Minecraft® Explorers

Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, [September 25, New Style][1] 1728—October 19, 1814) was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. In the eighteenth century, topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men. Few men and fewer women had the education or training to write about these subjects. Warren was an exception. During the years before the American Revolution, Warren published poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist British infringements on colonial rights and liberties. In 1775 Warren published The Group, a satire conjecturing what would happen if the British king abrogated the Massachusetts charter of rights.

Dave Lee's friends like having adventures. Dave himself, however, isn't so sure about that. Still, he's curious enough about his friend Matt's special VR headset that he'll give it a try just to see the world of Minecraft. But survival is more than defeating monsters and building houses, and Dave knows that. He'll teach his friends too, and along the way, he might just have an adventure!

Matt Lopez is an ordinary kid. He likes hanging out with his friends, playing Minecraft, and teasing his brother and sister. But when Matt buys a secondhand VR headset at a lawn sale and tries it out one night, he gets a huge surprise: he wakes up in the world of Minecraft! It'll take all his skills and smarts to stay alive, because gathering resources, putting together tools, and creating a safe spot to avoid nighttime monsters is far easier on screen than it is in reality. This exciting chapter book will grab Minecraft fans with game tips and tricks, an intriguing story, and engaging characters.

Kayla's main project in the group's Minecraft base is the map wall, and while she's filling out her third map, she comes across something special: a desert temple! Excited, she returns to enlist her sister Jaz to help with the adventure. Jaz, however, isn't nearly so sure she wants any kind of adventure that includes dangerous falling sand, prickly cacti, husk zombies that can attack in daylight, and explosive TNT traps. Still, the sisters will need each other's skills to succeed and make it home with their loot.

For the first time, Matt, Dave, Jaz, and Kayla venture into the Minecraft world together. However, they all have different styles of playing. Jaz and Dave want to improve their home first, while Kayla and Matt want to explore. But four people need more resources than one, and after creepers destroy part of their base, they're going to have to learn to work together if they want to survive and return to the Minecraft world again.

The team has more than a base now. They have a fortress, a thriving farm, and a road to the village, where they can trade for items with the villagers. However, all four of them will have to leave their comfort zones, as Dave and Kayla venture into the jungle and Matt and Jaz search for obsidian in the depths of the earth. Their adventures will bring them deeper than ever into the wider Minecraft world.

Jasmine Jackson has a great imagination, but when her friend Matt tells their group of friends that he has a VR headset that can send him into the world of Minecraft, she finds it a little hard to believe. When Jaz tries the headset out for herself, she learns the truth, but then a creeper comes along and does what creepers do! She'll need to rebuild her shelter and maybe improve on it before she can find her way home. Young Minecraft fans will enjoy this tale of creepers and caves and creativity in a gaming-themed world.