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annalovesbooks (USA: IL) (2008/08/03):
ISBN 0439133866 – Cam Jansen books came to me from a young friend who thought that, since I like The Boxcar Children, The Bobbsey Twins and others, I really ought to read them. That there’s a kid running around telling people to read these books, all by itself, earned Cam some points in my eyes. Cam, Eric and Aunt Molly are in line to buy concert tickets when a person in a ghost costume begins scaring people in line. When the ghost frightens an old man, seeming to cause the man a heart attack, Cam is there, recording it all with her photographic memory. A good thing she is, too, because while the crowd is paying attention to the old man, the ticket booth is robbed! Can Cam solve the crime and still manage to get tickets? The random-ness of things people say, particularly adults, is amusing. When a guard calls for a doctor and several people respond by telling him what they do for a living (none of them are doctors), no kid can resist the chance to laugh at adults. Eric’s insistence that he and Cam go to the police, rather than try to track down the criminals alone, is a good touch. Usually, kid detectives go unhindered into situations that ought to get them killed, only to solve the crime and survive to do it again. Susanna Natti’s illustrations are nice, but nothing spectacular. I’ll definitely be looking for more Cam! - AnnaLovesBooks, 2008
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