Fourth Grade Book Club- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Yesterday I had fourth grade book club. We used the discussion ball (a ball that has questions on all over it and the five W's which correspond to cards that have book specific questions). That took up about a half an hour of our time. The second half of the club meeting was spent playing a game based on the book. In the book Charles Chilington (?) used books on display to find the books in the stacks which had clues in them. This is what I did. I took printouts of book covers and the children had to learn to look up and locate the books in J Non-Fiction to get the clues. These clues made up a sentence saying where the key was to the treasure (prizes). The kids absolutely loved running (sort of) around the library trying to finish before the end of book club. They did really well and found the key to the room "Where the Lemoncello book should go". So they had to go to Grabenstein in the Fiction Stacks with his other books, in order to get the key. It was a lot of fun and a great idea for the future. Next we are reading The Detective's Assistant by Kate Hanigan.