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Define the genre & compare this novel with another mystery book you have read.

Major Themes

  • First major theme in Sammy Keyes and The Hotel Thief is:

"Its always best to tell the truth."

  • The genre in Sammy Keys and the Hotel Thief is mystery which is compared the other novel I read name “Fahrenheit 451”. Both these books play a big part in being mystery. Fahrenheit 451 is an entire novel about the future and the banning (and burning) of books. It was banned, ironically, because one of the books that eventually gets banned and burned is the Bible.

(This theme is explicit because, Sammy often lies to her grandmother about where she is going and what she’s doing.)

  • Second major theme:

"Do what you think is the right thing to do."

Stereotypes

Effective Use of Sound

(This theme is explicit because, Sammy was determined to find out who the robber was. She did whatever it took for her to solve the case.)

  • Popularity = Bad Character

Trailer

  • For example; In “Fahrenheit 451” a guy name Montag who is a fireman was known for lighting things on fire(books) until one day he got caught with some illegal books, and got into trouble with his boss, which was told by his own firefighter friends. After finding out that Montag was into some deep trouble he then tries to ran away, and was later on known as one of the most wanted man alive. Which lead back to the mystery of Sammy and the Hotel Thief when she saw the thief looking at her and couldn’t do nothing about it at the moment, even though she knew she was in big trouble.
  • Onomateopia:

Heather was your stereotypical mean girl. In school its predicted that the most popular girl is mean, bossing others around, making them self seem superior...

About the AUTHOR & Sammy Keyes

Symbols

What Might a Young Reader Enjoy?

Sammy's Binoculars

• They would enjoy the fact that Sammy Keys mysteries was interesting and it keeps you guessing to the next page.

  • The mystery has a few twists and isn't easily solvable, which will keep readers interested. Sammy is in middle school and middle-grade readers are the target audience, but I do think older readers would enjoy this book.

Age level

Grade: 6-8

Interest level : 5-9

  • Girls Should Be Girly Girls
  • There's more than just mystery in the story. Sammy has to deal with a school bully which she learns how to stick up for herself. She also was living (illegally) with her grandmother since her mother left to become an actress and Sammy has to sneak through the apartment complex.

• They can relate to the fact that most children at that age group does not obey their elders and listen to what they are told to do, but differently from that I think that this book was fast paced and funny packed with suspects and clever clues to it.

  • Wendelin Van Draanen is an an award winning author.

"He hmmmm's and Uh's...

"Ooh Gina-you got a fan"

"Ah-ha"

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As a girl you are automatically thought to act as such but Sammy was far from that she was a tom boy, that enjoyed being in trouble, punching people, & etc...

Purse

  • She taught computer programming in Central California before she retired to become a full time writer. As a writer her adult books were continuously rejected, so she took a different approach such as children’s literature.
  • Older People Are Wise

How does this novel meets good mystery?

(Paints a vocal illustration, in order for reader to picture the conversation,characters emotions, and moments in the story)

Ice Cream

  • Her first book was, How I Survived Being a Girl. This was in the voice of a 12 year old girl. After this book did well, she began the Sammy Keyes series. Her writing is known to be written with realistic dialogue, fascinating plots, and a sense of humor through her characters

Grams is constantly worried about Sammy throughout the story, providing her with suggestive insight...

  • As we all know mysteries is anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown.

Language & Syntax

  • Consonance
  • Heather

Obnoxious/ Arrogant Tone

"Suspended?"

  • Sammy Keyes came about by her thinking of what books she would read as a child. She also wanted the character to relate to the children she taught during her teaching and other children as well.

  • The good mysteries about this book is that the author takes the time to stretch the story so that the readers can understand every little detail of the main character (Sammy) and what she was doing.
  • "Like I wanted to be associated with nerds who do that"
  • Sammy

Sarcastic Tone

  • It also included suspense, clues, suspects, and someone who solves the case (Sammy).

Word play builds on character development, choice diction creates moments that make the intended character of the character evident.

Form of a question...a pause in the text

(Allows reader to read the text in a manner that enacts feeling and recognize change in word context)

  • "Right. Ill probably get grounded or shipped off to live with my mother. Real cool, Marissa."
  • The reader is also challenged to solve the puzzle before the detective explains it at the end.

Clues

Mr. Hudson's dog

  • Repetition:
  • "Well, I'd rather be at the doctors than stuck inside that stupid box for an hour!"
  • Mrs. Graybill symbolizes that noisy neighbor or family friend
  • Grams

Concerned/WiseTone

"Chinga-chinga-chinga"

  • Sammy sybolizes the typical mischeivous / curious child

What Makes It a Mystery?

  • "Samantha Keyes, you mark my words those things, those things are going to get you in a big heap of trouble"

The clues that lead to solving the mystery.

  • Like when she asked her best friend for some money to make a trap for the thief.

  • When she places the money on the ground so that he would act like he’s tying his shoe lace and bend over to take up the money.

  • Tracks on the ground were too parallel to the bike.

