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Chapter 38 "Very interesting," said Akimi, looking through the café's glass walls and into the Rotunda Reading Room. "What?" said Miguel. "I think Clarence just dropped off our books." Kyle pushed back from the table. He could see the shadowy figure of the bulky security guard slinking away from the round desk at the center of the rotunda. He left behind a stack of books. "Come on," he said. "Let's go see what sort of 'inspirational' reading Dr. Zinchenko has selected

第三十八章“很有趣。”明美说，透过咖啡馆的玻璃墙，看向圆形大厅的阅览室。 “什么?”米格尔说。“我想克拉伦斯刚刚把我们的书放下来了。” 凯尔推开了桌子。 他可以看到那个大块头保安的影子正从圆形大厅中央的圆桌子旁悄悄溜走。 他留下了一摞书。 “来吧，”他说。“让我们去看看什么‘鼓舞人心’的阅读博士。 津琴科选择了

for us." "What about those guys?" said Miguel, gesturing toward the table where Charles and Andrew were finishing their desserts. Kyle was torn. On one hand, he didn't want to give away the bonus his team had received thanks to the other team's penalty. On the other hand, he didn't want people saying he and his friends won because Mr. Lemoncello had tossed them an extra clue. He came up with a compromise. "Hey, Charles? Andrew? We're all going to go grab some books to read to kill time till tomorrow morning. You two might want to do the same thing." "No thanks." Charles stood up. "We pretty much have this thing figured out. In fact, I think Mr. Lemoncello steered us toward the Clunker Card so we wouldn't win too easily. I mean, how would it look if we escaped from his library in less than twenty-four hours?" "Bad," said Andrew. "Real bad." "Indeed," said Charles. "In fact, I suspect nobody would buy Lemoncello games anymore if

适合我们。”“那些人呢?”米格尔指着查尔斯和安德鲁正在吃甜点的桌子说。 凯尔很伤心。一方面，他不想放弃他的球队因为对方的点球而获得的奖金。 另一方面，他不希望人们说他和他的朋友赢了，是因为莱蒙切罗给了他们额外的线索。 他想出了一个折衷办法。 “嘿,查理?安德鲁?我们都要去找些书来打发时间，直到明天早上。 你们俩可能也想做同样的事情。” “不,谢谢”。查尔斯站了起来。 “我们基本上已经解决了这个问题。 事实上，我认为莱蒙塞罗先生让我们选择旧车卡是为了不让我们轻易获胜。 我的意思是，如果我们在不到二十四小时的时间里从他的图书馆逃走，会是什么样子?”“糟透了。”安德鲁说。 “真正的坏。”“的确，”查尔斯说。 事实上，我怀疑没有人会再购买Lemoncello的游戏了

we showed them how consistently easy they are to win. Anyway, we're going upstairs so I can give Andrew a tour of my private suite. Would any of you care to join us?" "No thanks," said Akimi. "Suit yourself. Oh, by the way, Mr. Lemoncello has a real video game console upstairs." Kyle felt his mouth going dry. "It's top-of-the-line equipment. And it plays real games. Not just educational stuff. Care to join us, Keeley?" "Um …" "We're going to play Squirrel Squad Six. The new edition. According to the game box, it won't be released to the general public until early December." Kyle felt sweat beading on his forehead. His palms were moist. His fingers were twitching, itching to thumb-toggle a joystick. But finally, after the inside of his mouth had turned to sandpaper, he said, "No thanks, Charles. We're just gonna, you know, read."

我们向他们展示了他们是多么容易取胜。 不管怎样，我们要上楼了我要带安德鲁参观一下我的私人套房。 你们有谁愿意和我们一起去吗?”“不，谢谢，”明美说。 “随你便。对了，莱蒙塞洛先生楼上有个真正的游戏机" 凯尔感到口干。 “这是顶级的设备。 它玩真正的游戏。不仅仅是教育方面的东西。 基利，愿意和我们一起去吗?”“嗯……”“我们要玩松鼠六队。 新版。从游戏盒子上看，它要到12月初才会向公众发布。” 凯尔感到额头上开始冒汗。 他的手掌湿润了。他的手指在抽搐，渴望用拇指拨动操纵杆。 但最后，在他的嘴里变成了砂纸之后，他说:“不，谢谢，查尔斯。 我们只是，你知道，读书。”

After Charles and Andrew headed up to the third floor to play what was probably the most awesome version ever of Mr. Lemoncello's most awesome video game ever (if Charles Chiltington was actually telling the truth), Kyle and his teammates hurried out to see what books were waiting for them on the librarian's table. They found seven different versions of the same book: The Complete Sherlock Holmes. One was a leather-bound limited edition; another was a tattered paperback; three were hardcovers with different illustrations on their fronts; one was a bigger kind of paperback with lots of scholarly essays; and the seventh was an e-reader with only the one title loaded onto it. "I think Mr. Lemoncello wants us to start a book club," said Sierra. "What do you mean?" asked Kyle. "You know—we all read the same book and then get together later to discuss it and share our opinions." "It's fun," said Miguel. "We have a book group at school." "Are you in it?" asked Sierra.

