Chris Grabenstein - the author of a great book that I love, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library. So when I was in the library, I was pretty surprised when I saw this book. If you’d read Escape from Mr.Lemoncello’s Library, you’d know it takes place in a library, and it involves books. Well, The Island of Dr.Libris doesn’t just involve books, it involves characters from the books.

Billy Gillfoyle is just your average 12 year old boy with a huge imagination and parents who are almost the complete opposite. Billy’s mom is a mathematician, and Billy’s dad produces commercials. And they don’t live together. One summer, Billy goes to spend the summer in a lakeside cottage that his mother had rented from Dr. Xiang Libris. There he meets his siblings Walter and Alyssa, and his soon to be enemy Nick Farkas. On the first day he’s there, his mom tells him that Dr. Libris has a library. Billy goes to explore the library and sees the glass case full of books his mom told him was locked up. Billy inspected the lock, and using what he had learned from books, Billy was able to find the key, which was something no one else had been able to do before. He opened the case and grabbed The Labors of Hercules. Upon opening it, Billy heard something. He kept on reading and realized the sounds he was hearing was the story. Billy rushed out, but he couldn’t see anything as it was night. The next day Billy went back to the library then went outside. He knew that there was an island nearby, so he took a rowboat to go there. The only problem was that Billy hadn’t ever been in a rowboat before. As he was struggling to get to the island something helped him. At the time he thought it was something mechanical, but he realized later that it was Poseidon. Billy got to the island, only to see two huge men battling. Billy was about to experience an adventure he had never imagined before…

I liked this book, so you might as well!

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