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Pick Your Own Quest: Escape From Minecraft
You're stuck inside Minecraft…and every decision counts!
One moment you drink a mysterious potion—next thing you know, you're inside the blocky world of Minecraft! Creepers are creeping, zombies are groaning, and you’re definitely not in your living room anymore. But don’t panic (yet)! In this adventure, you control what happens next.
Will you run for shelter or battle mobs with a loaf of bread? Build a temple, team up with a friendly pig, or take your chances in a lava-filled cave? Dig straight down (gasp!) or build your way to safety? Every page offers a choice, and every choice could lead to safety, danger…or total disaster. With over 30 different endings, no two adventures are the same.
Perfect for Minecraft fans who love excitement, surprises, and making their own way through the story. Read the book again and again to unlock every wild and hilarious ending. Great for reluctant readers and gaming fans alike!
Can you escape Minecraft to find the right path home—or wind up in even more trouble? There’s only one way to find out.
This is the first of 3 Minecraft Pick Your Own Quest® adventure books, each with over 30 possible endings!
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Pick Your Own Quest ® books are Interactive Adventures aimed to make reading fun! Each book is an adventure where YOU are the hero of the story! You make the choices, you have the adventures, and only when you reach one of the 30+ endings, will you know how those choices turn out. Not happy with the ending? Go back to the beginning and try again!
Perfect for read-alouds, independent reading, road trips, and date nights (older readers only!), each Pick Your Own Quest ® book is like a game in a book, sure to provide hours and hours of fun, keeping kids (and readers of all ages) coming back for more.
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BOOKS IN THE PICK YOUR OWN QUEST
King Tut's Adventure
Escape From Minecraft
Return to Minecraft
Minecraft The End
Trapped in a Fairy Tale
Dragon vs. Unicorn
Alice in Wonderland
Trapped in the 80s
Medusa’s Head
Journey to the Center of the Earth
You Are A Unicorn
Robot vs. Dinosaur
The “Comic” Con Comes Alive
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Princess vs. Pirate
Puppy Detective
Space Scavenger Hunt
Castle of Doom
Supreme Ruler of Everything Cooler
Jungle of the Killer Avocados
Temple of the Water Dragon
Raptors in the Ranchland
BOOKS IN THE “WRITE YOUR OWN” WRITING BOOKS FOR KIDS
Write Your Own Quest
Write Your Own Myth
One moment you drink a mysterious potion—next thing you know, you're inside the blocky world of Minecraft! Creepers are creeping, zombies are groaning, and you’re definitely not in your living room anymore. But don’t panic (yet)! In this adventure, you control what happens next.
Will you run for shelter or battle mobs with a loaf of bread? Build a temple, team up with a friendly pig, or take your chances in a lava-filled cave? Dig straight down (gasp!) or build your way to safety? Every page offers a choice, and every choice could lead to safety, danger…or total disaster. With over 30 different endings, no two adventures are the same.
Perfect for Minecraft fans who love excitement, surprises, and making their own way through the story. Read the book again and again to unlock every wild and hilarious ending. Great for reluctant readers and gaming fans alike!
Can you escape Minecraft to find the right path home—or wind up in even more trouble? There’s only one way to find out.
This is the first of 3 Minecraft Pick Your Own Quest® adventure books, each with over 30 possible endings!
***
Pick Your Own Quest ® books are Interactive Adventures aimed to make reading fun! Each book is an adventure where YOU are the hero of the story! You make the choices, you have the adventures, and only when you reach one of the 30+ endings, will you know how those choices turn out. Not happy with the ending? Go back to the beginning and try again!
Perfect for read-alouds, independent reading, road trips, and date nights (older readers only!), each Pick Your Own Quest ® book is like a game in a book, sure to provide hours and hours of fun, keeping kids (and readers of all ages) coming back for more.
***
BOOKS IN THE PICK YOUR OWN QUEST
King Tut's Adventure
Escape From Minecraft
Return to Minecraft
Minecraft The End
Trapped in a Fairy Tale
Dragon vs. Unicorn
Alice in Wonderland
Trapped in the 80s
Medusa’s Head
Journey to the Center of the Earth
You Are A Unicorn
Robot vs. Dinosaur
The “Comic” Con Comes Alive
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Princess vs. Pirate
Puppy Detective
Space Scavenger Hunt
Castle of Doom
Supreme Ruler of Everything Cooler
Jungle of the Killer Avocados
Temple of the Water Dragon
Raptors in the Ranchland
BOOKS IN THE “WRITE YOUR OWN” WRITING BOOKS FOR KIDS
Write Your Own Quest
Write Your Own Myth
- GenresChildrens
120 pages, Paperback
Published April 29, 2018
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August 15, 2023
I hate it
Please make it more kid friendly and also the soul sand sand thing was so creepy just four more words
Please make it more kid friendly and also the soul sand sand thing was so creepy just four more words
April 21, 2020
I love this book! And I also love Minecraft.
I love this book. I also love minecraft so it is perfect. I also love to adventure in minecraft so I might read it a lot again.
I love this book. I also love minecraft so it is perfect. I also love to adventure in minecraft so I might read it a lot again.
