Choose Your Own "Choose Your Own" Book!
Do you consider yourself daring? Smart? Curious? Are you intrigued by the idea of choices or branching paths? Are you a reader who's read something and said to yourself, “He did that?! Come on! I'd so have done this instead, and it would've worked out so much better!”?
Well, then, these books and others like them might just be the kind for you. You, the reader, are the main character (or sometimes control the main character) in the story. When there's a choice to make, it's up to you to decide and find out where it leads... GOOD OR BAD!
So, what are you waiting for? Check one of these out from your local library and start your interactive adventure today!
Give Yourself Goosebumps: Trapped In Batwing Hall by R.L. Stine
You're the new kid in town and you've just joined a club of horror-enthusiasts who are meeting in an abandoned mansion for a scavenger hunt. Choose your team, and face unexpected horrors in this adventure.
As someone who enjoys high-stake monster-related stories, this was a personal favorite of mine from this series!
Choose Your Own Adventure: Through the Black Hole by Edward Packard
An opportunity of cosmic proportions has presented itself and you, a trained astronaut, are selected to investigate. A black hole is suddenly reachable, and it just might be the key to untold discoveries. Will you brave the journey through it, or will you be the one to offer support from the other ship? Be ready: nobody's done this before, and anything can go wrong in space.
While the space theme caught my interest and seemed comprehensible as a kid, the fact is that you're in front of a black hole! One misstep is all it takes for everything to go wrong (even when you think it may be the smart move). Naturally, the tension gets high, making for an exciting story.
Endless Quest: Escape the Underdark by @mattforbeck
You, a heroic fighter, have been taken prisoner to be sold as a slave in the mysterious, dangerous territory of the Underdark. It's up to you to figure out a means of escaping this pit of horror. But be warned: the prison is just one of many dangers out there, and not even the prison may be safe in the end. How you make your way out is up to you... if you last long enough, of course.
As a recent fan of Dungeons and Dragons, I just had to read this series. And this was most certainly one of its best.
Dipper and Mabel and the Curse of the Time Pirates' Treasure by Jeffrey Rowe
Iconic, mystery-solving adventurer twins Dipper and Mabel cross paths with an old time-traveling companion who needs their help to find a mysterious treasure lost in time and space. You, the reader, are the trio's guide as they traverse specific time periods, making the tough calls as they face dangers of those eras, strange-lookalikes, and potential time-paradoxes. Will you find treasure, or is perhaps the real treasure the adventure itself? (Probably the former...)
As a fan of Gravity Falls, time travel and alternative timeline stories, and scenarios with multiple outcomes, I just couldn't not read this. Definitely worth it!
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