Decide & Survive: Agent 355

Lindsay's Review 

At last, a new series of children’s 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books are here. This genre is always popular with the kids, and this new series is no exception. Based on historical narratives, these romping adventures allow the reader to create their own stories as they must choose their action at the bottom of each page: in Agent 355, set in New York, you are a spy for Washington in the American revolution against the British, and must warn Washington of an impending assassination attempt. In The Attack on Pearl Harbour, set in 1941, tough decisions must be made as to fight or flight, stay hidden or rescue your half-Japanese classmates. Will you survive? You decide!

These books are a brilliant way to get kids reading that won't make them feel like they are slogging cover-to-cover through some endless tome. Furthermore, they can read and re-read multiple times as the adventures often come to an unexpected end. Hours of fun for all types of kids, with a bit of history thrown in.

Upcoming titles include Choose Your Own Evolution; Black Beards Wrath; Destruction of Pompeii; The Battle of Gettysburg; Deep Space Danger.

Publisher's Review 

A fast-paced, interactive adventure series for kids, featuring death-defying moments in history! This book features Agent 355, a female spy during the American Revolution.

Agent 355 was one of the first spies for the United States. While the true identity of 355 remains unknown, here, young readers make decisions and determine their own survival by joining secret Agent 355 as the intrepid and brave American patriot spy. Along the way, readers can choose to thwart a counterfeiting scheme, warn General Washington of an assassination plot, or even save the day with Harry Potter's 11" wand. The sky's the limit with your historical imagination! Don't forget: YOU, the reader, are in the driver's seat!

This time it's 1777 in Long Island, New York, and you're Myrtle Henderson's eleven-year-old niece. Stunned to discover your recently deceased mother was a member of the Culper Ring!, a group of spies so secret they don't even know each other! With each page turn YOU decide which way the story unravels.

This book like no other to be used in a variety of ways challenges puzzle-solving readers and ignites a love of history for life. The perfect gift or educational book, slyly written as an interactive narrative adventure, will delight and enthrall avid and reluctant readers with its energy and excitement.

As an added educational bonus, extensive backmatter includes a timeline, information about the lives of women in the American Revolution, and details about the real Agent 355 and the Culper code book.

About the Decide & Survive series: Your Call to Adventure! Dear Reader, this is your story. You control how history happens through the choices you make. Don't read this book from the first page to the last. Instead, follow the directions at the bottom of each page. When you're offered options, choose wisely because your decision could end in disaster as easily as triumph. No matter how your story ends, feel free to start over and create a different story with a new outcome. Adventure, mystery, danger, and fortune await. Good luck!