February 5, 2025
SUMMARY: (SPOILER WARNING)
Told from the perspective of a Minecraft player who inadvertently finds himself sucked into the game, you must make choices to survive and find your way out.
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UPDATED REVIEW (2/5/2025):
UPDATED RATING (4 STARS)
I re-read this (with a different outcome) with my son tonight. And my son has been reading this book on his own all day long, going through multiple different choices. He's absolutely thrilled and excited about it, talking about it constantly and all the different adventures he went on.
So I want to increase my rating for it. It's got him really excited about reading and I absolutely love that. He normally likes to read, but I feel like this has made him love it even more.
I still think it's kind of morbid that you can just die or never end up back at home. But I can't fault it too much because it's gotten my son so excited to read more. But hopefully at least ONE of the outcomes has us actually escaping Minecraft! lol
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ORIGINAL REVIEW (2/4/2025):
ORIGINAL RATING (3 STARS)
My son (well, all my kids) are huge Minecraft fans. So for my son's birthday I picked this one up for us to read together. It's setup like the classic Choose Your Own Adventure books, which is really fun and nostalgic for me because I read a lot of those as a kid (and a few as an adult).
We read this through once so far and there are 30 possible endings, so we only got one so far.
It was an enjoyable experience and my son loved being able to choose what we do next. Each choice is about a 2 page read, so it's fairly quick, depending on what choices you make.
The one problem I had with it is that the ending we got was that we died. Now, considering a real person was sucked into the game, this is kind of morbid to me. I would've much preferred for each ending (whether we die or not) to end up with us waking up and being back in the real world. It makes you wonder what happened in real life? Is the character just gone? Kind of sad to me.
Still, my son loved it and he was already talking about what choices he wants to try differently next time. So I'm sure we will read this more.
I'm really regretting getting rid of my huge Choose Your Own Adventure book collection because I think that would've been fun to read with him.
Overall a nice modern take on the classic. Looking forward to reading this one again.
Told from the perspective of a Minecraft player who inadvertently finds himself sucked into the game, you must make choices to survive and find your way out.
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UPDATED REVIEW (2/5/2025):
UPDATED RATING (4 STARS)
I re-read this (with a different outcome) with my son tonight. And my son has been reading this book on his own all day long, going through multiple different choices. He's absolutely thrilled and excited about it, talking about it constantly and all the different adventures he went on.
So I want to increase my rating for it. It's got him really excited about reading and I absolutely love that. He normally likes to read, but I feel like this has made him love it even more.
I still think it's kind of morbid that you can just die or never end up back at home. But I can't fault it too much because it's gotten my son so excited to read more. But hopefully at least ONE of the outcomes has us actually escaping Minecraft! lol
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ORIGINAL REVIEW (2/4/2025):
ORIGINAL RATING (3 STARS)
My son (well, all my kids) are huge Minecraft fans. So for my son's birthday I picked this one up for us to read together. It's setup like the classic Choose Your Own Adventure books, which is really fun and nostalgic for me because I read a lot of those as a kid (and a few as an adult).
We read this through once so far and there are 30 possible endings, so we only got one so far.
It was an enjoyable experience and my son loved being able to choose what we do next. Each choice is about a 2 page read, so it's fairly quick, depending on what choices you make.
The one problem I had with it is that the ending we got was that we died. Now, considering a real person was sucked into the game, this is kind of morbid to me. I would've much preferred for each ending (whether we die or not) to end up with us waking up and being back in the real world. It makes you wonder what happened in real life? Is the character just gone? Kind of sad to me.
Still, my son loved it and he was already talking about what choices he wants to try differently next time. So I'm sure we will read this more.
I'm really regretting getting rid of my huge Choose Your Own Adventure book collection because I think that would've been fun to read with him.
Overall a nice modern take on the classic. Looking forward to reading this one again.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 20, 2020
I read this with my six year old son who loves Minecraft. He enjoyed this book, wanting to go back and try branching paths to try to "escape" the game. On that note, it's good.
However, unlike other Choose Your Own Adventure-type books, this one has somewhat darker endings when things go wrong. You pretty much just die, and in some cases the descriptions were such that I felt I had to leave them out or change them as I read them to my son. Perhaps the target age is a little older, but I think that lack of diversity in endings is a major drawback for the book.
However, unlike other Choose Your Own Adventure-type books, this one has somewhat darker endings when things go wrong. You pretty much just die, and in some cases the descriptions were such that I felt I had to leave them out or change them as I read them to my son. Perhaps the target age is a little older, but I think that lack of diversity in endings is a major drawback for the book.
July 23, 2026
This is a great read for my 7 year olds bed time story. It stays on a regular rotation.
April 5, 2023
Edit: My husband and kid are now calling it "the cursed book" because they can't for the life of them get the escape ending.
Are we finished with this book? I don't know. There are so many endings here. We could read it a 100 times and still be entertained. I think this book would make a great gift for a Minecraft fan, you'd get real bang for your buck.
Are we finished with this book? I don't know. There are so many endings here. We could read it a 100 times and still be entertained. I think this book would make a great gift for a Minecraft fan, you'd get real bang for your buck.
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