For boys and girls who love Minecraft, a graphic novel adventure that uses over 750 images to transport young readers into the world of the game they love most.
Winter has come to Redstone Junior High once again, and with it comes holiday celebrations, snowball combat practice, and loads of outdoor fun. But even though the threat of Smite and his henchmen has passed, a new, sinister force lurks in the dark hallways of the school. Strange blocks begin to appear in random places throughout the school, and students have been hearing eerie sounds coming from its abandoned corridors. Pixel, Sky, and Umal team up to figure out what’s tormenting their school and why.
To make matters worse, Tina and her followers are determined to work against Pixel. What follows is a griefing war that spares no one—not even the teachers or Principal Redstone. As the kids discover more about the lanky creatures who are terrorizing their school, it becomes painfully clear that they must put aside their differences to unite against a common enemy. Will a mob invasion actually bring the students together, or will Redstone Junior High remain haunted forever?
I have wanted to be a writer since I was four years old and fell in love with reading. I wrote stories and songs and poems. I wrote plays and scribbled thoughts and ideas in notebooks. I wrote when I was supposed to be doing sports, and sometimes I wrote under the covers by flashlight when I was supposed to be asleep in bed.
I got my first big break writing stories for Sesame Street video games. Then I helped design and create video games based on books, like Bruce Coville's My Teacher is an Alien and Roxie Munro's Inside Outside World. I got my big break when Byron Preiss commissioned me to write my first novel, Dragon School. I felt like the luckiest person in the world because I got to live my dream! That was 20 years ago! Since then, I've written many more books. I write about Paw Patrol, SpongeBob Squarepants, Mickey Mouse and Bubble Guppies for little kids. I write about Fortnite, Minecraft and Terraria video games for bigger kids. I also get to write about cool trends like Fidget Spinners, the K-Pop band BTS, how to record your family history, and a guide to playing Pokemon Go!
None of what I do would be possible without encouragement from my family and friends, the love and support of my amazing husband, guidance from all the fantastic editors, publishers and illustrators I work with, and of course letters and notes from readers like you!
I liked it but I was confused at times, in the end they just SUDDENLY WIN after all their attempts they just do it, if you like the series you should read to to know what happens but it isn't the best.
It kind of feels like Stevens is phoning it in by this fourth book, as the story line veers from the principal acting strangely (as always) to dealing with the Endermen to an extended prank war, ending in the plot petering out without much tension. In the middle of the book the Endermen are blasting basically everyone, but at the end they get annoyed and yet don't try to do anything to the people annoying them. In any case, my 8-year-old enjoyed it and is excited to continue with the series, and the book is at the perfect reading level for them, so I'm not going to complain too much.