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    Trouble On Planet Earth

    Part of Choose Your Own Adventure

    Author R. A. Montgomery
    Illustrated by Mariano Trod, Claudio Griglio
    Cover Design or Artwork by Marco Cannella
    Paperback
    $7.99 US
    Choose Your Own Adventure
    4.25"W x 6.94"H x 0.39"D  
    On sale May 01, 2006 | 144 Pages | 9781933390116
    Grades 4-7
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    Save the world from imminent doom in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 22 possible endings!

    Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are back and as much fun as you remember. Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

    YOU and your magical brother are tasked with figuring out who is responsible for the diminishing oil levels on Earth. Could it be an evil multinational organization? A rogue government body? Or could it be someone—or something—completely otherworldly that is siphoning oil through laser straws?! More than just the planet's weather and resources are at stake! Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.
    R. A. MONTGOMERY attended Hopkins Grammar School, Williston-Northampton School and Williams College where he graduated in 1958. He pursued graduate studies in Religion and Economics at Yale and NYU. Montgomery was an adventurer all his life, climbing mountains in the Himalaya, skiing throughout Europe and scuba-diving wherever he could. His interests included education, macro-economics, geo-politics, mythology, history, mystery novels and music. He wrote his first interactive book, Journey Under the Sea, in 1976 and published it under the series name The Adventures of You. A few years later Bantam Books bought this book and gave Montgomery a contract for five more, to inaugurate their new children's publishing division. Bantam renamed the series Choose Your Own Adventure and a publishing phenomenon was born. The series has sold more than 260 million copies in over 40 languages. He was married to the writer Shannon Gilligan. Montgomery died in November 2014, only two months after his last book was published.
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    Save the world from imminent doom in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 22 possible endings!

    Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are back and as much fun as you remember. Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

    YOU and your magical brother are tasked with figuring out who is responsible for the diminishing oil levels on Earth. Could it be an evil multinational organization? A rogue government body? Or could it be someone—or something—completely otherworldly that is siphoning oil through laser straws?! More than just the planet's weather and resources are at stake! Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

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    R. A. MONTGOMERY attended Hopkins Grammar School, Williston-Northampton School and Williams College where he graduated in 1958. He pursued graduate studies in Religion and Economics at Yale and NYU. Montgomery was an adventurer all his life, climbing mountains in the Himalaya, skiing throughout Europe and scuba-diving wherever he could. His interests included education, macro-economics, geo-politics, mythology, history, mystery novels and music. He wrote his first interactive book, Journey Under the Sea, in 1976 and published it under the series name The Adventures of You. A few years later Bantam Books bought this book and gave Montgomery a contract for five more, to inaugurate their new children's publishing division. Bantam renamed the series Choose Your Own Adventure and a publishing phenomenon was born. The series has sold more than 260 million copies in over 40 languages. He was married to the writer Shannon Gilligan. Montgomery died in November 2014, only two months after his last book was published.
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