Sammy Keyes And The Skeleton Man Book Report

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Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man

The book I read this month was Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man. This is the second book in the Sammy Keyes collections by Wendelin Van Draanen. This book is a mystery and has 171 pages.

The first main character is Samantha Keyes, also known as Sammy. Sammy has a great personality. She's very spunky,creative and curious about everything. She will always try to invest into something and learn more about it. She lives with her grandma, because her mom went to hollywood to try to become successful as an actor. She has some really close friends, like Dot and Marissa, but a lot of people at school don’t get her and make fun of her. The next main character is Ritas Keyes or “Grams”, Sammy's grandmother. Sammy …show more content…

Sammy dressed up in a costume for Heathers party and snuck in to Heathers room. In her room, she hooked up a baby monitor under her bed. One day Sammy called Heather and insulted her, and Heather wanted revenge right away. Heather goes to her room and calls Jared, pretending to be Sammy and acting very weirdly. Sammy and her friends recorded the whole call and played it over the school sound system and caught Heather. This did get Sammy in quite a bit of trouble at first, but they worked things out, and Sammy solved one of her cases. Now back to the Bush Man case. By this time, Sammy had spent a lot of time at Chauncy's house, investigating, and asking him questions. She noticed how much he loved books and how many old, and valuable books he had. She asked if the robber took any of his book and after looking for a bit, he knew just which ones were missing. The books that were missing were the ones that his mother had given to him, before she passed. This was just another clue that led them to thinking his brother was the robber, and he wanted the books for the sentimental value. Sammy thought otherwise. She knew exactly where to go to look for ancient books. The book store where her friend, Mr. Bell worked. She knew how much he loved valuable books, and how we was in need of books and money. She investigated and found all of Chauncy's missing books hiding in a drawer under Mr. Bells desk. He was very infuriated when he saw …show more content…

Sammy Keyes is her own interesting character, and she is not afraid to be who she wants to be. She deals with a lot of people telling her to be and act different, but she doesn't let that get to her. She always stays true to who she is. I think a lot of us christians struggle with that and we need to realize and believe that God truly did fearfully and wonderfully make

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