Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth (Penguin Young Readers, L3) [Paperback]

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

Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: Young Cam Jansen

Cam Jansen's photographic memory is put to the test when Annie's tooth falls out— and disappears! Cam has a picture in her head of everything she sees. But does she have the picture she needs to solve the mystery of the lost tooth?

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 2. The "Young Cam Jansen" mysteries introduce beginning readers to Adler's popular female detective. With her photographic memory, Cam helps Annie find her lost tooth in the school art room. This fast-paced story with numerous full-color cartoon illustrations will appeal to primary-grade students and will serve as a springboard to the popular "Cam Jansen" books that are on a more challenging reading level.?Gale W. Sherman, Pocatello Public Library, ID
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Booklist

Gr. 1^-2. In the latest Cam Jansen chapter-book mystery in the Viking Easy-to-Read series, Cam uses her photographic memory to find Annie's lost tooth. New readers will like the grade-school detective story, and Natti's cheerful line-and-watercolor illustrations help set the scene in art class, quiet reading time, and the rush for the school bus. Hazel Rochman --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141302739
• ISBN-13: 978-0141302737
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #17 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Authors & Illustrators, A-Z > ( A ) > Adler, David A.

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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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth, June 11, 2000

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Debbie Rountree - See all my reviews

This review is from: Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth (Penguin Young Readers, L3) (Paperback)

My 7-year-old daughter and I read this book together. She loved it! Cam - short for Camera, because of her photographic memory - helps her friends solve mysteries. In this case it was a lost tooth. This book has 5 easy-to-read chapters. The story moves along nicely from chapter to chapter, and my daughter did not want to stop until we had read the whole book. She was able to follow the story line as we read and could anticipate what was going to happen. Words were sometimes challenging but overall, an easy read. We will definitely look for more Cam Jansen books to read!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Young Cam Jansen Rocks!, October 17, 2001

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This review is from: Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth (Penguin Young Readers, L3) (Paperback)

My 3-year old loves the pictures and the story line, and knows just when to say "Click!" along with Cam.

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 girl 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.

This particular story is set in the Art class, where creativity and fun are the dominant theme, not the lesser aspects of the typical public school experience.

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

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Series, September 1, 2007

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This review is from: Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth (Penguin Young Readers, L3) (Paperback)

Young Cam Jansen is a great series for young kids learning to read. Very fun with creative content anyone can appreciate. No worries about questionable content for your young reader. My kindergartener loves them.