• Escape From Mr. Lemoncello S Library

Parents need to know that even readers as reluctant as protagonist Kyle will see libraries in a new light as they follow his adventures in Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library by, co-author with of. Solving riddles, working out puzzles, and navigating the Dewey Decimal System all play a role in this fun tale, not to mention homages to everything from and to reality TV, and dozens of book references designed to delight kids who already know them and entice those who don't. Mean kids get their comeuppance; friendship, ingenuity, and teamwork are big here, as are Kyle's gaming skills. Occasional brief mentions of a video game involving crashes as well as flying - and sometimes flaming - squirrels that bite their victims on the butt.

If it's a game, 12-year-old Kyle Keeley loves it. Books, not so much. But when he learns that his hero, eccentric-genius game developer Luigi Lemoncello, has funded an over-the-top, media-rich, interactive library for their hometown, he's thrilled to be one of a dozen kids invited to the grand opening. Things get even more interesting as the party winds down and Mr. Limoncello announces a contest: The kids are locked in, and have to come up with an ESCAPE FROM MR.

LEMONCELLO'S LIBRARY. An awesome prize hangs in the balance. The library itself has many clues.

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library Summary & Study Guide includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis, quotes, character descriptions, themes, and more. Can twelve 12-year-olds escape from the most ridiculously brilliant library ever created? Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library plunks a dozen sixth-graders into the.

Publication date June 25, 2013 Media type Print Pages 288 Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library is a children's novel by author. It was on the New York Times bestseller list for Middle Grade novels for 111 weeks between 2013 and 2016, peaking at #8 in hardback and #2 in paperback.

Grabenstein has stated that the book contains a secret puzzle that readers can decode. To solve it, he offers some advice given by Mr. Lemoncello in the book: 'Forget the Industrial Revolution, my first idea might be your best solution.' This section needs expansion.

You can help. (October 2017) 12-year-old Kyle Keeley is obsessed with the board games of Mr. Lemoncello, the world's most renowned game maker. Big news comes to his town when it is revealed that Mr. Lemoncello is building a state-of-the-art public library, and he is holding an essay contest to let winners spend one night in a lock-in before the library's opening. But Kyle's knowledge of games and his friends' knowledge of books and libraries are put to the test when they have to play the biggest game yet; having to escape from the library using only their wits and the clues scattered around the library's different sections.

Kyle Keeley is also a very sharing person in this book. Awards Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library was a bestseller for Children's Middle Grade and received positive reviews. Giving it a starred review, praised the book as a 'solid, tightly plotted read' full of puzzles and puns.

Called it 'that perfect book that isn’t girly or boyish, but is just a good book for any middle-grade reader.' Reviewers (including author, a frequent collaborator of Grabenstein's) also compared the book favorably to 's. The novel was also the 2013 winner of the for Best Children's/Young Adult Novel. This was the fourth time that Grabenstein won this award, the first for his novel. The New York Times. August 11, 2013.

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