Response To Chris Frankenstein Escape From Mr Lemoncello's Library

Reading Response

Escape from Mr lemoncello's library by Chris Grabenstein, published June 25, 2013 is about a new, technology filled library in Alexandriaville, designed by world famous board gamemaker, Luigi Lemoncello. In the story, students compete to write an essay about why they want to go use the library. The winners will be present at the library lock in, experiencing their new library a day before it officially opens to the public. But when they wake up, the doors won’t budge. The kids are playing a game of their, own, only with themselves as game pieces. The story quickly unfolds in mystery as the children compete to escape and find and exit from the library. To do that they need to solve a giant puzzle, using only the resources

He is a cocky, snooty, and arrogant cheater that no one likes. Charles is very intelligent though, but uses his smarts in the wrong direction. For example, he unfairly tricks another competitor by shouting, “Hey guys, I am going to win! I found the exit to the library!” Charles pointed to the fire exit door and shot off. Once another competitor was sprinting behind him, Charles faked to trip, and the other competitor passed him, opened the door, and got eliminated. Charles knew that you could not exit out of the fire doors, so instead, he dragged someone into a dishonest trap. Although Charles got eliminated at the end for all his sneaky behavior, I think that Mr. Lemoncello should have stepped in before, and not have let him cheat so

These characters had something you could relate to, despise in them, admire in them, or have a special quality that other kids don’t have. For example, I could really feel how much Kyle wanted to win the contest against Charles, because he has two older brothers that beat him in everything, so winning is very rare. I also liked how much the characters are fascinated with books, and one of the characters, Sierra Russell, is a really big trivia buff when it come to book titles and what they are about. On the other hand, I disliked the fact that is was really confusing to follow along with all the complicated clues and how other clues could work in coalition with each other. I read another book called The Genius Files: You Only Die Twice, and it showed a very detailed and easy to read description of all the ciphers and clues there were in the book. If I were to change something, I would make the map of the library, that is showed more in the story. At the start, when they were introduced to the library, they were showed a map, that was displayed on the page of the book. If they showed it every chapter, it could help me visualize the library a lot more, and it would be fun to track them across and see where each team is in the library. That would also help make predictions to guess what people are going to do. Overall, I would