Danger and adventure await you in the Underground Kingdom! You are exploring the Underground Kingdom, a fantastic and strange world in the center of the earth. As you stand inside the largest cavern you've ever seen, you are amazed at the dazzling sight before your eyes. If you decide to climb the Shining Mountains, turn to page 36. If you explore the Weightless Peaks, turn to page 85. If you go to the Hills of Diamonds, turn to page 88. Be careful! The Underground Kingdom can be dangerous. You might be attacked by the vicious Kota beast—or caught in the middle of the war between the Rakas and the Archpods, two barbarian tribes. You may not make it back alive! What happens to you in the Underground Kingdom 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!
Author
Edward Packard attended and graduated from both Princeton University and Columbia Law School. He was one of the first authors to explore the idea of gamebooks, in which the reader is inserted as the main character and makes choices about the direction the story will go at designated places in the text. The first such book that Edward Packard wrote in the Choose Your Own Adventure series was titled "Sugarcane Island", but it was not actually published as the first entry in the Choose Your Own Adventure Series. In 1979, the first book to be released in the series was "The Cave of Time", a fantasy time-travel story that remained in print for many years. Eventually, one hundred eighty-four Choose Your Own Adventure books would be published before production on new entries to the series ceased in 1998. Edward Packard was the author of many of these books, though a substantial number of other authors were included as well. In 2005, Choose Your Own Adventure books once again began to be published, but none of Edward Packard's titles have yet been included among the newly-released books.
