Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Gold Coins #5 [Paperback]

David A. Adler (Author), Susanna Natti (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Series: Cam Jansen

Cam's box camera disappears from the science fair, and valuable gold coins are missing from a coin shop. Can Cam's mental camera help catch the thief?

Editorial Reviews

Review

"What wrongdoer is any match for Cam Jansen, the girl with the amazing photographic memory?" ( Booklist) "An uncluttered plot, a clever heroine, clear language, and a dash of humor make for a zestful mystery."(School Library Journal) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Puffin (March 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140389547
• ISBN-13: 978-0140389548
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,857,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I write both fiction and non-fiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later. Of course, since I'll be spending a lot of time with each main character, why not have him or her be someone I like? Andy Russell is based, loosely, on a beloved member of my family. He's fun to write about and the boy who inspired the character is even more fun to know. Cam Jansen is based even more loosely on a classmate of mine in the first grade whom we all envied because we thought he had a photographic memory. Now, especially when my children remind me of some promise they said I made, I really envy Cam's amazing memory. I have really enjoyed writing about Cam Jansen and her many adventures. For my books of non-fiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. My first biography was Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir. To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedia. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there. I've written many other biographies, including books about Martin Luther King, Jr; George Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Helen Keller; Harriet Tubman; Anne Frank; and many others in my Picture Book Biography series. I've been a Yankee and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades so I wrote Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man. It's more the story of his great courage than his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig. I am working now on another book about a courageous man, Janusz Korczak. My book One Yellow Daffodil is fiction, too, but it's based on scores of interviews I did with Holocaust survivors for my books We Remember the Holocaust, Child of the Warsaw Ghetto, The Number on My Grandfather's Arm, and Hiding from the Nazis. The stories I heard were compelling. One Yellow Daffodil is both a look to the past and to the future, and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children. I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books including Fraction Fun, Calculator Riddles, and Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons. In my office I have this sign, "Don't Think. Just Write!" and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, even each sentence or paragraph. For me stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times. And I work with my editors. I look forward to their suggestions, their help in the almost endless rewrite process. Well, it's time to get back to dreaming, and to writing, my dream of a job. David A. Adler is the author of more than 175 children's books, including the Young Cam Jansen series. He lives in Woodmere, New York.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars another great Cam Jansen book, June 11, 2002

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Melissa Sack (georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Gold Coins #5 (Paperback)

We love David Adler's books. We plan to read all of them that we can. My seven year old loves this Cam Jansen Series. Lots of adventure! These books are great for boys and girls!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cam Jansen & the Mystery of Gold Coins (Cam Jansen), August 25, 2008

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This review is from: Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Gold Coins #5 (Paperback)

My second grade granddaughter could not put this book down and go to bed the day I gave her this book. She really enjoyed it and all of the others in the series.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another One Of Davis A. Aldler's Great Mysteries, March 22, 2001

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Gold Coins #5 (Paperback)

I have read some of his books but I actually stumbled on one of his best books! I really was a serios fan of his books until now. now this is what the books about:Cam's box camera vanishs from the science fair,and valuble gold coins are disapeared from a coin shop.Cam's sure that the vanishing acts are simliar to it. Please read this great book or one of his other best work:)