Awarded the 1998 Edgar Award for Best Children's Mystery, Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief offers readers a chance to hone their predictive and deductive skills along with Sammy Keyes, who the Midwest Children's Book Review calls "the most winning junior detective ever in teen lit." Class members use a suspect worksheet to record evidence and factual information that they find in the tale to come up with a strong prediction.  Author Wendelin VAn Draanen provides a rich array of unusual suspects for the reader to consider.