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?
Many of Sharmat's books have been Literary Guild selections and chosen as Books of the Year by the Library of Congress. Several have been made into films for television, including Nate the Great Goes Undercover, winner of the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival Award. Nate the Great Saves the King of Sweden has been named one of the New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing.
★ "Kids will like Nate the Great." --School Library Journal, Starred Review
"A consistently entertaining series." --Booklist
"Loose, humorous chalk and watercolor spots help turn this beginning reader into a page-turner." --Publishers Weekly
"Nate, Sludge, and all their friends have been delighting beginning readers for years." --Kirkus Reviews
"They don't come any cooler than Nate the Great." --The Huffington Post