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The Crawl Space - Interactive Anti-Bully Novel 24 choices and 11
alternate endings Bullying is receiving a lot of attention in the
media, but it's never had the repercussions that middle school
bullies Bruce, Mark, and Charles will face. Trapped in a haunted
school as their punishment, these bullies find their fates in the
hands of their readers in Arthur M. Mills, Jr.'s children's novel
"The Crawl Space." Read The Crawl Space if you... * Like
interactive stories * Want to get revenge on bullies * Enjoy scary
children stories * Want to increase your reading ability * Like
illustrated books (85 illustrations) *** Storyline *** Bruce, Mark,
and Charles have long been the school bullies, tormenting younger
and weaker kids. But they go too far the day they try to make their
fellow student, Johnny, enter the dreaded crawl space under the
school cafeteria's stage. Everyone knows the crawl space is haunted
by a boy who entered it and never returned, and Johnny is
terrified. But fortunately, the school principal catches the boys
before it's too late. As punishment, she offers them the choice of
notes to their parents or spending the weekend cleaning out the
crawl space. More scared of their parents than the rumor of a
ghost, they choose the latter. But once they are alone in the
school, the boys discover that not only is the crawl space haunted,
but so is the rest of the school. When the ghost gives the boys a
riddle to solve, they must make many difficult choices to ensure
their survival. However, the reader gets to participate in making
these choices, which range from which hallway to go down to which
key to use to open a mysterious box. Whether the boys survive their
punishment is as much the reader's responsibility as it is that of
the boys' themselves, but just as the boys can't control the
supernatural events happening to them, even the reader won't be
able to control the storyline completely. *** Why did Mills write
The Crawl Space? *** Mills decided to write a book where the
readers get to make the choices because in his youth, he didn't
like adults making decisions for him. He tried to escape into the
world of books, only to find authors were just as controlling as
the adults in his life. Now that he is an author, he has vowed to
let readers have control of the story. In "The Crawl Space,"
readers have up to twenty-four choices and eleven possible endings
to choose. In addition, over eighty-five exciting illustrations
accompany the stories, representing every supernatural, terrifying,
and bizarre experience the main characters endure before their
weekend in a haunted middle school comes to an end. *** What are
the professionals saying? *** Destined to please adults and kids
alike, "The Crawl Space" is a hit among all generations. Tyler R.
Tichelaar, author of the award-winning "Narrow Lives" states,
"Branching Plot Books are as much fun as the Choose Your Own
Adventure books from when I was a kid. Beyond being a great
adventure story, 'The Crawl Space' teaches readers lessons about
bullying and friendship and the difficult choices we all have to
make in life." Get your copy today
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