Event

Jennifer Bertman, Book Scavenger

Sponsored by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler's

"Book Scavenger"

Thursday, April 14, 2016
7:00pm

Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Join us to hear Jennifer Bertman talk about one of our favorite puzzle-mysteries, Book Scavenger. Publisher's Weekly, in a starred review, said, "Full of heart and replete with challenging ciphers for readers to decode, Bertman's debut is literary cousin to classic puzzlers like The Westing Game, and a story that values books and reading above other pursuits. Sure to be popular with voracious readers"

For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it's the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger (a game where books are hidden in cities all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles). Upon her arrival, however, Emily learns that Griswold has been attacked and is now in a coma, and no one knows anything about the epic new game he had been poised to launch. Then Emily and her new friend James discover an odd book, which they come to believe is from Griswold himself, and might contain the only copy of his mysterious new game. Racing against time, Emily and James rush from clue to clue, desperate to figure out the secret at the heart of Griswold's new gamebefore those who attacked Griswold come after them too.

The event is free - please register today.