A Mysterious Review of Lantern Sam and the Blue Streak Bandits by Michael D. Beil. A Lantern Sam Mystery.
Review summary: This book is a superb blend of mystery and adventure with an imaginative twist of a cat being able to communicate with an 11-year-old boy, one that may seem a little far-fetched but is handled credibly and with liberal doses of good humor. An entertaining book for its intended audience of middle-grade readers, indeed for sleuths of all ages. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Lantern Sam and the Blue Streak Bandits
Michael D. Beil
A Lantern Sam Mystery
Knopf (April 2014)
Publisher synopsis: Lantern Sam is the wise-cracking, sarcastic, talking cat (for those who can hear him, that is) who lives onboard the Lake Erie Shoreliner train and is one of the best detectives no one knows about. He doesn't have much patience for humans (unless they bring him sardines), but when 10-year-old traveler Henry can't find his new friend, the exuberant Ellie, Sam's enlisted to help.
A ransom note is soon discovered and just like that, Sam and Henry are on the case, with the help of Clarence the Conductor (who supplies Sam's sardines). But is Ellie still on board the train? Did the salesman with his trunk full of samples sneak her off? And why does that couple keep acting so suspicious?
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