Review: Book Scavenger

Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book! Best suited for grades 5-7. Rebecca Caudill 2018 nominee.

Book Scavenger is book 1 in the series. The book did start out a little slow, but with a nice introduction to the characters.

Emily's family moves around a lot! So much that her parents have started a blog entitled 50 homes in 50 states. Emily and her brother, Matthew, have learned to be adaptable and go with the flow. With her brother's obsession with the band Flush, he always seems to find a group of friends to connect to when they move. Emily is a bit of a loner and reads. One thing she has that can take her no matter where she is moves is the Book Scavenger game. An online game that can be played in any state because people are constantly hiding books and offering clues to scavengers to find them. Scavengers can find and hide books and will receive points.

Emily starts to become friendly with her neighbor James and an instant friendship is developed. James also likes logic puzzles so he is interested in the book scavenger game too. When Emily wants to take James to find a book, that's when the real adventure begins. Emily finds a book she believes someone has meant to hide, but it is actually a book that Book Scavenger creator, Mr. Griswold loses when someone tries to mug him in the subway station.

Emily and James don't realize the danger they could be in by having this book. Instead they discover they are part of a game Mr. Griswold has created - his newest game yet!

A book too fun to pass up. I'm looking forward to book 2 - The Unbreakable Code.

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