in order to cut back on electricity. Students have brought in cans that are given to recycling; each can brings in a nickel. The school has 927 rolls of nickels. At the Green Day assembly to show the rolls of nickels to the students before it goes to the bank, the wagon holding the loot instead contains bricks. While the police investigate, photographic memory whiz, Cam Jansen begins "clicking" what she saw earlier in the day in hopes of solving who stole the coins and how. On a roll, Cam gets closer to solving the Green School theft. Targeting second and third graders, the latest Cam Jansen elementary school mystery is a fun tale starring the amateur sleuth at her photographic clicking best as she solves the case. The story line focuses on the how the crime was pulled off but equally on what young children can pragmatically do to help green the planet. The illustrations enhance a fine early elementary school relevant mystery that the audience will love clicking away while driving parents happy (for reading) and crazy (for clicking). Harriet Klausner