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Escape from a Video Game

The Complete Series
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Escape from a Video Game by Dustin Brady is an exciting adventure for children, featuring a protagonist who gets trapped inside a video game. The story follows the character's journey through various game levels, where they face numerous challenges and puzzles to find a way out. This book combines humour, suspense, and creativity, offering young readers an interactive and engaging experience.
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You might enjoy this book if you're a fan of adventure and interactive storytelling, especially if you love the thrill of having choices that affect the outcome. It's perfect for young readers who have a passion for video games and are interested in an engaging, fast-paced narrative filled with excitement and clever twists.

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This box set is the only way to own the complete Escape from a Video Game series plus The Lost Files, an exclusive bonus adventure! Each pick-your-plot story drops young readers into a different video game to defeat monsters, solve mysteries, and outsmart supervillains.

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This box set is the only way to own the complete Escape from a Video Game series plus The Lost Files, an exclusive bonus adventure! Each pick-your-plot story drops young readers into a different video game to defeat monsters, solve mysteries, and outsmart supervillains.

The follow-up to the bestselling Trapped in a Video Game series puts the controller in your hands. Choose where to explore, when to attack, and who to trust as you uncover the secrets buried deep within each game. Once you finish the three main adventures, check out The Lost Files, in-print and illustrated for the first time, for one final showdown with the ultimate villain.

Book One: The Secret of Phantom Island

Trek to a mysterious island as Cooper Hawke, the greatest treasure hunter the world has ever known. As you battle strange creatures, solve ancient puzzles, and unlock hidden areas, you’ll discover that Phantom Island is keeping secrets far more sinister than anyone could have imagined.

Book Two: Mystery on the Starship Crusader

Join eight strangers inside of a video game for a chance to win a million dollars. Survive to the end, and you’re rich. There’s just one problem: a traitor is hiding among your group. This whodunnit space adventure is perfect for fans of Among Us.

Book Three: The Endgame

One hundred villains will enter Grim Island, but only one will be crowned the Greatest Supervillain of All Time. Will it be you? Fortnite fans will fall in love with this battle royale adventure’s frenetic pace and quirky humour.

Bonus Book: The Lost Files

The Lost Files unlocks each book’s secret adventure to take you on a wild ride that leads to the ultimate villain of the series. This newly illustrated collection of stories, previously only available online, provides a satisfying conclusion to the Escape from a Video Game saga.

From Dustin Brady, author of the bestselling Trapped in a Video Game series, Escape from a Video Game is an interactive adventure series that promises hours of screen-free fun for kids aged 9-12 who like to play video games… and may not realise yet that they also like to read.

Series: Escape from a Video Game

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781524876067

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 December 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Jesse Brady

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 48.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 1368g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Dustin Brady writes funny, action-packed books for kids. Although he regularly gets locked out of his own accounts for forgetting passwords, Dustin still remembers theΒ Super Mario Bros. 3 game genie code for infinite lives. It’s SLXPLOVS. Dustin lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife, kids, and a small dog named Nugget.

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