Choose Your Own Adventure: Brooklyn Mermaid

Ages 9 to 12, Grades 4 to 8

4th Bestselling Children's Book Series of all Time --The New Yorker

In this loose sequel to CYOA bestseller Journey Under the Sea, YOU are a mermaid living on the outskirts of the city of Atlantis with your family, who are part of the anarchist Merzood clan. You live in hiding from the Ruler of Atlantis, who wants to use your Merzood magic for evil. When he captures you and imprisons your family, he has a ransom demand for you: that you retrieve "the Eye," a lost Atlantean relic, filled with an ancient magic that could make his reign of terror even worse. With your family's freedom at stake, you don't have much of a choice, except for where to start looking: in Atlantis, or on land in Brooklyn? Will you be able to find the Eye, rescue your family, and stop the Atlantean Ruler from taking over the world?

Choose Your Own Adventure is the bestselling gamebook series of all time. Empowering generations of children through choice, it is widely commended for its appeal to reluctant readers.

About the Author

C. E. Simpson (Shar Simpson) is a non-binary artist, interactive writer, and educator. They specialize in crafting and writing immersive stories for all ages. Shar is a professor at Columbia University's School of Arts' Digital Storytelling Lab where they teach interactive writing and world-building. Shar wrote Eighth Grade Witch, the first Choose Your Own book to be adapted into a graphic novel, and their new book entitled Brooklyn Mermaid will be splashing onto shelves this fall!