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by Denis Markell
Every kid who loves Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library is going to eat. This. Up. Basically, it's an escape room in book form. It's got puzzles and action and adventure and some fun historical multi-cultural details.
I had a few problems with it that bugged me, though. The biggest one was how the main boy characters treated the one girl character. They basically spent the entire book annoyed and aggravated that she was smart. Now, I realize that the character does GROW throughout the book and realize that maybe having a smart female friend is actually a GOOD thing, rather than an annoying hindrance...but there was still a LOT there about how bossy and know-it-all and obnoxiously well-read she was. As a girl, it kinda bugged me. I wonder how girls who read this book will feel about it?
Again...there is character growth...but it's something to think about while you're reading. Still, I probably will end up book-talking this for summer reading because it's going to be insanely popular, and every kid I've given it to has read it voraciously and clamored for more.
I had a few problems with it that bugged me, though. The biggest one was how the main boy characters treated the one girl character. They basically spent the entire book annoyed and aggravated that she was smart. Now, I realize that the character does GROW throughout the book and realize that maybe having a smart female friend is actually a GOOD thing, rather than an annoying hindrance...but there was still a LOT there about how bossy and know-it-all and obnoxiously well-read she was. As a girl, it kinda bugged me. I wonder how girls who read this book will feel about it?
Again...there is character growth...but it's something to think about while you're reading. Still, I probably will end up book-talking this for summer reading because it's going to be insanely popular, and every kid I've given it to has read it voraciously and clamored for more.