by Wendelin Van Draanen Editorial Reviews. Read an excerpt of this book Add to Wishlist. Keep your binoculars trained on Sammy Keyes. This diary of a runaway girl and her search for a home celebrates hope, resilience, and happy endings. For example, Sammy's vice principal "looks like he could be a professional wrestler if he'd let his hair grow out and get a suntan." Although this young gumshoe is not yet a professional herself, she's well on her way-and certainly worth watching. Wendelin Van Draanen Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf Kindle Edition by Wendelin Van Draanen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 60 ratings 4.1 on Goodreads 2,003 ratings Book 4 of 18: Sammy Keyes See all formats and editions Kindle 4.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Van Draanen's novel exhibits all the zesty charm of her previous How I Survived Being a Girl. The solution will likely come as a surprise, and the sleuth delights from start to finish. Readers follow the sleuth through her saucy first-person narrative as she tries to find a burglar who's made a number of hits in her neighborhood-one of which she witnessed while spying on her neighbors with binoculars. She's smart-mouthed and hard-hitting, unpopular at school and on the outs with the law. Although she's a girl detective starring in a new series (her second adventure, Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man, is planned for a fall release), Sammy is no Nancy Drew. Living illegally with her grandmother in a senior citizens' residence, she enters and exits through a jiggered fire door and finds her way into a number of other restricted areas with equal ease. Holly's run away before, but this time she actually gets away-and what felt like an escape at first soon becomes a daily struggle for survival. Sammy Keyes has no keys, nor does she need them. This diary of a runaway girl and her search for a home celebrates hope, resilience, and happy endings.
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