Beginning readers are introduced to the detective mystery genre in these chapter books. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries!
Nate the Great solves crimes with his dog, Sludge. But this time, Sludge can’t help. Sludge is lost! Nate looks high and low. But every clue leads to a dead end until . . . Nate realizes Sludgecan help after all!
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Another satisfying entry in aconsistently entertaining series. --Booklist
These simple chapter booksbuild confidence in childrenwho are just starting to read and who look forward to a new mystery. --Kirkus ReviewsPraise for the Nate the Great Series
★“Kids will like Nate the Great.”—School Library Journal,Starred Review
“A consistentlyentertainingseries.” —Booklist
“Loose,humorouschalk and watercolor spots help turn this beginning reader into apage-turner.” —Publishers Weekly
“Nate, Sludge, and all their friends have beendelighting beginning readers for years.” —Kirkus Reviews
“They don’t come any coolerthan Nate the Great.” —The Huffington PostMARJORIE WEINMAN SHARMAT has written more than 130 books for children and young adults, as well as movie and TV novelizations. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. The award-winning Nate the Great series, hailed in Booklist as “groundbreaking,” was inspired by her father, Nathan Weinman. As a child in Portland, Maine, her first job was counting boxes at the real-life Weinman Brothers, a wholesale and manufacturing bul36
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