{"product_id":"mr-lemoncellos-great-library-race-isbn-9780553536096","title":"Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLING SERIES WITH MORE THAN TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn your marks. Get set. \u003ci\u003eRead!\u003c\/i\u003e From what James Patterson calls “the coolest library in the world” to the race of a lifetime, follow along and solve the clues in this interactive adventure! By the co-author of \u003ci\u003eMurdle Jr.: Sleuths on the Loose\u003c\/i\u003e…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A worthy successor to the original madman puzzle-master himself, Willy Wonka.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review of \u003ci\u003eEscape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone’s favorite game maker, Mr. Lemoncello, is testing out his new fabulous fact-finding frenzy game. Kyle Keeley and the other lucky finalists will go on a great race—by bicycle, bookmobile, even Mr. Lemoncello’s corporate banana jet!—to find fascinating facts about famous Americans—and win spectacular prizes. But when a few surprising “facts” about Mr. Lemoncello surface, it might just be \u003ci\u003egame over\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon’t miss the bonus puzzle in the back!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Lemoncello books are laugh-out-loud, puzzle-packed must-reads for classrooms and homes across America. Look for the whole series!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMr. Lemoncello’s Very First Game \u003c\/i\u003e(the prequel)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEscape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library \u003c\/i\u003e(also available as a graphic novel) \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics \u003c\/i\u003e(also available as a graphic novel)\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMr. Lemoncello’s Great Library Race\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMr. Lemoncello’s All-Star Breakout Game\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMr. Lemoncello and the Titanium Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMr. Lemoncello’s Fantabulous Finale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePRAISE FOR THE SERIES:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e44 state award lists and counting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Discover the coolest library in the world.\" —James Patterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lots of action and quirky humor.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* \"A worthy successor to the original madman puzzle-master himself, Willy Wonka.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* \"A winner for readers and game-players alike.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* \"A fun-filled, suspenseful intellectual puzzle.\" —\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Will have readers racing to pick up the next volume.\" —\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Grabenstein\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of the Mr. Lemoncello, Smartest Kid in the Universe, Dog Squad, and Welcome to Wonderland series, as well as the coauthor of numerous page-turners with James Patterson and of \u003ci\u003eShine!\u003c\/i\u003e, cowritten with Chris’s wife, J.J. Grabenstein.This was a game Kyle Keeley refused to lose. \u003cbr\u003e For the first time since Mr. Lemoncello’s famous library escape contest, he was up against his old nemesis, Charles Chiltington. \u003cbr\u003e “Surrender, Keeley!” Charles jeered from three spaces ahead. “Chiltingtons never lose!” \u003cbr\u003e “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. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e “The game’s not over until it’s over, Charles,” Kyle said with a smile. \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e They would lose.\u003cbr\u003e “Are you ready for your question, Mr. Keeley?” boomed Mr. Lemoncello, acting as the quiz master.\u003cbr\u003e “Yes, sir,” said Kyle.\u003cbr\u003e “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?”\u003cbr\u003e It was a tough choice, especially since Kyle didn’t know the answer.\u003cbr\u003e If he did the research, he’d have to go back one space \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003elose a turn so he could look up the correct answer on one of the tablet computers built into the nearby reading desk.\u003cbr\u003e But while he was researching, Charles might surge ahead. He might even make it all the way to the finish line.\u003cbr\u003e On the other hand, even though Kyle didn’t know the answer, if he said either “fact” \u003ci\u003eor \u003c\/i\u003e“fiction,” he had a fifty-fifty chance of being right and moving forward six spaces, putting him \u003ci\u003ein front \u003c\/i\u003eof Charles, and that much closer to victory.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e “Do the research, Kyle!” urged Akimi.\u003cbr\u003e “Please do,” sneered Charles.\u003cbr\u003e “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.”\u003cbr\u003e “Impossible.” Charles sniffed. “Keeley doesn’t have a mind for me to play with.”\u003cbr\u003e “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?”\u003cbr\u003e Kyle hated losing a turn when the whole idea was to \u003ci\u003ewin \u003c\/i\u003ethe game. He hated going backward when the object was to move forward. \u003cbr\u003e He studied the teetering collection of holograms suspended under the darkened dome. He looked at Charles, who was sneering back at him smugly.\u003cbr\u003e “I want to answer, sir.”\u003cbr\u003e “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?”\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e “That, sir,” he said, “is a . . . fact?”\u003cbr\u003e A buzzer \u003ci\u003eSCRONK\u003c\/i\u003eed like a sick goose.\u003cbr\u003e “Sorry,” said Mr. Lemoncello. “It is, in fact, fiction. At six feet three inches, George Washington was one of our \u003ci\u003etallest \u003c\/i\u003epresidents. It’s time to add another piece to our dangling-dunce-cap-trap contraption.”\u003cbr\u003e Electronic notes diddled up a scale.\u003cbr\u003e “Oh, dear,” said Mr. Lemoncello. “It looks like that’s the last straw!”\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBING! \u003c\/i\u003eThe drawer smacked a holographic golf ball, which \u003ci\u003eBOINK\u003c\/i\u003eed 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 \u003ci\u003ecock-a-doodle-doo\u003c\/i\u003eed, 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.\u003cbr\u003e The holographic hat of shame fell and covered Kyle like an upside-down ice cream cone.\u003cbr\u003e “Loser!” crowed Charles.\u003cbr\u003e Everybody else laughed.\u003cbr\u003e By taking a wild guess, Kyle hadn’t gone backward or lost a turn.\u003cbr\u003e But he’d definitely lost the game! \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Yearling","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303266078949,"sku":"NP9780553536096","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780553536096.jpg?v=1767733042","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/mr-lemoncellos-great-library-race-isbn-9780553536096","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}