Mystery of the Maya

Time travel to the world of the ancient Maya in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 39 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are back and as much fun as you remember. Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

Your best friend Tom goes missing on assignment in Mexico, and YOU have to help find him. Do you take a potion that sends you back in time to the world of the Maya civilization or search for him in the present day? What secrets does Chichén Itzá hold? Will you become a great Mayan warrior or the next human sacrifice? Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

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 interests 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.