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Books in Sam: Dog Detective series

  • Mummy Lives!, The

    Mary Labatt

    Hardcover (Kids Can Press, April 1, 2002)
    Talk about the winter blahs. Sam: Dog Detective can't find a mystery anywhere. The sheepdog sleuth doesn't know how she's going to make it through another snowy season. But things begin to heat up when her friends, Jennie and Beth, visit a museum. There they see the mummy of a pharaoh who is said to walk the earth searching for his beloved missing dog. Now Sam -- who always feels she deserves the royal treatment -- has the mummy hot on her trail. Will she be able to elude this creepy corpse as he stalks Woodford looking for his shaggy white dog?
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  • Secret of Sagawa Lake, The

    Mary Labatt

    Hardcover (Kids Can Press, Aug. 1, 2001)
    Sam: Dog Detective discovers some surprising secrets while on vacation in this book for middle readers.
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  • The Ghost of Captain Briggs

    Mary Labatt

    Paperback (Kids Can Press, Sept. 1, 1999)
    Jennie Levinsky has an amazing secret -- and only her best friend, Beth, knows about it. Jennie can "hear" what her neighbor's sheepdog, Sam, is thinking! And what Sam is usually thinking is how to find fame and fortune as a world-famous detective. With Sam: Dog Detective as their fearless leader, the girls snoop their way into trouble, but quick thinking and swift action always lead them to safety. In The Ghost of Captain Briggs, Sam and Beth join Jennie's family on their summer vacation at an old mansion built by a fierce pirate. Sam's convinced that where there's a pirate, there must be a buried treasure and a ghost!
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  • A Weekend at the Grand Hotel

    Mary Labatt

    Paperback (Kids Can Press, Feb. 1, 2001)
    Join Sam: Dog Detective on her fifth funny adventure as she enjoys a little family holiday at the Grand Hotel. And what could be more exciting than the bustling lobby of a big hotel? Guests arrive, people meet --- and signals are exchanged. For Sam, this can mean only one thing: spies, and lots of them! Everyone seems awfully suspicious, what with envelopes being passed back and forth, people creeping out of guests' rooms and secretly using the back stairs. Something's definitely up, and Sam is sure to figure it out --- if only Jennie and Beth will help her.
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  • Ghost of Captain Briggs, The

    Mary Labatt

    Hardcover (Kids Can Press, Sept. 1, 1999)
    Jennie Levinsky has an amazing secret -- and only her best friend, Beth, knows about it. Jennie can "hear" what her neighbor's sheepdog, Sam, is thinking! And what Sam is usually thinking is how to find fame and fortune as a world-famous detective. With Sam: Dog Detective as their fearless leader, the girls snoop their way into trouble, but quick thinking and swift action always lead them to safety. In The Ghost of Captain Briggs, Sam and Beth join Jennie's family on their summer vacation at an old mansion built by a fierce pirate. Sam's convinced that where there's a pirate, there must be a buried treasure and a ghost!
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  • The Mummy Lives!

    Mary Labatt

    Paperback (Kids Can Press, April 1, 2002)
    Talk about the winter blahs. Sam: Dog Detective can't find a mystery anywhere. The sheepdog sleuth doesn't know how she's going to make it through another snowy season. But things begin to heat up when her friends, Jennie and Beth, visit a museum. There they see the mummy of a pharaoh who is said to walk the earth searching for his beloved missing dog. Now Sam -- who always feels she deserves the royal treatment -- has the mummy hot on her trail. Will she be able to elude this creepy corpse as he stalks Woodford looking for his shaggy white dog?
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  • Spying on Dracula

    Mary Labatt

    Paperback (Kids Can Press, Sept. 1, 1999)
    Sam: Dog Detective is convinced that the creepiest house in town must be the home of Dracula!
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  • Secret of Sagawa Lake, The

    Mary Labatt

    Paperback (Kids Can Press, Aug. 1, 2001)
    Sam: Dog Detective discovers some surprising secrets while on vacation in this book for middle readers.
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  • Aliens in Woodford

    Mary Labatt

    Hardcover (Kids Can Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Strange things are going on at Woodford's old abandoned airfield -- transport trucks rumbling through the gates in the middle of the night, unexplained lights bobbing up and down and security guards who seem to possess superhuman strength. Sam the sheepdog is certain an alien invasion is about to happen. Were those missing neighborhood pets beamed up into a UFO? Is Sam next? Can Jennie and her best friend, Beth, rescue Sam from a fate worse than eating dog food?
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  • One Terrible Halloween

    Mary Labatt

    Paperback (Kids Can Press, Aug. 1, 2002)
    Sam: Dog Detective is bored. There are no ghosts in her house, no monsters, no mysteries! Luckily, Halloween is only a week away; soon Woodford will be crawling with vampires, goblins, mutants and witches. And the sheepdog sleuth's excitement grows when she and her friends, Jennie and Beth, uncover a spooky legend. Once every hundred years on Halloween night, real live ghouls slink out of the woods searching for children to steal away! When Sam sees hooded, white-faced creatures piling out of a creepy black van, she knows the ghouls have arrived -- but will she be able to put a stop to their horrible Halloween plot?
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  • Spying on Dracula

    Mary Labatt

    Hardcover (Kids Can Press, Sept. 1, 1999)
    Sam: Dog Detective is convinced that the creepiest house in town must be the home of Dracula!
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  • One Terrible Halloween

    Mary Labatt

    Hardcover (Kids Can Press, Aug. 1, 2002)
    Sam: Dog Detective is bored. There are no ghosts in her house, no monsters, no mysteries! Luckily, Halloween is only a week away; soon Woodford will be crawling with vampires, goblins, mutants and witches. And the sheepdog sleuth's excitement grows when she and her friends, Jennie and Beth, uncover a spooky legend. Once every hundred years on Halloween night, real live ghouls slink out of the woods searching for children to steal away! When Sam sees hooded, white-faced creatures piling out of a creepy black van, she knows the ghouls have arrived -- but will she be able to put a stop to their horrible Halloween plot?
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