  • There was a Double Dynamo napkin

  • Oscar was wiping his glasses

(Adds sound effects to mske the reader feel as if they are experiencing the narrated story)

  • Grams symbolizes that worried/nagging grandparent that alot of us have
  • A crime took place that needs to be solved

  • It included a detective/ investigator (Sammy)

  • Has aspects of deceit

  • Includes a cover up

  • There's a discovery and elimination of suspects

  • Evaluation of clues

  • Identification of Thief

Works Cited

Draanen., Wendelin Van.

Sammy Keyes and The Hotel

Thief, Random House 1997

https://sites.google.com/site/samkthief/literary-devices

What Have You Learned?

https://www.writerswrite.com/journal/dec01/a-conversation-with-wendelin-van-draanen-12012

http://sammykeyesresource.wikia.com/wiki/Sammy_Keyes

https://study.com/academy/lesson/mystery-genre-definition-characteristics-elements.html

Structure

Moral development

Test Your Knowledge!

  • In the beginning nobody believed Sammy when she told the truth or when she was innocent.

Setting

  • She told a couple white lies because she didn’t trust the police and she didn’t want her grandmother to worry
  • This book began in modern day time in an urban Californian city

  • She didn’t let that stop her from finding who the robber was to protect her and her grandmother.
  • When she solved the crime, she came clean to her grandmother about everything
  • Progressed to a responsible girl who saw the importance in protecting the one she loved and truth vs. the mischevious, always in trouble, liar she was depicted as.

POV

Figurative Language

  • First Person (Told by Sammy)

Characters

Protagonist

  • Personification:

Plot Summary

"My brains racing...my stomach upside down and my knees are feeling kind of wobbly"

  • Sammy secretly lives with her grandmother in a ‘seniors only’ apartment complex. She’s not allowed to make much noise, so she passes the time spying on her neighbors with binoculars.
  • Simile:

Conflict:

The main characters are:

Sammy Keyes - main character, girl who found out who the hotel thief was

Grams - Sammy's grandmother

Marissa - Sammy's best friend

Heather Acosta - mean girl that Sammy punched in the nose

Oscar - Ice Cream Salesman, (!SPOILER ALERT!) hotel thief

Gina - woman whose money was stolen by Oscar (hotel thief)

Officer Borsch - an officer who helped out in the case

Hudson - gave Sammy clues and help finding the hotel thief

Mikey - Marissa's brother

"He seemed pretty upset - like he had lost a bunch of money."

"He was as sneaky as a cat."

  • Sammy Keyes : Sammy's real name is Samantha, but she likes Sammy better. Sammy has brown hair that goes down to her shoulders and brown eyes. Sammy always wears her high tops. Sammy used to live with her mother until she was ten or until her mother thought that life was more important than Sammy . After that her mother dropped her off at her grandmother's house . And since then, Sammy has lived with her grandma. Sammy calls her mother Lady Lana.

Person vs. Person

  • One morning she is looking into the windows of the hotel across the street, when she spots a thief burgling one of the rooms. Instead of calling the police, Sammy watches until the thief catches her staring. They both stare at each other until Sammy breaks the spell by waving at him.
  • Alliteration:

Climax

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"Rockin' Rick"

"Delightful Double Dynamo"

Sammy finds out who the hotel thief is by leaving money on the ground (which he picked up proving he is not blind) and is chased by him! She traps him in a dumpster.

  • Hyberbole:

Falling Action

Rising Action

  • Sammy goes to interview Gia (the woman who had her money stolen).

Resolution

  • While Sammy is at the Heavenly Hotel, she notices there is a napkin rolled up in the fire escape door put there so that it wouldn't shut.

"Mrs. Graybill lives down the hall and has to be the nosiest person to ever live."

  • the police came to the rescue and take Oscar to the Police Station
  • Sammy is accused of being the hotel thief by Officer Borsch because Mrs. Graybill claimed Sammy stuck a suspicious note under her door.
  • Sammy explains how everything happened to Grams

The police interrogate and arrest Oscar. The conflict has been successfully solved!

  • Later, a threatening note is slipped under their neighbor’s door. Sammy realizes that unless she helps the police figure out who the thief is, she and her grandmother will be in danger. The only problem is that the police don’t want her help. However, Sammy won’t let that deter her.
  • Sammy spots Oscar (the "blind" ice cream salesman) buffing his glasses on the roof of the mall through her binoculars.
  • Grams :Grams lives in the Senior Highrise with Sammy. She wears glasses and has short gray hair.
  • Sammy begins to suspect that Oscar is the hotel thief.

Exposition

This book began in modern day time in an urban Californian city. Sammy Keyes' mother has left for a "vacation" over the summer so Sammy is living with her grandmother, Grams. Sammy is beginning to adjust to the change and her best friend is named Marissa.

  • Their neighbor is Mrs. Graybill. Mrs. Graybill is always looking for a way to bail out Sammy for sneaking into Gram's house to live.
  • Sammy finally figures out that the thief is the ‘blind’ ice cream vendor and she sets a trap for him. She manages to catch him, at great risk to herself.

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen

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