Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective

Nate the Great Series

Author: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Author: Mitchell Sharmat

Illustrator: Martha Weston

Book 22 in the Nate the Great series

Pages: 80

Published: 2000

Age: 6+

Nate, the great detective, and his dog, Sludge, are off to San Francisco!

They're going to visit Nate's cousin Olivia Sharp. She's a detective, too, and a very busy one. Olivia isn't around to solve her case number 22. Her client, Duncan, has lost his joke book. He tells Nate that if the book isn't found—and soon—the world will come to an end.

Nate takes the case. He and Sludge cruise up and down and around San Francisco in the limo, tracking down clues. Sticky, icky clues, big and small clues, all-around-the-town clues that take them to a pancake house, over the Golden Gate Bridge, and finally to a place that seems wrong but could be right.

Can Nate the Great keep the world from coming to an end? Can he solve his first out-of-town case?

About the Nate the Great Series

Reading age: 6+ years

Join the world’s greatest detective, Nate the Great!

Perfect for beginning readers and the Common Core, this long-running chapter book series will encourage children to problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries!

With each book, Nate the Great has a new case. Nate the Great must get all the facts, and ask the right questions to solve the mystery.

A Teacher's Pick series that consistently wins high praise for delighting and entertaining young readers, and for its charming illustrations.