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Summary
Summary
#1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Grabenstein is back with the third fantastically fun, puzzle-packed MR. LEMONCELLO adventure!
On your marks. Get set. Lemon, cello, GO!
Everyone's favorite game maker, Mr. Lemoncello, is testing out his new FABULOUS FACT-FINDING FRENZY game! If Kyle can make it through the first round, he and the other lucky finalists will go on a great race--by bicycle, bookmobile, and even Mr. Lemoncello's corporate banana jet!--to find fascinating facts about famous Americans. The first to bring their facts back to the library will win spectacular prizes! But when a few surprising "facts" surface about Mr. Lemoncello, it might be GO TO JAIL and LOSE A TURN all at once! Could Kyle's hero be a fraud? It's winner take all, so Kyle and the other kids will have to dig deep to find out the truth before the GAME is OVER for Mr. Lemoncello and his entire fantastic empire!
Filled with brand-new puzzles and games (including a hidden bonus puzzle!), this fast-paced read will have gamers and readers alike racing to the finish line because, like Mr. Lemoncello's commercials say, IS IT FUN? . . . HELLO! IT'S A LEMONCELLO!
* "An ode to libraries and literature that is a worthy successor to the original madman puzzle-master himself, Willy Wonka." -- Booklist, Starred, on Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
"Just as much of an adventure as the first." -- The Washington Post , on Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
Author Notes
Chris Grabenstein was born in Buffalo, New York on September 2, 1955. He studied journalism and theater at the University of Tennessee and then moved to New York City. For five years, he performed and won awards with some of the city's top Improvisational Comedy troupes. He wrote for Jim Henson's Muppets. In 1986, he and Ronny Venable wrote a TV movie for CBS called The Christmas Gift. He also worked as an advertising executive for close to twenty years.
He won the Anthony Award for best first mystery for his first adult mystery Tilt-a-Whirl. His other novels for adults include Mad Mouse, Whack-a-Mole, Hell Hole, Mind Scrambler and Rolling Thunder. He received another Anthony Award and four Agatha Awards for his work. His books for younger readers include Escape from Mr. Lemonchello's Library, The Island of Dr. Libris, the Treasure Hunters series, the Haunted Mystery series, the Riley Mack series, and the I Funny series written with James Patterson.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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School Library Journal Review
Gr 3-6-Eccentric billionaire game maker Luigi Lemoncello is back with all-new games and contraptions. In his ultramodern, high-tech library, Lemoncello unveils his newest creation, the Nonfictionator, which is capable of generating historical holograms, including Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt, who then converse with library patrons. Kyle Keeley, Akimi, and the other young contestants are back in this third installment facing their greatest challenge yet-the Great Library Race. Teams of contestants must travel by bookmobile and Mr. Lemoncello's private jet as they discover clues about historical figures such as Thomas Edison and the Wright brothers. When Kyle's team unearths evidence that suggests that the title character is a fraud who stole the ideas for his blockbuster games, it is up to the young sleuths to learn the truth before Lemoncello's empire and library are ruined. Lemoncello's nemesis game rivals, the Krinkle brothers, along with a slew of other nefarious characters, try to mastermind an evil takeover. Fans will embrace this new entry, which, like the previous books, features lightning-fast pacing and zany plotlines. Educators will be pleased by the emphasis on careful research and fact-checking. VERDICT Chock-full of literary references, this title will have readers racing to pick up the next volume in this popular series.-Michele Shaw, Quail Run Elementary School, San Ramon, CA © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Excerpts
Excerpts
