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  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780375845482
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $14.99

Nate the Great and the Hungry Book Club



The remaining titles in the long-running Nate the Great chapter book series are being reissued! Perfect for the Common Core and for introducing beginning readers to the detective mystery genre!

These chapter books introduce beginning readers to the detective mystery genre. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries! 

Rosamond has started a book club called Rosamond’ s Ready Readers. But she claims there’s an evil page monster on the loose. This monster has ripped and ruined a page of the cookbook Rosamond uses to make treats for the club.

Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, go to the next meeting of the book club . . . as undercover detectives. All the members are there. They are reading a book when one of Rosamond’s Ready Readers discovers that a page is missing. Has the evil page monster struck again?

Nate and Sludge know they have a real case. Their search for evidence takes them to Rosamond’s kitchen and to a school book sale where a librarian gives them important clues. Can the pancake-eating detective and his bonemunching partner solve their hungriest case yet?

  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780375845482
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $14.99

About the authors

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Born in Portland, Maine, in 1928, MARJORIE WEINMAN SHARMAT dreamed of becoming a writer. Little did she know that she would be the author of more than 70 books for children of all ages. Another of her childhood dreams, that of becoming a detective, has also been realized in her most popular NATE THE GREAT series, begun in 1972.
Many of Sharmat's books have been Literary Guild selections and chosen as Books of the Year by the Library of Congress. Several have been made into films for television, including NATE THE GREAT GOES UNDERCOVER, winner of the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival Award. NATE THE GREAT SAVES THE KING OF SWEDEN has been named one of the New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing.

Praise for Nate the Great and the Hungry Book Club

"Nate is still one of the coolest kids on the block. Written with panache, this mystery is a welcome addition to an ever-popular series."--Booklist.com

"Nate, Sludge, and all their friends have been delighting beginning readers for years."--Kirkus Reviews

"Kids will like Nate the Great."--SLJ, STARRED