The Lake Monster Mystery

Illustrated by Keith Newton
Cover Design or Artwork by Keith Newton
Choose from 9 possible endings in this interactive book from the bestselling Choose Your Own Adventure series, now for 5- to 8-year-old readers!

Filled with colorful illustrations, these books for little kids make reading together extra fun. But be careful!!! The choices YOU make might put you face to face with a goddess who lives in the lake.

When YOU discover an old, mysterious box, you and your sister start your search for Champ, the legendary lake monster who lives in Lake Champlain. Is the box a clue to finding Champ? Or a trick to throw you off the case? You might be the very first explorer to snap photos of the mythical beast, maneuver choppy waters on board a wobbly canoe, and brave a haunted house!
Shannon Gilligan began writing fiction for a living after graduating from Williams College in 1981. She has written over fifteen books for children, including eleven in the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She spent a decade working on story-based computer games in the 1990s. Gilligan’s day job is publisher of Chooseco. She lives in Warren, Vermont but travels widely. She recently took up surfing.
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Choose from 9 possible endings in this interactive book from the bestselling Choose Your Own Adventure series, now for 5- to 8-year-old readers!

Filled with colorful illustrations, these books for little kids make reading together extra fun. But be careful!!! The choices YOU make might put you face to face with a goddess who lives in the lake.

When YOU discover an old, mysterious box, you and your sister start your search for Champ, the legendary lake monster who lives in Lake Champlain. Is the box a clue to finding Champ? Or a trick to throw you off the case? You might be the very first explorer to snap photos of the mythical beast, maneuver choppy waters on board a wobbly canoe, and brave a haunted house!

Author

Shannon Gilligan began writing fiction for a living after graduating from Williams College in 1981. She has written over fifteen books for children, including eleven in the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She spent a decade working on story-based computer games in the 1990s. Gilligan’s day job is publisher of Chooseco. She lives in Warren, Vermont but travels widely. She recently took up surfing.

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