Backstage Pass

Suddenly, two people start fighting near the front row. The security guard runs to stop them.
"Come on!" Julie says.
Before you can speak, she jumps up and runs to the backstage door. However, there is another security guard. He grabs Julie's arm.
The guard is busy with Julie, you think. Maybe this is my chance!

Backstage Pass is book number 4 in the Atama-ii Books series. As I have mentioned before, Atama-ii Books is a series of books edited by Marcos Benevides intended for learners of English. These graded readers have simple vocabulary and grammar, and a total length of about 2,500 words, but the content is suitable for adults. A distinctive feature of the series is that, at various key points in the stories, the reader, who is also the protagonist, is presented with two choices regarding how to proceed. These choices add up to eight possible story paths, some ending in failure or even death.

This was my second time to read Backstage Pass. The previous time, I had only boring or unfortunate endings, but today I had two very good endings: One involved me appearing on stage with my favorite band, the Martians, and the other ended in my saving thousands of people from a fire!

The multiple story paths are, in my opinion, best experienced in multiple reading sessions. Each time you revisit a book, you can choose different story paths. This will lead to multiple rereadings of parts of the book, resulting in more fluent and confident reading.

VOCABULARY
riff: リフ、反復楽句

Ito, L. (2014). Backstage pass. Florida: Atama-ii Books.