Dig World (Pixel Raiders #1)

The first in a brand-new, highly illustrated series that is Ready Player One for the middle-grade audience!

Enter Dig World, Level One of a virtual reality game where things are all too real!Rip and Mei have been invited to play a beta release of the top secret new game from INREAL GAMES. Once they start playing, they're amazed by how true to life everything feels, looks, and smells. They collect materials to build a house, find food, and craft weapons.But soon they're faced with real danger. If they don't find a way out in three days, they'll be stuck FOREVER.Can they survive attacks from goblins, flametigers, fire lizards, and massive spiders to win the game?

Steven O'Donnell first found a love of video games growing up on a farm in Queensland, Australia. In between spending quality time with his various animals (including two evil goats, Burty and Gurty), he attempted to master any video game he could get his hands on. He previously cohosted the video game review show Good Game and also loves science fiction, cosmology (space!), riding bicycles, and eating cheese sandwiches.

Stephanie Bendixsen grew up in a house without video game consoles, so the first games she fell in love with were entirely text-based online role-playing games! Since then, she has absorbed every possible genre of game she could get her hands on -- and now reviews them professionally, previously co-hosting Good Game in Australia. She enjoys science fiction, fantasy, collecting swords and figurines, and archery. She is also a dedicated servant to her two feline overlords, Gandalf and Merlin.

CHRIS KENNETT is an illustrator who has most recently worked on various Star Wars Little Golden Books and the TV show adaptation of The Day My Butt Went Psycho!. But his coolest job to date has been Pixel Raiders. Visit him at www.chriskennett.com.