Escape from MR (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)

by Chris Grabenstein

Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero, the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello, with other students but finds he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape.

Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape.

• ISBN10: 1299667775
• ISBN13: 9781299667778
• Publish Date: 1 January 2013
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 3 June 2015
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 245
• Language: English

Reviews

[readingwithwrin]

"Like you said, this is just a Move Back Three Spaces card. A Take a Walk on the Boardwalk when someone else owns it. It's a chute in Chutes and Ladders.
A detour to the Molasses Swamp in Candy Land!"

I really did enjoy this book, but I do wonder if a middle grader will feel the same.

I loved how Grabenstein made libraries sound like such a magical place.
"Using a library can make learning about anything (and everything) fun," he wrote. "When you're in a library, researching a topic, you're on a scavenger
hunt, looking for clues and prizes in books instead of your attic or backyard."
I would love for there to be a library like this. I mean who wouldn't want a mannequin to be able to tell you your family history, or to see a lion walking through the animals' section. This is the stuff of every kid's dream, plus there were even technology references and some social media references as well (but I really didn't see the point of them, as I don't feel like 12 year old's should have a Twitter/Facebook).

While I see a lot of other people didn't really like the ending. I found it to be a good one, and it had been leaning towards that from the middle.


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