The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New York

By: Wendy R Williams

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

“The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New York” is an action/adventure story for kids of all ages. It is only a children’s story if “The Lord of the Flies” is only for children. “The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New York,” tells the story of four kids trapped in New York City after a terrorist attack. In the spirit of “The Wizard of Oz,” they become a band of travelers, adding new friends as they flee the City. By pooling their skills, they discover what happened to the City and escape. Twelve-year-old Amanda was dreading a boring afternoon at a Broadway theater, babysitting her ten-year-old brother Peter and watching her cousin Cindy perform the lead role in an Off-Broadway production of “Annie.” As they wait in Cindy’s basement dressing room after the show, something unimaginable happens—the theater, and perhaps the entire City, explodes above them! Armed with a laptop, un-working phones, and backpacks, the terrified-but-determined tweens manage to escape through an old door in the men’s room and climb down a Prohibition-era stairway to the subway. When they emerge, they are stunned to find an empty city where the streets are choked with abandoned cars and plagued by looters running wild. They dodge thieves and muggers, making their way to Grand Central Station, where they find an explosion of white powder. What happened? Is it a terrorist attack? The tween posse quickly expands, adding characters they meet along their way: Mr. Garvain, a true New York eccentric; his sister Miss Virginia, proprietress of an extensive costume wardrobe; Thibodeaux, a twelve-year-old New Orleans boy turned New York City rapper and clothing designer; and Auntie Tina, Thibodeaux’s guardian. Amid the nonstop thrill-ride, the now expanded posse learn to trust each other and stay together to save the City. “The Big Apple Posse: Escape from New York” is the first of a three-book series, “The Big Apple Posse Trilogy,” which follows the posse’s journey from victims to witnesses in the terror trial of the century. The second in the trilogy, “The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New Orleans,” was published in December of 2011 and is for sale at Amazon.com. The third book, “The Big Apple Posse: Escape from Los Angeles,” was published in September of 2012 and is also for sale on Amazon.com. “Solange’s Song,” the young adult sequel to the “Big Apple Posse” books, was published in January of 2014. The “Trilogy” books and “Solange’s Song” were re-edited and updated in March of 2021.