Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Nate, the great detective, and his dog, Sludge, are off to San Francisco They're going to visit Nate's cousin Olivia Sharp. She's a detective too, and a very busy one. So busy she sends her chauffeur and limo to greet Nate and Sludge at the airport.Olivia isn't around to solve her case number 22. Her client, Duncan, has lost his joke book. He tells Nate that if the book isn't found -- and soon -- the world will come to an end. Nate takes the case. He and Sludge cruise up and down and around San Francisco in the limo, tracking down clues. Sticky, icky clues, big and small clues, all-around-the-town clues that take them to a pancake house, over the Golden Gate Bridge, and finally to a place that seems wrong but could be right.Can Nate the Great keep the world from coming to an end? Can he solve his first out-of-town case?

MARJORIE WEINMAN SHARMAT has written over 130 books for children and young adults, as well as screenplays and novelizations for movies and television shows. Her books have been published in twenty-four different languages. Nate's real-life appearances in several New York Times crossword puzzles, sporting a milk mustache in magazines and posters, residing on more than 28 million boxes of Cheerios, and touring the country in musical theater have all come from the award-winning Nate the Great series, which was hailed as innovative by Booklist. Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and her husband, Mitchell Sharmat, have also coauthored a number of books, including Nate the Great and Olivia Sharp series volumes. MARC SIMONT received the Caldecott Medal and a Caldecott Honor for his artwork in Janice May Udry's A Tree Is Lovely, as well as a Caldecott Honor for his own book, The Stray Puppy. The first twenty books in the Nate the Great series were illustrated by him.

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ISBN 13	9780440418214
ISBN 10	0440418216
Title	Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective
Author	Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Series	Nate The Great
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2002-10-08
Number of pages	80
Prizes	Winner of New Jersey Garden State Children's Book Award 2004
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.