Product Description

It's the first day of fifth grade and Cam and Eric can't wait to meet their new teacher, Ms. Benson. But the school day is just beginning when two policemen come into their classroom and take Ms. Benson away! A teacher has been arrested? There must be some kind of mistake. . . . Will Cam be able to use her amazing photographic memory to solve this incredible first-day-of-school mystery?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #947345 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 2-4-A disappointing addition to the series. On the way to the first day of fifth grade, Cam and Eric's school bus is stopped in a traffic tie-up caused by a car crash a few blocks away from school. Later, their teacher is taken away by the police, accused of leaving the scene of the accident. Using her photographic memory, Cam is able to establish that Ms. Benson was not driving her car at the time of the accident. Her memory also points toward the clue that identifies the thief, who was driving. Neither of the "clues" provided by Cam could have been overlooked by even the densest police inquiry. It also strains credulity that the officers would confront a teacher in front of her class and that the principal would then leave the children unattended while she arranged for a sub.
Lisa Smith, Lindenhurst Memorial Library, NY
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
K-Gr. 2. On the first day of school, the police come into the classroom and arrest Cam's teacher for leaving the scene of an accident. But as always in Adler's lively, easy-to-read, chapter-book mysteries, Cam uses her photographic memory to find important clues and save the day. The twenty-second book in the popular series, this is one of the best, from the opening scene on the school bus stuck in traffic to Cam's clever discovery of a dry-cleaning ticket that leads her to the criminal. With the informal storytelling and the immediacy of the scenarios, this is sure to draw beginning readers to the pleasure of mystery stories with a protagonist close to home. Hazel Rochman
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About the Author
David Adler is the author of more than 150 children's books.

Susanna Natti also illustrates the Ronald Morgan books by Patricia Reilly Giff, as well as the Lionel series by Stephen Krensky.

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