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Chapter 31 "So, does anybody have a clue as to why we were supposed to find this book?" asked Kyle. He and his teammates were back in the Young Adult Room staring at the cover of Get to Know Your Local Library. "Too early to tell," said Miguel. "Let's keep playing. This book will probably make more sense once we go into the other rooms and pick up more clues." "Whose turn is it?" asked Akimi. "Yours," said Kyle. "Flick the spinner."

“那么，有人知道我们为什么会找到这本书吗?”凯尔问。 他和队友们回到青少年阅览室，盯着《了解当地图书馆》的封面。 “现在下结论还为时过早，”米格尔说。 “我们继续玩吧。一旦我们进入其他房间，找到更多线索，这本书可能会更有意义。” “轮到谁了?”明美问。 “你的，”凯尔说。“拨动旋转器。”

Akimi finger-kicked the plastic pointer. "Purple!" she yelled when the arrow slid to a stop. "The eight hundreds." "That means you move eight spaces," mumbled Kyle. "Except today." Akimi reached for the card on top of the purple stack. When she saw what was written on it, she frowned. "What's the clue?" asked Kyle. "Something about Literature, Rhetoric, or Criticism?" asked Miguel. "Nope," said Akimi. "It's a wild card. With a riddle." "Read it!" said Sierra. " 'I rhyme with dart and crackerjacks. Visit me and find a rhyme for Andy.' " "Peckleman?" said Kyle. "How'd he get his name on a game card?" "Bro," said Miguel, "nobody calls Andrew Peckleman 'Andy.' Of course, it could mean Andrew Jackson. The seventh president of the United States." "Or Andy Panda," said Akimi.

Akimi用手指踢了踢塑料指针。 “紫色!”当箭停下来时，她喊道。 “八百块。”“这意味着你移动了八个空间，”凯尔咕哝道。 “除了今天。”明美伸手去拿那摞紫色卡片最上面的那张。 当她看到上面写的东西时，她皱起了眉头。 “线索是什么?”凯尔问。 “文学、修辞还是批评?”米格尔问。 “不，”明美说。“这是一个未知数。 还有一个谜语。”“读吧!”西拉说。 我和dart和crackerjacks押韵。 来找我，给安迪找个押韵词。“佩克曼?”凯尔说。 “他的名字是怎么出现在游戏卡上的?”“兄弟，”米格尔说，“没人叫安德鲁·佩克曼‘安迪’。”当然，也可能是安德鲁·杰克逊。 美国第七任总统。” “或者安迪熊猫，”明美说。

"Or Andrew Carnegie," said Sierra. "He was a generous supporter of libraries." "Okay," said Kyle. "Let's concentrate on the first part of the riddle. What rhymes with 'dart and crackerjacks'?" "Smart and heart attacks?" suggested Miguel. "Art and bric-a-bracs?" said Sierra. "Art and Artifacts!" said Akimi, nailing it. They hurried over to the Art & Artifacts Room. "Everybody—check out the display cases," said Kyle. "See if anything rhymes with the word 'Andy.' " "Well, this model of the old bank building is certainly 'grandy,' " said Miguel. "And the Pharaoh's pyramid and sphinx would be sandy if they weren't made out of Legos." "True," said Kyle, sounding unconvinced about both. "Check it out, you guys," cried Akimi, who was studying a row of Styrofoam heads sporting hats.

“或者安德鲁·卡内基，”塞拉说。 “他是图书馆的慷慨支持者。” “好吧，”凯尔说。“让我们把注意力集中在谜语的第一部分。 什么和‘dart and crackerjacks’押韵?”“聪明和心脏病?”米格尔建议道。 “艺术品和小摆设?”西拉说。 “艺术品和文物!”明美说着，钉住了它。 他们匆匆跑到艺术品室。 “大家都去看看陈列柜，”凯尔说。 “看看有没有什么东西和‘安迪’押韵。米格尔说:“嗯，这个老银行大楼的模型确实很‘气派’。” “法老的金字塔和狮身人面像如果不是用乐高积木做的，就会变成沙子。” “没错，”凯尔说，听起来对两者都不太信服。 “快看，伙计们，”明美喊道，她正在研究一排泡沫塑料头的运动帽。

"This plaid fedora from 1968 was worn by a guy named Leopold Loblolly." "So?" said Kyle. "According to this plaque, Loblolly was 'one of the notorious Dandy Bandits.' 'Dandy' rhymes with 'Andy.' " "That it does," said Miguel. "However, 'Loblolly' does not." "Neither does 'Leopold,' " added Kyle. " 'Candy' rhymes with 'Andy'!" said Sierra. She was staring at the objects in a display case under a banner reading "Welcome to the Wonderful World of Willy Wonka." "Awesome!" said Miguel, hurrying over to admire the collection of Everlasting Gobstoppers, Glumptious Globgobblers, Laffy Taffy, and Pixy Stix displayed under glass in a sea of purple velvet. "Mr. Lemoncello is a lot like Willy Wonka," said Kyle. "You mean crazy?" said Akimi. "I prefer the term 'eccentric' " "And Dr. Zinchenko is his Oompa-Loompa," said Sierra.

