Roller Coaster Tycoon 4: Kidnapped! [Paperback]

Larry Mike Garmon (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: RollerCoaster Tycoon

Kids everywhere are becoming self-made tycoons-RollerCoaster Tycoons, that is! In this popular computer game, players make both business and creative decisions with one goal in mind: create the best amusement park ever!

The choose-your-own-adventure format of the RollerCoaster Tycoon Pick Your Path! books puts the reader in total control. And with fun characters and unique scenarios, each book captures all of the thrill and excitement of being in an actual amusement park.

The owner of the world's largest amusement park has been kidnapped! Where's she being held? Will she be saved in time? And who's behind it all? So many choices, so little time . . .

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 124 pages
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap (March 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0448431300
• ISBN-13: 978-0448431307
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,518,415 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Larry Mike Garmon began his writing career at 16 writing sports and news for the Wyoming State Tribune. He soon took up photojournalism and by the end of high school had worked as a stringer for UPI, AP, Rocky Mountain News, LA Times, New York Times, and the National Editors Association.

His first YA novel was a trade paperback Hardy Boys Casefiles mysteries.

He continued to write several in the Casefiles series including one Nancy Drew-Hardy Boys SuperMystery set at Quartz Mountain, Oklahoma.

Because of his experience with the Hardy Boys series, Universal Studios and Scholastic Books, Inc., contracted with Garmon to develop and write a six-book YA series based on the classic Universal Studio monsters: Dracula, Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Garmon has also written for the RollarCoaster Tycoon middle grade series.

He was asked to help develop the Map Monsters YA fantasy series published in England and Europe.

He is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association, Oklahoma Writers Federation, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and is the founder of the Shortgrass Children and Young Writers Association.

Garmon grew up watching B-horror horror and science fiction movies on late night shook and horror shows. He also delved into Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.P. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, & H.G. Wells at an young age.

Garmon's writing covers dark fantasy, horror, and mystery genres.

He is presently working on MG/YA apocalyptic thriller called NEVRLAND.