Silver Wings (Choose Your Own Adventure #23) - Softcover

R. A. Montgomery

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933390239 ISBN 13: 9781933390239

Publisher: Chooseco, 2007

Synopsis

Silver Wings by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU on an adventure flying above - or crashing into! - the Baja Peninsula. 9-12 year old readers will learn to perform under pressure, piloting a motor glider through inclement conditions, caring for navigator Isabel after she falls mysteriously ill, escaping the threat of violent bandits, and helping friends Peter and Josh after an emergency landing.

Choose Your Own Adventure Silver Wings is an interactive adventure book in which YOU decide what happens next.

After a year of flight training, a surprise trip to the Baja Peninsula puts your skills to the test - but will they be enough to earn you your Silver Wings? Do you rush immediately to your friends' downed plane or wait till nightfall? Do you follow the shady character you spot snooping around the plane or stay hidden out of view? Who do you think tampered with your radio?

For readers who enjoyed other titles from the Choose Your Own Adventure series, including: Struggle Down Under by Shannon Gilligan, Secret of the Ninja by Jay Leibold, and Smoke Jumpers by R. A. Montgomery.

About this title

About the Author:

R. A. MONTGOMERY attended Hopkins Grammar School, Williston-Northampton School and Williams College where he graduated in 1958. He pursued graduate studies in Religion and Economics at Yale and NYU. Montgomery was an adventurer all his life, climbing mountains in the Himalaya, skiing throughout Europe and scuba-diving wherever he could. His interested included education, macro-economics, geo-politics, mythology, history, mystery novels and music. He wrote his first interactive book, Journey Under the Sea, in 1976 and published it under the series name The Adventures of You. A few years later Bantam Books bought this book and gave Montgomery a contract for five more, to inaugurate their new children s publishing division. Bantam renamed the series Choose Your Own Adventure and a publishing phenomenon was born. The series has sold more than 260 million copies in over 40 languages. He was married to the writer Shannon Gilligan. Montgomery died in November 2014, only two months after his last book was published.

Review:

After a generation out of print, the original Choose Your Own Adventure series is back. First published in 1979, the books let readers remix their own stories - and face the consequences. A quarter-billion copies sold worldwide as kids raced to discover lost civilizations, navigate black holes, and go in search of...the Yeti. The original titles have returned in bookstores, revamped with 21st century references (cell phones!). Everyone enjoys playing the hero - especially if the hero has cool gadgets. --Wired Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Chooseco
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1933390239
• ISBN 13: 9781933390239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144