Jay Leibold

The reader's decisions control the course of what happens when a boy finds a satchel filled with a million dollars.

Readers are challenged to defy a part-human, part-robot ninja who travels from the future in order to disrupt life in the dojo and steal a set of sacred scrolls.

While surfing in California, a surfer disappears and the reader must investigate the disappearance, a search that leads to a gang called the Surf Monkeys.

The reader's decisions control the course of an adventurous search in Istanbul for the legendary lamp of Aladdin.

You are a skilled fighter, well versed in the martial arts and the art of ninjutsu. One day you are talking with Saito, a strange boy from your class, when a car suddenly pulls up. You watch as two men jump out, shove Saito into their car, and drive off. Everything happens so fast. You're not certain, but you think the men are Yakuza, a ruthless band of Japanese gangsters. You want to do something to help Saito, but what? If you try to help Saito yourself, turn to page 56. If you choose to let the police handle it, turn to page 81. But be careful! The Yakuza are powerful and deadly enemies. You might get hijacked to Hong Kong and sold into slavery. Or you could become a true ninja hero and help to put the Yakuza behind bars! What happens next in the story? It all depends on the choices you make. How does the story end? Only you can find out! And the best part is that you can keep reading and rereading until you've had not one but many incredibly daring experiences!

You are about to witness apartheid! The year is 1976. Your winning essay on the educational system in South Africa has attracted so much attention that the South African government has invited you and your classmates to see the system firsthand. While on a guided tour through a village, you see a mysterious figure in a window across the way. You should stay with your group, but this might be an opportunity to see the real South Africa. What will you do?

The reader is visiting Russia on an exchange program when invited to a seance. At the seance, the spirit of Rasputin is contacted, and the reader is hurled back in time to the Russian Revolution--just before Rasputin's murder!

When left in charge of a friend's martial arts school, the reader becomes embroiled in an ancient feud between two warring clans. Which clan will win? And how can the reader lead the school through the danger of war? Features Ninja lore and a glossary.

The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure in Japan, in which the arrival of a sword in the mail has precipitated a terrible curse.

Readers match wits with eight other fortune hunters as they make a perilous trek into the heart of 1901 China in search of Baron von Frothingham's agent, who disappeared while seeking treasures near the Great Wall

The reader is trapped on a deserted planet with the evil scientist Dr. Fingley, an arch-rival of the reader's parents, who has stolen the powerful antimatter device invented by the reader's parents

You're a daring river runner who's just been hired to raft down the Colorado River. Your mission: find the lost horses who went to the edge of the Grand Canyon and then vanished.

It's 1942. You are the leader of a team of French Resistance fighters. Your mission: rescue two people whom the Nazis are holding captive in a castle high in the Alps. You decide to parachute into the mountains near the castle. But as soon as you land, you hear the crack of rifle shots. The Naxi Alpencorps is hot on your trail!

Surviving in Two Worlds brings together the voices of twenty-six Native American leaders. The interviewees come from a variety of tribal backgrounds - from Penobscot and Onondaga in the Northeast, to Tlingit and Inupiaq in Alaska, to the Pueblo and California tribes of the West - and range from traditional elders and healers to doctors, lawyers, artists, and college presidents. They include such national figures as Oren Lyons, Arvol Looking Horse, John Echohawk, William Demmert, Clifford Trafzer, Greg Sarris, and Roxanne Swentzell. Their interviews are divided into five sections, grouped around the themes of tradition, history and politics, healing, education, and culture. A brief biography and insightful photograph introduce each speaker. They take readers into their lives, their dreams and fears, their philosophies and experiences, and show what they are doing to assure the survival of their peoples and cultures, as well as the earth as a whole. Their analyses of the past and present, and especially their counsels for the future, are timely and urgent.

The ninja cyborg is the deadliest of assassins: part flesh, part machine, and all ninja. The reader must travel to the twenty-first century to face this frightening creation and decide upon the best way to stop it by choosing from among various plot choices.