Book review: Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

This book is a 2015 Colorado Children's Book Award nominee, and a terrific read! Oh, my younger bookworm-libraryloving-puzzlecrazed self would have LOVED this book! Lucky for me I get to read it now (and press it on every under 13 YO book/library lover I know). THE world famous game-maker Mr. Lemoncello is building an incredible new library in his hometown, which has been without a public library for 12 years. Mr. Lemoncello sponsors an essay contest -- the winners of which (12 lucky 12 year-olds who have lived their entire lives without a library) will have the opportunity to spend the night in the new library, and unbeknownst to them at the time of entry, participate in a game in which they must conduct library research, master challenges, and decipher clues to get them out of the library. Liberally sprinkled with book and author trivia, Dewey Decimal references, anagrams, rebuses, puzzles, holographic statues of famous authors, and the coolest library technology, well, anywhere, this book is a fast-paced hoot!