By Tracey Baptiste
An official Minecraft novel where the game becomes a lifeline after a real-world accident.
Bianca and her friend Lonnie are in a car crash, and Bianca wakes up in a hospital while Lonnie lies unconscious in another room. To get through the long, scary days, she tries an experimental Minecraft game and finds herself building, mining, and surviving alongside a mysterious in-game companion, all while she waits to learn if her friend will be okay. It moves between the real hospital and the blocky world your child knows by heart.
It's real Minecraft, so a game-obsessed child recognizes every mechanic and reads on to see how she survives the night. But it also carries a genuine story about a friend in danger, which gives a child who only wanted the game a taste of caring how a book ends.