Grab your hatchets and down your health potions! Get ready to travel through the Worlds between Worlds in Plus One Hatchet, the first-ever middle grade LitRPG adventure from bestselling fantasy author Ryan Rimmel, author of the Noobtown series.

While on a camping trip with his parents, eleven-year-old Jaysen finds a staircase in the woods, which is something one should never climb. But he does. And Jaysen ends up in the office of Mister Mallard, a man with a duck for a head.

A full, entire duck. Not just a duck head.

Thus begins Jaysen’s strange journey in a desolate wilderness with only his hatchet and a know-it-all game guide, Mr. Owl, to help him. As he levels up his pioneer skills, fights spiders and raging boars and nasty crocodile-like creatures, and learns what hit points are (the hard way), Jaysen finds himself on a great quest to achieve the ultimate reward: getting back to Ohio.

What to expect:

• LitRPG For Middle Grade Readers: LitRPG novels tap into readers’ love of portal fantasy, role-playing games, and video games, with strong world-building elements and a sense of humor. With most LitRPG novels in the market aimed for older readers, Plus One Hatchet is specifically crafted to meet young readers where they’re at.
• Perfect For Reluctant Readers: As Jaysen levels up and explores the gamified aspects of his new world, young readers who love video games but struggle to find anything they want to read will obsess over Jaysen’s progress and stats.
• Survival Story: Perfect for fans of Last Kids on Earth and Hatchet, this book follows in the footsteps of these ever-popular survivor stories while putting a specifically 21st-century twist on the way Jaysen’s story is told.