Cam Jansen The Mystery of the stolen diamonds

Title: Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds
Author: David A. Adler
Illustrator: Susanna Natti
Copyright Date: 1980

The book is about two friends Eric and Cam that are at the mall waiting for Eric's mother. As they are sitting on the bench watching Eric's brother they are playing a game of looking at people than closing their eyes and telling each other what that person is wearing.A man runs out of a jewlery store as the alarm goes off since cam has a very good photographic memory she takes a picture in her mind of the gentelmen running out of the store. She also observed who was coming out of the jewelry store. She noticed a couple with a baby and a large rattle as well as two elderly ladies as well as the store owner. Because everyone was shocked on what happened noone knew where to go. When the police arrived they interviewed everyone that saw the robbery happen. People also point to the way where the guy ran from the jewlery store. They finally found the older gentleman and bought him back to the store but he had no diamonds on him so they had to let him go. As he was leaving Cam noticed that he did not go to the middle of the mall as he tried to go when he ran out of the store so Eric and Cam decided to follow him. They stayed behind so it did not look like they were trying to follow him.as they were going down the street the man got to one corner stopped and looked back. He noticed Eric and Cam following him with the baby stroller since he got nervous he waited for them to pass by to make sure they were not following him. Cam sensed something and whispered to Eric to keep going straight past the buy until they notice that he is not watching them anymore. Once they passed the man he turned into a street that is blocked off by barricades because they were doing construction on it. Cam and Eric turned around and peeked aroound the corner to see which house he went into. As they watched Cam came up with the idea that they will crawl to see what he is up to. Once they get to the window they notice the man who they followed and .... You have to read the book to find out who else they saw with the man they followed.

It is a chapter book for second graders and up it is a little mystery and thriller. With this book the children will be able to make their own mystery storie and play them. They can also play the game clue. It is.a very fun book and they also offer pictures with the text to help visualize the story.