Murder at the Old Willow Boarding School

Illustrated by Gabhor Utomo
Cover Design or Artwork by Brian Anderson
Solve your own murder in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 23 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are now available with even more pages, choices, and mystery for 10- to 12-year-old readers.

You go to breakfast with your friends and feel strangely alone. No one looks at you and no one is answering your questions. It's not until you hear a scream, rush to the library and find the sight of your lifeless body that you have a chilling realization … YOU ARE DEAD. Now, you must figure out which of your classmates can and can't be trusted and who among the students at this academy for gifted children is behind such an awful crime. As you investigate, you begin to suspect the killer plans to strike again. The search for your murderer turns into a quest to prevent another killing. You won’t make it out alive, but maybe your classmates will?
Jessika Fleck is a writer, unapologetic coffee drinker, and knitter who sincerely hopes to one day discover a way to do all three at once. Until then, she continues collecting vintage typewriters, dreaming of an Icelandic getaway, and working as an archivist at an old, probably haunted, research building. She has lived all over the U.S. from Hawaii to Vermont, but currently lives in Illinois, where she's learning to appreciate the beauty in cornfields and terrifyingly large cicadas. She resides there with her sociology professor husband, two very cool teenage kids, and a mini menagerie of pets. She is the author of Beware the Night, Defy the Sun, The Castaways, and Molly and the Twin Towers: a 9/11Survival Story.
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Solve your own murder in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 23 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are now available with even more pages, choices, and mystery for 10- to 12-year-old readers.

You go to breakfast with your friends and feel strangely alone. No one looks at you and no one is answering your questions. It's not until you hear a scream, rush to the library and find the sight of your lifeless body that you have a chilling realization … YOU ARE DEAD. Now, you must figure out which of your classmates can and can't be trusted and who among the students at this academy for gifted children is behind such an awful crime. As you investigate, you begin to suspect the killer plans to strike again. The search for your murderer turns into a quest to prevent another killing. You won’t make it out alive, but maybe your classmates will?

Author

Jessika Fleck is a writer, unapologetic coffee drinker, and knitter who sincerely hopes to one day discover a way to do all three at once. Until then, she continues collecting vintage typewriters, dreaming of an Icelandic getaway, and working as an archivist at an old, probably haunted, research building. She has lived all over the U.S. from Hawaii to Vermont, but currently lives in Illinois, where she's learning to appreciate the beauty in cornfields and terrifyingly large cicadas. She resides there with her sociology professor husband, two very cool teenage kids, and a mini menagerie of pets. She is the author of Beware the Night, Defy the Sun, The Castaways, and Molly and the Twin Towers: a 9/11Survival Story.

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