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- ↑ "Rights News: Chooseco Signs Children's Author Bart King For Two Upcoming Titles". Chooseco LLC.
- ↑ "Chooseco Signs 3-Book Deal with Esteemed Professor and Poet Kazim Ali". Chooseco LLC.
- ↑ Katz, Demian. "Choose Your Own Adventure Graded Reader List". Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
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- Adventures of You Series, Vermont Crossroads Press, owned by Constance Cappel and R.A. Montgomery in Waitsfield, Vermont. Books published: 1. Sugarcane Island, Edward Packard, 1976 and 2. R.A. Montgomery (Robert Mountain), Journey Under the Sea, 1976.