Escape

Escape by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU on an adventure to an alternate, near-distant dystopian universe in the future. 9-12 year old readers will take on a secret spy mission to Dorado, the repressive police state that now occupies New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. Escape is a companion book to Beyond Escape! Choose Your Own Adventure Escape is an interactive adventure book in which YOU decide what happens next. You have recently returned from a top-secret spy operation fighting to topple the so-called democracy in power. Your mission requires you to get information to the revolutionary leaders in Denver. If you don't make it, thousands of lives will be at risk. Should you brave the trip? Is your life worth possibly sacrificing for the greater good, and the promise of freedom?

Raymond A. Montgomery is the founder of the Choose Your Own Adventure interactive children's book series. Montgomery synthesized all of his varied educational and game theory work in the Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) series, first published by Bantam Books in 1979. The series grew into a publishing phenomenon with over 180 titles and 250 million copies published worldwide in over 35 languages. The books were unique in that they appealed equally to girls and boys, to reluctant readers and avid ones. The CYOA series has been used in classrooms from early elementary school to college. At the a

"THE YEAR IS 2045. CIVIL WARS AND FOREIGN ATTACKS HAVE SPLIT THE U.S. INTO THREE HOSTILE POLITICAL AREAS. CAN YOU MAKE IT HOME FROM YOUR SECRET MISSION IN TIME TO HELP? A once-proud country governed by freedom is torn apart. One section, Dorado, dominates the others with harsh police-state tactics. You are from Turtalia, a new democracy, and you are returning there with important information about Doradan's plans to invade. Two others, Matt and Mimla, join you in escaping to Turtalia. The Doradan underground has helped the three of you get as far as Albuquerque, but now you are on your own. "They're closing in on us," Matt says tensely. "I can feel it." There is no sign of the Secret Police on the horizon; but you know they could appear at any moment. They are relentless killers. If you decide to follow Matt's suggestion to return to town to avoid capture, turn to page 10. YOU choose what happens next!

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