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YOU VS The Poison Plot

A Choose Your Path Mystery for fans of interactive adventures like Cluedle, Murdle Junior and gamer kids age 9, 10, 11, 12
By Josh Hicks
Series: YOU VS
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Can YOU solve the case? Choose your suspect, choose your next move – choose the story!YOU VS is a series of interactive adventure stories where the reader gets to choose what happens next! Full of maps, diagrams and illustrations, YOU VS gives readers the chance to... Read More
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Can YOU solve the case? Choose your suspect, choose your next move – choose the story!

YOU VS is a series of interactive adventure stories where the reader gets to choose what happens next! Full of maps, diagrams and illustrations, YOU VS gives readers the chance to star in their own stories: big genre adventures with huge stakes, real heart and a sense of humour. Oh, and lots and lots of endings.

In YOU VS The Poison Plot, it’s the eve of the school talent show, but the school’s drama teacher has suddenly collapsed with four witnesses at his side! As editor of the school newspaper and a seasoned journalist, you investigate – and smell foul play. You’ve got ‘til tomorrow’s show to follow your nose and unravel the mystery…

Perfect for fans of Cluedle and Murdle Junior as well as The Boy With Big Decisions, this first book in the series is an attempted-murder mystery where YOU get to solve the case!

Series: YOU VS

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  • YOU VS The Poison Plot
    Can YOU solve the case? Choose your suspect, choose your next move – choose the story!YOU VS is a series of interactive adventure stories where the reader gets to choose what happens next! Full of maps, diagrams and illustrations, YOU VS gives readers the chance to star in their own stories: big genre adventures with huge stakes, real heart and...
    By Josh Hicks
    Paperback
    $1899
    Elsewhere:
    $1999
    Available
    Ships in 4-6 weeks
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    YOU VS The Galactic Pirates is an interactive space adventure. It’s not a story to be read, but a mystery to be solved, an adventure to be had... by you! The story so far: You've won an all-expenses-paid experience aboard the greatest spaceship in the galaxy – until space-scurvied Galactic Pirates storm the ship, abduct the crew and the famous...
    By Josh Hicks
    Paperback
    $1899
    Pre-order
    Out 1 Feb 2027

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529527193

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 February 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Walker Books Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Josh Hicks

Audience: General / adult, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 224

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Crime & Thriller Diary of a Wimpy Kid General Fiction Josh Hicks Series: YOU VS Young Adult Young Adult Mystery & Thriller

About the Author

Josh Hicks is a writer and illustrator based in Cardiff. He has published two graphic novels, Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Ultimate Championship Edition and Hotelitor, both with Lerner and distributed in the UK by Bounce. He is in the process of writing and illustrating a trilogy of MG graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics based on the video game Minecraft, with the first instalment due for release in summer 2025. Josh has also co-directed music videos for Foo Fighters, directed Bill Nighy and Craig Roberts in the animated film Spectre of the Bear, and served as the co-designer and illustrator of the card game Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Ultrabrawl, published by Tinkerbot Games.

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