Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy

Van Draanen, Wendelin

4.11

2,366 ratings by Goodreads

9780874997996: Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy

ISBN 10: 0874997992 ISBN 13: 9780874997996

Publisher: Live Oak Media, 2002

Sammy travels to Hollywood where she meets up with her mom, who has created a new life for herself in order to be "discovered," but what's discovered is a dead woman and plenty of Hollywood starlets with motives. Read by Tara Sands.

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Review:

The sixth Sammy Keyes book is one of the most exciting yet, as Sammy and her friend Marissa decide to blow town and take a bus to the seedy, insane town of Hollywood to surprise (and shake some sense into) Sammy's mother, the elusive Lady Lana. When they arrive, they discover that she's transformed herself into the glamorous, platinum-blonde, "25-year-old" actress Dominique Windsor, who certainly could never have spawned a 12-year-old--let alone a scruffy, no-nonsense girl like Sammy. The plot thickens, however, as Lady Lana's masquerade backfires in the most dreadful of ways and Sammy is left to save the day and solve the biggest mystery of her life. (Ages 10 and older)

From the Inside Flap:

The elusive Lady Lana (a.k.a. Sammy's mom) ran off to Hollywood nearly a year ago to get "discovered." But when "Sammy discovers that her mom has changed her name, dyed her hair, and told everyone she's only 25, she decides Lana needs a little reality check. I mean, it's one thing to have her mom ditch her. But it's another to find out she's created a life for herself where Sammy can't possibly exist.
But Hollywood is a shock. "Everyone is pretending here. No one is who or what they seem in this starlet-eat-starlet world. So when a woman is killed in the room next door, Sammy's hard-pressed to find someone who "doesn't have a motive . . . including her own mom.

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