Nate the Great Goes Undercover

小偵探‧大發現─只要有懸案的地方，就有Nate the Great！這是Nate第一次接到的深夜案件!他解釋說：『偵探工作既不有趣也不是兒戲。這是一份關於髒亂的垃圾桶、香蕉皮、抹布、牛奶盒、掃帚、雪茄煙灰與跳蚤等的苦差事。』而這次的案件非常棘手，有人每天晚上都來翻Oliver家的垃圾桶，到底是誰?嫌犯的名單多到數不清，住在巷子底的女孩與鄰居的寵物都是嫌疑犯，只有一個方法可以找出真正的犯人……

Beginning readers are introduced to the detective mystery genre in these chapter books. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries

Somebody has been raiding Oliver''s garbage can each night. How can Nate narrow the long list of suspects down to one? Nate the Great might just have to go under cover . . . under cover of the garbage can lid, that is

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*"Marc Simont''s charcoal and pastel illustrations provide the perfect backdrop for this clever case." --School Library Journal, Starred

"First graders'' favorite private eye solves the case of Oliver''s scattered garbage in those short, easy sentences that Sharmat transforms into crisp, tough-guy humor." --Kirkus Reviews (A Kirkus Reviews Editor''s Choice)

MARJORIE WEINMAN SHARMAT has written more than 130 books for children and young adults, as well as movie and TV novelizations. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. The award-winning Nate the Great series, hailed in Booklist as ＂groundbreaking,＂ has resulted in Nate’s real-world appearances in many New York Times crossword puzzles, sporting a milk mustache in magazines and posters, residing on more than 28 million boxes of Cheerios, and touring the country in musical theater. Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and her husband, Mitchell Sharmat, have also coauthored many books, including titles in both the Nate the Great and the Olivia Sharp series.

MARC SIMONT won the Caldecott Medal for his artwork in A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Uldry, as well as a Caldecott Honor for his own book, The Stray Dog. He illustrated the first twenty books in the Nate the Great series.