查尔斯和安德鲁上了三楼，去玩莱蒙切罗先生有史以来最棒的电子游戏(如果查尔斯·齐尔廷顿说的是真的)，这可能是有史以来最棒的版本。之后，凯尔和他的队友急忙跑出去，看看图书管理员的桌子上有什么书在等着他们。 他们找到了同一本书的七个不同版本:《福尔摩斯全集》。 一个是皮革封面的限量版;另一本是破烂的平装书;其中三本是精装书，正面有不同的插图;一种是更大的平装书，里面有很多学术论文;第七个是只加载了一个标题的电子阅读器。 “我想莱蒙塞罗先生想让我们创办一个读书俱乐部，”塞拉说。 “你什么意思?”凯尔问。 “你知道，我们都读同一本书，然后聚在一起讨论，分享我们的观点。” “很有趣，”米格尔说。“我们在学校有一个读书小组。” “你在里面吗?”西拉问。

"Yeah. Maybe you'd like to join us sometime?" "I would. Thank you, Miguel." Akimi cleared her throat. "Now what?" she said to Kyle. Kyle shrugged. "Like I told Charles. We read." Everybody grabbed a copy of the Sherlock Holmes book. Nobody went for the e-reader. Upstairs on the third floor, Haley tiptoed around the Lemoncello-abilia Room. When she had visited the mini-museum earlier, she hadn't really looked around. Now she hoped to find another book from the "memorable reads" display, a Little Golden Book called Baby's Mother Goose: Pat-a-Cake, which could've been something Mr. Lemoncello read (or had read to him) when he was a very young boy. Haley made her way past the orderly stacks of boxes through a doorway and into what looked like a re-creation of Mr. Lemoncello's childhood bedroom—a cramped space crammed with two

“是的。也许你愿意什么时候加入我们?”“我会的。 谢谢你，米格尔。”明美清了清嗓子。 “现在怎么办?”她对凯尔说。 凯尔耸耸肩。“就像我告诉查尔斯的那样。 我们读。”每个人都拿了一本福尔摩斯的书。 没有人选择电子阅读器。 在楼上的三楼，海莉蹑手蹑脚地在柠檬celllo -abilia房间里走来走去。 当她早些时候参观迷你博物馆时，她并没有真正四处看看。 现在，她希望能从“难忘读物”展览中再找到一本书，那是一本名为《婴儿的鹅妈妈:拍拍蛋糕》(Baby’s Mother Goose: pata - cake)的小金书，可能是莱蒙切罗小时候读过(或读给他听过)的书。 哈利穿过一扇门，穿过一堆堆整齐的盒子，走进一间看起来像是莱蒙切罗先生童年时代卧室的复制品——一个挤了两个人的狭窄空间

bunk beds that he had shared with his three brothers. Next to one of the lower bunks was a bookcase made out of plastic milk crates. There it was, filed away with maybe three dozen other skinny, hardboard-covered picture books. Haley pried open the cover. Out plopped a four-by-four art card: She quickly folded it in half and stuffed it inside her sneaker with her "BANDITS" clue. Because now she was pretty certain that "bandits" had, at one time or another, "crawled in" to this building back when it was a bank. The silhouette of Indiana didn't represent the Indianapolis 500 like Charles had insisted. It stood for "IN," the official post office abbreviation for the Hoosier State. First thing in the morning, when the doors reopened, she needed to search through the Dewey

他和三个兄弟共用的双层床。 在一张下铺旁边有一个用塑料牛奶箱做成的书架。 它就在那里，和其他大概三十多本薄薄的、硬纸板封面的图画书放在一起。 海莉撬开了盖子。 她迅速地把一张四乘四的艺术卡片对折起来，塞进了她的运动鞋里，上面有她的“土匪”线索。 因为现在她非常肯定，在这栋楼还是银行的时候，“强盗”曾在某个时候“爬进”过这栋楼。 印第安纳州的轮廓并不像查尔斯坚持的那样代表印第安纳波利斯500。 它代表“IN”，这是印第安纳州官方邮局的缩写。 早上开门后的第一件事就是，她要在杜威书店里找一找