Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy

This is such a GREAT book, it was probably one of my favorite Sammy keyes books! In this, Sammy catches a bus to Hollywood to visit her mom-the MOVIE STAR, with her friend Marissa. When they get there, everything goes psycho! First, Marissa and Sammy masquerade as Lana's "niece" since everyone thinks that she's ten years younger than she really is, and her mother Lana looks completely different! To top it all of, she is thinking about getting married! But the guy she is "almost engaged" to has something really weird about him-and Sammy Keyes is determined to find out!

When my mother recommended the mystery Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy to me at a Scholastic Book Fair, I thought to myself, This book does not look good; mysteries are usually never interesting books. Well, I thought wrong. The wonderful mystery written by Wendelin Van Draanen turned out to be one of the best novels I have ever read. In fact, as I was reading The Hollywood Mummy, I could not put the book down, it was so well written. What really pulled me into this book was the riveting plot that Mrs. Van Draanen thought of. She made the plot have many twists and turns inside of it, so you really never knew who the culprit was. At the same time, the plot just made you want to keep reading, and never wanting to stop. For example, Wendelin Van Draanen made the end of each chapter such a `cliff-hanger', you just read on to the next chapter without even noticing. Another example is in chapter five, when Sammy, Lady Lana, and Marissa are breaking into LeBrandi's room so that they can wake her up. They cannot find anything to unclick LeBrandi's lock, and as they are searching through drawers, they uncover a significant clue in the mystery. What happens during that situation just makes you not want to put the book down. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes mysteries and suspense. I am sure that the next books I shall read are going to be other Sammy Keyes books. Happy Readings---- Julia

The books in this series just keep getting better. This one was so exciting! I just couldn't put it down when I got near the end. In the beginning of the book, Sammy and her best friend, Marissa hop a bus to Hollywood to try to bring Sammy's mother back. She went off to Hollywood a year ago to try to become a star. Sammy finds out that her mother, Lana, has completely changed her look, and had a fake ID made up saying she's 25 and born on Valentine's day, when really she's 35. She obviously can't have a 13 year old daughter, so she tells everyone else in her acting agency that Sammy and Marissa are her nieces. But that night, an actress that looks just like Lana, and is trying out for the same part that Lana is trying out for, is murdered. Sammy suspects her mother of killing her and tries to find a way to prove that it wasn't her mother. Also, the head of the agency, Max Mueller has asked Lana to marry him, and he's 65 years old and still worships his wife who died 25 years ago. This book is soooo exciting, and I couldn't put it down! I definetely recommend this book to all mystery lovers and fans of the series. It's a great book!

Sammy Keyes books are my FAVORITE books of all time, because I think most girls can relate to one of the characters in the book and everybody has their own Heather Acosta brat at their school. It is not a way out there mystery, it's one you can follow and become very interested in. I have read ALL the Sammy Keyes books and I want more of them! Scratch that, I NEED more of them. I want more to come out soon!

I really liked this book because it kept me intersted and determined to find out who's guilty of the crime. It also made me think about what it would be like to be Sammy Keyes a dective who doesn't live with her mom or dad but lives with her grams. There really isn't any thing I didn't like about the book. I liked it so much that its one of my favorite books.