Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse

"Edgar-winning Vaught, a neuropsychologist, has both personal and professional experience to draw on in crafting a narrator...
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Author: Susan Vaught
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Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse by Vaught, Susan

Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse

$47.53

Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse

$47.53
Author: Susan Vaught
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
"Edgar-winning Vaught, a neuropsychologist, has both personal and professional experience to draw on in crafting a narrator who is admirably smart and resilient despite an 'itchy' brain and a compulsion to count things." --Booklist (starred review)
"Deeply smart and considerate." --BCCB
"An absorbing mystery." --Kirkus Reviews
"A strong addition to help diversify realistic fiction collections to include neuroatypical characters and heroines." --School Library Journal

In this Edgar Award-winning novel by mystery superstar Susan Vaught, Jesse is on the case when money goes missing from the library and her dad is looking like the #1 suspect.

I could see the big inside of my Sam-Sam. I had been training him for 252 days with mini tennis balls and pieces of bacon, just to prove to Dad and Mom and Aunt Gus and the whole world that a tiny, fluffy dog could do big things if he wanted to. I think my little dog always knew he could be a hero.

I just wonder if he knew about me.

When the cops show up at Jesse's house and arrest her dad, she figures out in a hurry that he's the #1 suspect in the missing library fund money case. With the help of her (first and only) friend Springer, she rounds up suspects (leading to a nasty confrontation with three notorious school bullies) and asks a lot of questions. But she can't shake the feeling that she isn't exactly cut out for being a crime-solving hero. Jesse has a neuro-processing disorder, which means that she's "on the spectrum or whatever." As she explains it, "I get stuck on lots of stuff, like words and phrases and numbers and smells and pictures and song lines and what time stuff is supposed to happen." But when a tornado strikes her small town, Jesse is given the opportunity to show what she's really made of--and help her dad.

Told with the true-as-life voice Susan Vaught is known for, this mystery will have you rooting for Jesse and her trusty Pomeranian, Sam-Sam.

Author: Susan Vaught
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Published: 05/14/2019
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781534425019
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.8
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 503431 / Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse


Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/08/2019
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2019
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2019
School Library Journal 04/01/2019 pg. 76
Booklist 04/01/2019 pg. 72

About the Author
Susan Vaught is the two-time Edgar Award­-winning author of Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy and Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse. Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry received three starred reviews, and Super Max and the Mystery of Thornwood's Revenge was called "an excellent addition to middle grade shelves" by School Library Journal. Her debut picture book, Together We Grow, received four starred reviews and was called a "picture book worth owning and cherishing" by Kirkus Reviews. She works as a neuropsychologist at a state psychiatric facility and lives on a farm with her wife and son in rural western Kentucky. Learn more at SusanVaught.com.

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