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  • Published: 28 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760892371
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $14.99

You Choose 1: The Treasure of Dead Man's Cove




A brand-new series of interactive novels for the highly adventurous. Read if you dare! Mistakes will cost you dearly!

YOU CHOOSE . . .

Wealth beyond your wildest dreams or deadly pirate's curse!

You find an old map while holidaying in a secluded seaside town. It is said to have belonged to the fiercest pirate of them all – One-Eyed William, who was buried with his treasure. Could it be real, or is it someone's idea of a joke? You set off to follow the map to find out . . .

Will you uncover the treasure of Dead Man's Cove, or will you be destined for doom?

WINNER, Young Australian Best Books Award (YABBA) - Younger Readers category, 2015

  • Published: 28 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760892371
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $14.99

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About the author

George Ivanoff

George Ivanoff is a Melbourne author who’s written more than 100 books for kids and teens, including the middle-grade novel Monster Island, the interactive You Choose series, the non-fiction Survival Guides, the RFDS Adventures and the Other Worlds series.

As a child, George loved reading interactive books, where he got to make decisions about the direction of the story. He has had more fun plotting and writing the You Choose books than pretty much anything else. Writing the Survival Guides has indulged his curiosity, interest in research and desire to learn new things. And writing the RFDS Adventures has opened his eyes to the amazing work done by the Royal Flying Doctor Service. With Monster Island, George got to indulge his childhood fascination for dinosaurs in a rollicking science fiction adventure full of monsters, mushrooms and mysteries.

George’s books and stories have been shortlisted for numerous awards and he’s won two YABBA Awards for his You Choose books.

George drinks too much coffee, eats too much chocolate and watches too much Doctor Who. He has one wife, two children and an uncontrollable imagination.

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Praise for You Choose 1: The Treasure of Dead Man's Cove

The books are fast paced, well written and place the reader smack bang in the middle of the action and able to make all the decisions about where to next. Young readers who love a good adventure/action series will love reading the ‘You Choose’ series once, twice and a third time, and I can also think of several reluctant readers who will be totally engaged.

Megan Daley, Children's Books Daily

This is a good book for adventurous landlubbers. You never read the same book twice!

Josh Desmond, Townsville Bulletin

So glad this format is back on the reading agenda of the young readers in my life.

Barbara Braxton, OZTL_NET
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