This was a game Kyle Keeley refused to lose. For the first time since Mr. Lemoncello's famous library escape contest, he was up against his old nemesis, Charles Chiltington. "Surrender, Keeley!" Charles jeered from three spaces ahead. "Chiltingtons never lose!" "Except, you know, when they do!" shouted Kyle's best friend, Akimi Hughes. She was ten spaces behind Kyle and couldn't stand seeing Charles in the lead. The life-size board game had been rolled out like a plastic runner rug around the outer ring of tables in the Rotunda Reading Room of Mr. Lemoncello's library. "The game's not over until it's over, Charles," Kyle said with a smile. He had landed on a bright red question mark square, while Charles was safe on "Free Standing." A shaky collection of drifting holograms hovered over their heads, suspended in midair beneath the building's magnificent Wonder Dome. The dome's giant video screens were dark so they wouldn't interfere with the ghostly green images creating what Mr. Lemoncello called a Rube Goldberg contraption--a device deliberately designed to perform a very simple task in an extremely complicated way. Most Rube Goldberg contraptions involve a chain reaction. In Mr. Lemoncello's Rickety-Trickety Fact or Fictiony game, a new piece of the chain was added every time one of the players gave an incorrect answer. If someone reached the finish line before all the pieces lined up, they won. However, if any player gave one too many wrong answers, they would trigger the chain reaction and end up trapped under a pointed dunce cap. They would lose. "Are you ready for your question, Mr. Keeley?" boomed Mr. Lemoncello, acting as the quiz master. "Yes, sir," said Kyle. "Fact or fiction for six," said Mr. Lemoncello, reading from a bright yellow game card. "At five feet four inches, George Washington was the shortest American president ever elected. Would you like to answer or do the research?" It was a tough choice, especially since Kyle didn't know the answer. If he did the research, he'd have to go back one space and lose a turn so he could look up the correct answer on one of the tablet computers built into the nearby reading desk. But while he was researching, Charles might surge ahead. He might even make it all the way to the finish line. On the other hand, even though Kyle didn't know the answer, if he said either "fact" or "fiction," he had a fifty-fifty chance of being right and moving forward six spaces, putting him in front of Charles, and that much closer to victory. Of course, Kyle also had a fifty-fifty chance of being wrong and adding what might be the final hologram to the wobbly contraption overhead. "Do the research, Kyle!" urged Akimi. "Please do," sneered Charles. "Yo!" shouted another one of Kyle's best buds, Miguel Fernandez. "Don't let Chiltington get under your dome, bro. He's just playing mind games with you." "Impossible." Charles sniffed. "Keeley doesn't have a mind for me to play with." "Uh, uh, uh," said Mr. Lemoncello. "Charles, I wonder if, just this once, you might choose kind?" He turned to Kyle. "Well, Mr. Keeley? No one can make this decision for you, unless, of course, you hire a professional decider, but trust me--they are decidedly expensive. Are you willing to put everything on a waffle and take a wild guess?" Kyle hated losing a turn when the whole idea was to win the game. He hated going backward when the object was to move forward. He studied the teetering collection of holograms suspended under the darkened dome. He looked at Charles, who was sneering back at him smugly. "I want to answer, sir." "Very well," said Mr. Lemoncello. "Let me repeat the question before the cucumbers I had for lunch repeat on me: At five feet four inches, George Washington was the shortest American president ever elected. Fact or fiction?" Kyle took a deep breath. He remembered some teacher once saying people were shorter back in the olden days. So odds were that Washington was a shrimp. "That, sir," he said, "is a . . . fact?" A buzzer SCRONK ed like a sick goose. "Sorry," said Mr. Lemoncello. "It is, in fact, fiction. At six feet three inches, George Washington was one of our tallest presidents. It's time to add another piece to our dangling-dunce-cap-trap contraption." Electronic notes diddled up a scale. "Oh, dear," said Mr. Lemoncello. "It looks like that's the last straw!" A hologram of a striped milk carton straw floated into place. It shot a spitball at a hologram of an old-fashioned cash register, which hit a button, which made the cash drawer pop open with a BING! The drawer smacked a holographic golf ball, which BOINK ed down seven steps of a staircase one at a time until it bopped into a row of dominoes, which started to tumble in a curving line. The final domino triggered a catapult, which fired a Ping-Pong ball, which smacked a rooster in the butt. The bird cock-a-doodle-doo ed, which startled a tiny man in a striped bathing suit standing on top of a fifty-foot ladder so much that he leapt off, spiraled down, and landed with a splash in a wooden bucket, which, since it was suddenly heavier, pulled a rope that struck a match, which lit a fuse, which ignited a fireworks rocket, which blasted off, which knocked the dunce cap off its hook. The holographic hat of shame fell and covered Kyle like an upside-down ice cream cone. "Loser!" crowed Charles. Everybody else laughed. By taking a wild guess, Kyle hadn't gone backward or lost a turn. But he'd definitely lost the game! Excerpted from Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race by Chris Grabenstein All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.