• Age: 7 to 10
• Grade: 2 to 5
• Reading age: 7 to 10

Join Sam: Dog Detective on her fifth funny adventure as she enjoys a little family holiday at the Grand Hotel. And what could be more exciting than the bustling lobby of a big hotel? Guests arrive, people meet --- and signals are exchanged. For Sam, this can mean only one thing: spies, and lots of them! Everyone seems awfully suspicious, what with envelopes being passed back and forth, people creeping out of guests' rooms and secretly using the back stairs. Something's definitely up, and Sam is sure to figure it out --- if only Jennie and Beth will help her.

Mary Labatt is an editor and writer. She is the author of the Dog Detective Sam mystery series, the Sam and Friends graphic mystery novels, the Puppy Sam level one early readers and a novel called A Puppy is for Loving. With all these dog books you can guess what Mary does on her Clear Creek, Ontario farm. She breeds and raises Rough Collies and Welsh Springer Spaniels. In the picture you can see Mary with two of her collie mothers, Annabel and Chloe.

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