Nate the Great has his first night casel Somebody is raidingOliver's garbage can each night, but who? The'list of sus-pects is long--Rosamond and Esmeralda, the girls down thestreet; Rosamond s cats; and all the shrews, moles, skunks,birds, and raccoons in the neighborhood. Nate courageous-ly encounters a skunk (nose first) and a telephone pole (headon), but not until he goes under cover of the garbage-can liddoes he narrow the suspects down to one.

"First graders' favorite private eye solves the case of Oliver'sscattered garbage in those short, easy sentences that Sharmattransforms into crisp, tough-guy humor.

     --A Kirkus Choice Book of the Year, Kirkus Reviews

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