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Book and puzzle enthusiasts will enjoy this title, as will listeners who simply enjoy a fun story with relatable, intriguing characters. ["The action drags occasionally, and the characterizations are sparse and sometimes overly cute, but the book's goofy, feckless charm is undeniable": SLJ 5/15 review of the Holt book.]
This will appeal to fans of Blue Balliett's art-world mysteries.—Katya Schapiro, Brooklyn Public Library
Twelve-year-old Emily is an avid player of Book Scavenger, the hidden-book game masterminded by publishing legend Garrison Griswold. When her family moves to San Francisco, home of Griswold’s Bayside Press, she hopes it will position her favorably for the new game he’s about to launch. But then Griswold is mugged and left in a coma, and the book he was carrying—a new edition of the Edgar Allan Poe short story “The Gold-Bug”—is missing. At the site of the mugging, Emily and her new friend and fellow code-enthusiast James find the book and take it home, where, upon reading it, they discover typos in the text that spell out words: fort, wild, rat, home, open, belief. Emily and James start following the clues