Product Description

Andy and Tamika can’t wait for a weekend of fun in the big city, but Tamika’s aunt Mandy has planned trips to boring museums and fancy restaurants. Even worse, someone is dropping hamsters off the top of Aunt Mandy’s building, causing trouble everywhere . . . and getting Andy blamed. It’s a big-city mystery that only Andy Russell can solve!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #881898 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 2-4-Andy and his friend Tamika are spending the weekend at the girl's aunt's luxurious apartment building in the city. They arrive just in time to catch some hamsters dropping through the air in silk-handkerchief parachutes from an upper-story apartment, and Andy is determined to find out who has mistreated the animals. When Aunt Mandy includes a younger neighbor in their outings to a museum, a ballet, and a restaurant, he does his best to get Andy into trouble of all sorts, and he deduces that Jason is responsible for the hamster incident. Readers will identify with Andy's fears about unfamiliar situations and adults who expect more decorum than the child's parents, but they will also recognize childless Aunt Mandy's growing awareness of her young guests' needs and behavior. Easy enough for beginning chapter-book readers, but with a thoroughly engaging plot, this fourth entry in the series is great fare for individual or group reading.
Lynda Ritterman, Atco Elementary School, NJ
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Gr. 2-4. The title is sure to cause some cringing, especially among adults, but there's no need to worry: the hamsters land unharmed. In this, the fourth installment of the series, Andy joins his friend Tamika on a trip to visit her aunt and uncle in the big city. Andy encounters the parachuting hamsters early in the story. They come drifting down from near the top of Aunt Mandy's apartment building. Andy sets out to discover who dropped the hamsters, but, in the interim, he must endure Aunt Mandy's efforts to broaden the horizons of her charges with trips to fancy restaurants, the art museum, and the ballet. Jason, a kid who lives in Aunt Mandy's building, comes along for the day, and it doesn't take long for Andy and Tamika to figure out his connection to the hamsters. Despite Jason, Andy discovers that he enjoys the urban scene, just as the chapter book crowd will discover that this lively "mystery" is an entertaining addition to the series. To be illustrated by Will Hillenbrand. Todd Morning
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Review
“The chapter book crowd will discover that this lively “mystery” is an entertaining addition to the series.”-Booklist -- Review