Decide & Survive: Agent 355

A fast-paced, interactive adventure series for kids, featuring death-defying moments in history! This book features Agent 355, a female spy during the American Revolution.

A Junior Library Guild Selection

“Vivid graphics help bring the history of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, and the American Revolution to life. Opportunities for discussion about choices and consequences will be plentiful and will make historical events much more comprehensible and relatable.”—School Library Journal

The sky's the limit with your historical imagination!

It’s 1777 in Long Island, New York, and you're Myrtle Henderson's eleven-year-old niece. You’re stunned to discover your recently deceased mother was a member of the Culper Ring, a group of patriot spies so secret they don't even know each other! With each page turn, you decide which way the story unravels. Warn General Washington of an assassination plot? Or end up dying for the patriot cause? Only you can decide- and survive!

This book like no other—to be used in a variety of ways—challenges puzzle-solving readers and ignites a love of history for life. The perfect gift or educational book, slyly written as an interactive narrative adventure, will delight and enthrall avid and reluctant readers with its energy and excitement.

As an added educational bonus, extensive backmatter includes a timeline, information about the lives of women in the American Revolution, and details about the real Agent 355 and the Culper code book.

About the Decide & Survive series:

Your Call to Adventure!

Dear Reader, this is your story.

You control how history happens through the choices you make.

Don’t read this book from the first page to the last. Instead, follow the directions at the bottom of each page. When you’re offered options, choose wisely because your decision could end in disaster as easily as triumph.

No matter how your story ends, feel free to start over and create a different story with a new outcome.

Adventure, mystery, danger, and fortune await. Good luck!

Ryan G. Van Cleave is the author of dozens of books for both children and adults. He earned a PhD in American literature with an emphasis in poetry and has taught writing at numerous colleges and universities. As the Picture Book Doctor, Ryan helps celebrities create stories for kids and bring them to life on the page, stage, and screen.