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Both my husband and I read Cam Jansen as kids, so it's fun to know that there's still more for us to read now with our kids. May 04, Toryn rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: I wish I could have a Photographic Memory. Oct 10, Sadie Vore rated it really liked it. Cam Jansen is the perfect girl to have when you are trying to solve a mystery.

I would recommend this book for second, third, and fourth grade. It might be a little too difficult for some second graders and it may be too simple for some fourth graders. The parents and teachers can be the determining factor in that situation whether the book is too hard or too easy. It depends on the student. There was no content concerns that stuck out to me while I was reading this book.

This is a great book to Cam Jansen is the perfect girl to have when you are trying to solve a mystery.

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This is a great book to start kids on mystery books. It is an easy, fun read. The illustrations were at the perfect time so the reader could visualize the characters while the book was introducing them. To sum up the story, Jennifer "Cam" Jansen has a perfect photographic memory which helps her and others in many situations.

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Jul 25, Rae B. I am thirty-something who read a throwback to my childhood, so my rating is completely based on my reading level now. I thought it was an adorably basic plotline. I wish for more on why our mystery writer stopped after his first couple tries at solving the mystery even though he was a former detective. I wish for more backstory on the "bad guy," but I appreciated that he apologized once he was caught and I had forgotten how nice it is when a story ends simply and happily. Those were the days!

Nov 14, Kristen rated it liked it Shelves: Blake brought this home for homework. He had to read a chapter a night and write about what happens in each chapter. It was at his reading level 1st grade and he seemed to enjoy it. Although I don't know how well a developing reader in 1st grade can enjoy mystery. I didn't want to bash my head against the table listening to him read it to me each night cough Junie B Jones cough which in my book is a plus. Mar 22, Janel rated it it was ok. Cam Jansen's name and gimick is genius, but everything else about this book is incredibly boring and bland.

There was hardly anything mysterious or interesting to notice in this book. This makes it a great beginning mystery book for my group of struggling third-grade readers, I suppose, but bores me to my core.

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Mar 13, Sarah Maddaford rated it it was ok Shelves: This book might have been better if I had read it as a child. I was somewhat annoyed by the 'click' thing, but it is a pretty good story mechanic.

The mystery was too simple and very easy to solve. I also hated the mystery writer even though none of the characters seemed to mind him too much. May 01, Kaethe rated it it was ok Shelves: I do not like Cam Jansen. I'm okay with the photographic memory and the "Click", but everything else about the book annoyed me. Not least of which was trying to read the name "Jim E. May 20, Melissa Namba rated it liked it Shelves: I don't love the "adults are stupid and assume stupid things"aspect of these books. We enjoy reading the Cam Jansen mysteries together and our girls like to take the memory challenge at the end of the stories too.

This is a good rainy day story and an interesting mystery.

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Cute book and my 2nd grader is loving it! Jun 13, Rhea rated it it was ok Shelves: Is Eric the only character that's self aware? Bless him for stink eye-ing that author and knowing Cam's true worth.

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He graduated from Queens College in with a bachelor's degree in economics and education. For the next nine years, he worked as a mathematics teacher for the New York City Board of Education, while taking classes towards a master's degree in marketing, a degree he was awarded by New York University in In that same year, a question from his then-three-year-old nephew inspired Adler to write his first story, A Little at a Time, subsequently published by Random House in Only one of them survives.

Near to Goonzoyle is another estate, owned by the Polhearnes. The two daughters, Lucia and Rosina, have their different ways of dealing with their father, the colonel, who does local good works while being the worst kind of tyrant at home - but the extent of his depravity is not revealed until the end of the book.

Rosina escapes from the claustrophobia at home by befriending Delia, the daughter of a Czech widower who, together with his second wife Sheila, is staying at a nearby caravan site. A visit from an eligible young neighbour catalyses events that change everything for these characters, reverberating down the years in ripples of disaster.

By a strange coincidence, she witnesses the suicide of a desperate woman suffering from postnatal depression, who throws herself into the sea. Later, she discovers that the main witness to the tragedy is none other than the surviving boy, by now a famous but reclusive artist. As the book unfolds, more and more layers of the lives of the principal characters are uncovered. Connie, the sister of Ted Johns who is merely referred to in the war chapters, becomes a particularly vivid creation.

My favourite is Rosina, but there are plenty of mysteries, in the story of Delia and her daughter Grace; the mysterious suicide and her true identity; the marriage of Rosina's sister, the heiress Lucia; a visiting American academic who has done perhaps more research than required for comfort; the young hippie Spike and his relationship with Connie; and more. As well as the plot elements, the author interjects many subtle but telling observations of class structure, the art collection scene and the modern world of email and blogging.