Cam Jansen and the Graduation Day Mystery

Written by David A. Adler

Narrated by Christina Moore

Best-selling author David A. Adler has written more than 200 children's books-including the popular Cam Jansen series featuring a smart girl detective with a photographic memory. At long last, Eric Shelton's father is graduating from college. But before the celebration can begin, a gift for the graduate vanishes. It could have been lost-or it could have been stolen! Cam must use her special memory to learn the truth and locate the missing gift.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 24, 2012
• ISBN: 9781464038785

David A. Adler

DAVID ADLER has written more than a hundred books, including Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man and Mama Played Baseball. He lives on Long Island, New York. 

Reviews for Cam Jansen and the Graduation Day Mystery

[abigailadams26 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Fifth-grade sleuths Cam Jansen and Eric Shelton attend Eric's father's college graduation in this thirty-first entry in David A. Adler's beginning chapter-book series devoted to their mystery-solving adventures. When Grandpa's Shelton's bag goes missing after the graduation ceremony, together with the gift he had intended to give Mr. Shelton, Cam and Eric kick into gear, helping to figure out what has happened...Unlike almost all of the prior Cam Jansen books, Cam Jansen and the Graduation Day Mystery does not involve theft, but rather, a mistake that must be set right. As Cam tells Eric, this is an unusual mystery, in that they already know what happened - another attendee accidentally took Grandpa Shelton's bag, mistaking it for their own identical bag - but simply don't know how to track down the other involved party. It's also unusual, in that I think the matter would probably have resolved itself, even without Cam and Eric's participation. In any case, it was a fairly engaging entry in the series, and I really appreciated the fact that the story depicted an adult with a family graduating college, as this emphasizes non-traditional students. I also appreciated that both Mr. and Mrs. Shelton were army veterans, something never mentioned before in the series. Recommended to fans of the Cam Jansen books, and to beginning chapter-book readers who enjoy mystery stories.