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Bailey, Linda.
WHAT'S A SERIOUS DETECTIVE LIKE ME DOING IN SUCH A SILLY MOVIE?
Toronto : Kids Can Press, 2002.
IL 3-6, RL 5,1
ISBN 1550749269
Stevie and Jesse are hired as extras in the movie "Night of the Neems."  Doesn't that sound like fun?  But things are not turning out the way the girls thought it would.  Although Jesse is cast as an orphan, Stevie is covered in blue scales and a faucet like nose to become one of the neems.  A series of mishaps convince the cast and crew that the movie is jinxed.  Now it's up to Stevie and Jesse to find out what is really going on.
SUBJECTS:     Diamond, Stevie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
                        Vancouver (B.C.) -- Fiction.
                        Mystery and detective stories.

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