“这顶1968年的格子软呢帽是一个叫利奥波德·洛布洛利的人戴的。” “那又怎样?”凯尔说。“这块牌匾上写着，洛宝利是‘臭名昭著的纨绔子弟’之一。“Dandy”和“Andy”押韵。’”“是的，”米格尔说。 “然而，‘Loblolly’却没有。” “《利奥波德》也没有，”凯尔补充道。 “‘Candy’和‘Andy’押韵!”塞拉说。 她盯着展示柜里的物品，横幅上写着“欢迎来到威利·旺卡的奇妙世界”。 “太棒了!”米格尔说着，匆匆走过去欣赏那些陈列在紫色天鹅绒海洋里的玻璃陈列室，里面陈列着永恒的gobstops、美味的Globgobblers、拉菲太妃糖和Pixy Stix。 “莱蒙切罗先生很像威利·旺卡，”凯尔说。 “你是说疯了?”明美说。 “我更喜欢‘古怪’这个词。” 津琴科是他的奥柏伦柏，”塞拉说。

Everybody started giggling. "Nah," Akimi joked, "she's too tall." "And not nearly orange enough," added Miguel. "The Willy Wonka book was written by Roald Dahl," said Sierra, who, Kyle figured, could name twelve other books the guy wrote, too. "In it, Mr. Wonka takes Charlie and Grandpa Joe home in a flying glass elevator that crashes through the roof of his chocolate factory." Everybody thought about that for a second. "So now we have to find a glass elevator?" said Akimi. "Because there isn't one on the floor plan." "But Mr. Lemoncello is just wild enough to build one," said Kyle. "And if he did, he probably wouldn't put it on the floor plan." "No way," said Miguel. "Everybody would want to ride on it." "I know I would," said Sierra. "So we're seriously searching for a secret glass elevator?" said Akimi. "Maybe," said Kyle. "Maybe not. This is just another piece of a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. We

每个人都开始咯咯地笑。 “不，”明美开玩笑说，“她太高了。” “而且还不够橙，”米格尔补充道。 “《威利·旺卡》这本书是罗尔德·达尔写的，”西拉说，凯尔猜想，她还能说出这个人写的其他十二本书。 “在这部电影里，旺卡先生用一架会飞的玻璃电梯把查理和乔爷爷带回家，电梯撞穿了他的巧克力工厂的屋顶。” 每个人都想了一下。 “所以现在我们必须找一个玻璃电梯?”明美说。 “因为平面图上没有。” “但莱蒙切罗先生很疯狂，他会造一个，”凯尔说。 “就算他知道，他可能也不会把它写在平面图上。” “不可能，”米格尔说。“每个人都想乘坐它。” “我知道我会的，”塞拉说。 “所以我们真的在寻找一个秘密的玻璃电梯?”明美说。 “也许吧，”凯尔说。“也许不是。 这只是一块巨大的拼图。 我们

won't see the whole picture until we collect all the pieces." "Or someone shows us the box lid," cracked Akimi. "Look, it's only six p.m.," said Kyle. "And we're collecting a ton of good information." "You mean a ton of random information," said Akimi. "Well," said Miguel, "once we have more clues, we can use Sherlock Holmes's famous 'deductive reasoning' method to make logical connections between all the random junk." "Works for me," said Kyle. "But if we're going to play Sherlock Holmes, we need to go spin that spinner and dig up more clues." "The game's afoot," said Sierra. "Huh?" Kyle and Akimi said it together. "Sorry. It's just something Sherlock says to Watson whenever he gets excited." Sherlock Holmes. Kyle had just found another bunch of books to add to his reading list.

直到我们收集到所有的碎片，我们才能看到完整的画面。” “或者有人给我们看看盒盖，”明美说。 “看，现在才下午六点，”凯尔说。 “我们正在收集大量有用的信息。” “你的意思是大量的随机信息，”Akimi说。 “好吧，”米格尔说，“一旦我们有了更多的线索，我们就可以用夏洛克·福尔摩斯著名的‘演绎推理’方法，在所有随机的垃圾之间建立逻辑联系。” “对我有用，”凯尔说。 “但如果我们要扮演夏洛克·福尔摩斯，我们就需要旋转旋转器，挖掘更多线索。” “游戏正在进行中，”塞拉说。 “嗯?”Kyle和Akimi一起说的。 “对不起。夏洛克兴奋的时候就会对华生说这句话。” 福尔摩斯。凯尔刚刚又找到了一堆书加入他的阅读清单。