"If this is an adventure, we should just plunge in..."
When thirteen-year-old cousins Ivan and Daphne go on a treasure hunt in the rain one summer day, they never expect to stumble into a whole new world where words and numbers run wild.
After the cousins outwit a plague of punctuation, grateful villagers beg them to find Lexicon's missing children, who have been enticed away by dancing lights in the sky. Trekking between villages in search of clues, the cousins encounter a talking thesaurus, a fog of forgetting, the Mistress of Metaphor, a panel of poets, feuding parts of speech, and the illogical mathematicians of Irrationality. When a careless Mathemystical reflects them across the border into the ominous Land of Night, their peril deepens. Kidnapped, imprisoned, and mesmerized—with time running out—will Ivan and Daphne find a way to solve the mystery of the lights in the sky and restore the lost children of Lexicon to their homes?
Lost in Lexicon will whisk children away into an interactive and magical world of learning.
1 of 1 copy available
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Release date
August 9, 2011 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780983021933
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780983021933
- File size: 5626 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 4.9
- Lexile® Measure: 730
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 3
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Reviews
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August 1, 2011
Gr 5-8-Cousins Ivan and Daphne are spending the summer with their Aunt Adelaide, a former children's librarian who plies them with books and puzzles and frowns on television and video games. When these 13-year-old couch potatoes finally succumb to boredom, she locks them out of the house with an anagram to solve. This mystery leads them through the barn window into a world called Lexicon, ruled by an algebraic polarity and beset by strange grammatical problems all relating to mysterious pixel shows in the night sky. But the worst problem facing Lexicon is the disappearance of all the children, lured away to the city of Origin by these same lights, and the teens are charged with tracking them down. Their climactic encounters in Origin-where they discover that the children are being educated for the betterment of society with the most advanced technological methods-challenge them to "Look. Think. Ask." An engaging and original narrative is the main strength of this series opener. Math and grammar concepts are nicely integrated. Noyce keeps up the pace by limiting descriptive passages but offers little character introduction. Ivan and Daphne do grow over the course of their quest, finding strength in their ability to tackle subjects that once overwhelmed them and working as a team to solve each mathematical and linguistic puzzle. Well-imagined illustrations help bring the pair to life. A none-too-subtle critique of popular culture and a narrative riddled with challenging concepts will deter some readers, but Lexicon will have its following among advanced students. Persistent readers will be rewarded with a good adventure, affecting lyrical passages, and thought-provoking questions relevant to our own society.-Jayne Damron, Farmington Community Library, MI
Copyright 2011 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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