Escape from a Video Game
The Secret of Phantom Island
Dustin Brady author Jesse Brady illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published:1st Oct '20
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Perfect for kids who love video games, escape rooms, and choose-your-own-adventure stories, the Escape from a Video Game middle grade series transforms reading into a thrilling screen-free gaming experience.
What if you could actually play a video game inside a book?
In Escape from a Video Game: The Secret of Phantom Island, YOU control the action in an interactive middle-grade adventure packed with puzzles, hidden clues, dangerous choices, and more than 30 possible endings.
You are Cooper Hawke, a treasure hunter exploring the legendary Phantom Island—a mysterious game world that was never officially released. As you battle giant creatures, escape deadly traps, solve puzzles, and uncover secret areas of the island, every decision you make changes the story.
Choose wisely. One wrong move could send you back to a checkpoint—or lead to total game over.
With branching storylines, hidden achievements, and unlockable bonus content, Escape from a Video Game delivers hours of replayable adventure while encouraging problem-solving, critical thinking, and independent reading.
Why kids and parents love this interactive adventure
- Choose-your-own-adventure format with 30+ endings
- Perfect for gamers, puzzle lovers, and reluctant readers
- Packed with action, humor, survival challenges, and mysteries
- Encourages critical thinking and decision-making skills
- Interactive clues, puzzles, and hidden secrets throughout
- Screen-free entertainment that feels like playing a video game
- Great for middle-grade readers ages 8-10
- High replay value encourages kids to read again and again
Perfect for readers who enjoy
- Video game books for kids
- Escape-room style puzzles and challenges
- Interactive fiction and branching adventures
- Treasure hunts and survival missions
- Minecraft-style adventure stories
- Fast-paced books with nonstop action
Whether your child already loves reading or just needs the right book to get started, The Secret of Phantom Island delivers an immersive adventure that turns reading into a game kids will want to play again and again.
Start the adventure and see if you can escape Phantom Island.
"Folks, let me tell you, this book is ridiculously fun. Like, it's WAY better than it has any right to be. I read it aloud to my 9-year-old son at bedtime, letting him make all the choices and solve all the puzzles. Not only was he asking for more each night... but I was all too happy to oblige! The choices, puzzles, items, plot twists, and boss battles you encounter in the book are straight out of a classic platformer, and Brady does an amazing job at making the book feel like a game." (Jamie Greene, The Roarbots)
“An engrossing ride for die-hard ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ fans and video game devotees.” (Sarah Webb, School Library Journal)
Dustin Brady's books are a treasure for anyone who is struggling with a reluctant reader. The writing is fun and extremely engaging. As an educational therapist, I work with reluctant readers all the time, and I have had so much success using his books to teach not only fundamental decoding skills but also comprehension. The greatest gift you can give a child is to foster the love of learning, and Dustin Brady has been able to do that with countless children. (Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., CEO and Educational Therapist at My Ed Therapist)
ISBN: 9781524858803
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
Weight: 290g
176 pages