70 pages • 2 hours read
Chris GrabensteinEscape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Chapters 51-56Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 51 Summary
Mr. Lemoncello asks if Charles, who is simply waiting, will go to the Dewey rooms or look for a book. Charles says he is holding out for his Uncle Jimmy.
Chapter 52 Summary
Mr. Lemoncello announces the re-opening of the Dewey Rooms above them, but no one makes the mad dash he expects. Kyle and his team study the contents of the memory box. Kyle reminds them of the clue in the Extreme Challenge riddle: “My first idea is your certain solution” (246). In the memory box, an envelope labeled “First and Worst Idea Ever” they find a simple decoding game in which words in a message are spelled out with whole words whose first letter is a letter of the coded word. They try this with the titles list, tinkering until they get it: “In 1968, the way out was a way in” (264). They determine that the rhyme with “Andy” they guessed earlier (candy) is wrong and set off to the third floor to try something else.
Chapter 53 Summary
In the Art and Artifacts Room, the clues come together for Kyle and his team. Akimi mentions again another possibility for the “Andy” rhyme, “the Dandy Bandits,” as she looks at the hats.
