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5) The gauntlet
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When twelve-year-old Farah and her two best friends get sucked into a mechanical board game called The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand, a puzzle game akin to a large Rubik's cube, they know it is up to them to defeat the game's diabolical architect in order to save themselves and those who are trapped inside, including her baby brother Ahmed.
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"The adventures continue in the Woodsword Chronicles as five young Minecraft players find themselves transported inside the game they love--and now bats have invaded their school! Are creatures from the game leaking into their world? Needing to learn more, the players agree to leave their Minecraft castle and travel farther into the world they're visiting" --
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"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--
11) Jumanji
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Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.
12) Slacker
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When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
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"The witches of the Far Lands of Minecraft are missing . . . all of them! When a young village girl is badly injured, and only a witch can help her, Watcher and his friends quickly discover there are spiders involved. They must follow clues leading them through jungles and forests, all the way to the doorstep of the dreaded outcast spiders, the Forgotten. Watcher and his companions must figure out a way to free the witches from their ruthless captors,...
14) The Egypt game
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Melanie and April turn a deserted lot into an imaginary Egypt where they spend many hours enacting rituals and consulting oracles, but there are real dangers and problems lurking outside their make-believe world that almost bring their game to a disastrous end.
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"In the first in this series of three unofficial Minecraft adventure books, its time for our 12-year-old hero to choose his future vocation to study at the Minecraftia school. His options are less than tantalizing: farmer, butcher, crafter, miner. What this noob really wants is to be a warrior like his hero, Steve. So when he learns that the five best students in school that year will get the chance to start warrior training, its on"--Amazon.com.
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Pete the Cat loves to play hide-and-seek! When his friends hide, Pete covers his eyes and counts to 10. He opens them and just knows he will find them soon. But finding his friends may be harder than Pete thought. Are they behind a tree or on a bus? Or will Pete give up? Find out how Pete learns to chill out in this cool story full of surprises at every peek!
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Dedicated slacker Cameron Boxer thinks he has found gamer heaven: playing video games online for an audience (and money); but the Positive Action Group (the club he created to keep his parents off his back) keeps getting in the way with meetings and fund-raisers for worthy causes, and his friends keep turning to him for plans and girlfriend advice, plus Elvis the beaver is back chewing on the back wall--and all Cameron wants to do is to conquer the...