Young Cam Jansen and the Ice Skate Mystery (Penguin Young Readers, L3) [Mass Market Paperback]

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

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000 | Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up | Series: Penguin Young Readers, L3 (Book 4)

Level Three

Cam is skating at the ice rink with her friend Eric. She has to use her photographic memory to help Eric find the locker key he loses while skating.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 2?In this easy-reader version of the Cam Jansen series, the young detective uses her photographic memory to help her friend Eric find the locker key he lost while ice skating. Both the vocabulary and complexity of the story are suitable for children a year or so younger than fans of the original series. The bright, full-color drawings that illustrate every page will have readers searching for details they may have missed. Before starting the story, willing participants are encouraged to test their own visual memory by trying a simple exercise. An adequate addition.?Lisa Smith, Lindenhurst Memorial Library, NY
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

Gr. 1^-2. A smart child detective with a photographic memory solves the mystery in this cheerful friendship story, the latest Young Cam Jansen title in the Viking Easy-to-Read series. This time the setting is the ice rink, where Cam's friend Eric loses the key to their locker. With a clever twist, Cam finds the key; and words and pictures draw the reader into looking closely at exactly what is happening. Hazel Rochman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141300124
• ISBN-13: 978-0141300122
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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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.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for Early Readers, October 17, 2001

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This review is from: Young Cam Jansen and the Ice Skate Mystery (Hardcover)

...We have most of the Young Cam Jansen paperbacks and recommend them unreservedly for other read-along parents, especially parents of young girls. Less-than-ideal personalities, personal conflicts and misunderstandings are all presented, WITH good resolutions, character modeling, and handling of sticky situations.

The main character is a self-confident, intelligent thinker and investigator, with a boy as her best friend. Not exactly typical, and not for ultraconservative parents who think that only boys should use their minds and have adventures.

One particularly nice aspect is that most of the stories take place outside of a public-school setting, recognizing that most discovery and meaningful social interactions take place outside of that institution -- a point not lost on homeschooling-minded parents. The one public-school setting (see the "Lost Tooth" mystery) is in the Art class, where creativity and fun are the dominant theme.

Get and read the Young Cam Jansen series!....

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good for transition, February 2, 2005

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This review is from: Young Cam Jansen and the Ice Skate Mystery (Penguin Young Readers, L3) (Mass Market Paperback)

I home school my son, he's a struggling reader. The Young Cam Jansen series has proven to be wonderful for the transition to books with smaller type face and more words per page. He's feeling successful and loves to help solve the mystery as he reads them.
The series has good pictures that relate well to the written text. And the text is well done in short sentences. There are some challenging words here and there, but my son is so engrossed is the story he tries his darndest to sound the word out. As they say nothing suceeds like success.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars my daughter loves Cam Jansen, January 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Young Cam Jansen and the Ice Skate Mystery (Hardcover)

While my daughter, age 3 1/2, is younger than the targeted readers of this series, she has loved Cam Jansen since she was 2. These stories are wonderfully written and illustrated and they encourage children to think. My daughter has red hair and brown eyes just like Cam, and now she wants to have long hair like Cam. I highly recommend all of the Cam Jansen books.