Saturday, November 26, 2011

Nate the Great Talks Turkey by: Majorie Weiman Sharmat and Mitchell Sharmat 2006 Youthful Sleuths

Nate is watching the news and realizes there is a turkey terrorizing the town! His neighbor, Claude comes by Nate's house and asks him to help him find this turkey. Claude was walking and eating popcorn. He dropped some popcorn and the turkey began following Claude to eat the popcorn. Claude wanted to be friends with the turkey. Nate did not want the case but his dog, Sludge, did. Claude and Sludge left to find the turkey.

Nate stayed home and enjoyed the quiet of not taking the case. He gets a call from his cousin Olivia Sharp. From the description she is a wealthy young lady (she has a driver, housekeeper, a private jet, and a limo to ride around in). She is a detective in San Francisco. She is bored and loves birds, so she decides to visit Nate and help with the case.

Claude gives Sludge a feather to get the scent of the turkey. They find a turkey but it is not the one on the news. It was some one's pet who got out of their fence. There are two turkeys loose! Olivia ends up catching the other turkey. She goes to the pet store and buys over a $1000 worth of turkey food!

The message of this book is cute. Olivia was concerned about the bird and his safety. They allowed Claude to believe he had found the missing bird. Claude was always losing things and the other characters wanted him to feel good about finding the missing bird!

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