Description
Beginning readers are introduced to the detective mystery genre in these chapter books. Highest for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, the usage of logical thinking to resolve mysteries!
Nate the Great hates mushy stuff. He spies a large red paper heart taped to Sludge’s doghouse. Who left Nate’s dog a secret valentine? Nate will solve the case, after which there might be no more mushy stuff. No less than that’s what he thinks. . . .
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“Nate makes a perfect narrator, his clipped prose mimicking that of the hard-boiled detective genre, providing short, simple sentences for beginning readers, and putting in place the deadpan humor. Simont’s expressive drawings, tinted with watercolor washes, illustrate the characters and the action with finesse and restraint. A most appealing choice.”—Booklist, Boxed Review