"You Choose" Series by Capstone Press

When I was at the public library with a student a few weeks ago, checking out books on Colonial America, I found a choose your own adventure book Colonial America: An Interactive History Adventure by Allison Lassieur.

Today I started reading it with a tutoring client over Zoom and she loved it. She was extremely disappointed when our session was done. So of course I went to see if there were other books in the series. There are quite a few!

And, as I'm working on compiling them, I'm still finding more and more.

Here are some notes. I have tried to put them in order based on when the historical events happened (but without seeing the interior of the books):

Ancient China
by Terry Collins - J 931 COL

Building the Great Wall of China
by Allison Lassieur - J 951 LAS

Ancient Egypt
by Heather Adamson - J 932 ADA
Giza in the Great Pyramids time (Khufu 2550 BCE), Thebes in the Valley of the Kings time (Tut 1320 BCE), Alexandria in the time of Cleopatra (31 BCE)

Ancient Greece
by William Caper - J 938 CAP
Athenian in 400s BCE, Spartan in 400s BCE

Ancient Rome
by Rachael Hanel - J 937 HAN
wealthy man (Julius Caesar 49 BCE), young woman of the nobility (Nero 62 CE), poor citizen as the empire weakens (invasion of the Visigoths 408 CE)

Life as a Gladiator
by Michael Burgan - J 796 BUR

Could You Escape the Tower of London?
by Blake Hoena

The Middle Ages
by Allison Lassieur - J 940.1 LAS
knight (King Richard the Lion-Hearted 1190), servant in Leeds Castle (King Edward I 1279), woodcarver in Florence Italy during the Black Death (1348)

Life as a Knight
by Rachael Hanel - J 940.1 HAN
Crusades, Hundred Years' War, Peasants' War

Life as a Viking
by Allison Lassieur - J 948 LAS

The Golden Age of Pirates
by Bob Temple - J 910.4 TEM
1680s, 1690s, 1710s

Exploring the New World
by Melody Herr - J 970.01 HER
1492 Columbus, 1540 Coronado, 1682 La Salle

The Aztec Empire
by Elizabeth Raum - J 972 RAU

Colonial America
by Allison Lassieur - J 973.2 LAS
indentured servant in 1645 Virginia, colonist in 1759 Massachusetts (French & Indian War), colonist in 1774 Pennsylvania (the Declaration and Resolves)

The Salem Witch Trials [1692]
by Matt Doeden - J 133.4 DOE
young woman charged with witchcraft, son of an accused woman, accusor

The Boston Massacre
by Elizabeth Raum - J 973.3 RAU
apprentice to a wigmaker, British soldier, John Hancock's maid

The Battle of Bunker Hill
by Michael Burgan - J 973.3 BUR
Patriot soldier, British soldier, Boston civilian

Fighting for Independence
by Blake Hoena - J 973.3 HOE

The Revolutionary War
by Elizabeth Raum - J 973.3 RAU
Patriot spy, Patriot soldier, Loyalist

Spies of the American Revolution
by Elizabeth Raum - J 973.3 RAU

At the Battle of Yorktown
by Eric Mark Braun - J 973.3 BRA

Building a New Nation
by Allison Lassieur

Could You Escape the Paris Catacombs?
by Matt Doeden

The Battle of the Alamo
by Amie Jane Leavitt - J 976.4 LEA

Westward Expansion
by Allison Lassieur - J 978 LAS

The Oregon Trail
by Matt Doeden - J 978.02 DOE

The California Gold Rush
by Elizabeth Raum - J 979.4 RAU

Chinese Immigrants in America
by Kelley Hunsicker - J 973 HUN
mine for gold, build the railroad, settle in San Francisco's Chinatown

Building the Transcontinental Railroad
by Steven Otfinoski - J 385 OTF
Chinese laborer, Irish laborer, engineer for the Central Pacific

The Underground Railroad
by Allison Lassieur - J 973.7 LAS
slave, slave catcher, conductor on the Underground Railroad

The Civil War
by Matt Doeden - J 973.7 DOE
battle of Gettysburg, battle of Chancellorsville, siege of Vicksburg

Spies of the Civil War
by Michael Burgan - J 973.7 BUR

At the Battle of Bull Run
by Eric Mark Braun

At the Battle of the Ironclads
by Matt Doeden

At the Battle of Antietam
by Matt Doeden - J 973.7 DOE

The Story of Juneteenth
by Steven Otfinoski - J 305.8 OTF

Can You Survive the 1865 Sultana Disaster?
by Eric Braun
to be released January 2023

Can You Survive the Schoolchildren's Blizzard? [1888]
by Ailynn Collins - J 977 COL

Can You Survive the Johnstown Flood? [1889]
by Steven Otfinoski - J 974.8 OTF

Can You Survive the 1900 Galveston Hurricane?
by Jessica Gunderson
police officer on patrol, journalist covering the story, 14 year old boy

Can You Survive the Great San Francisco Earthquake? [1906]
by Ailynn Collins - J 979.4 COL

Can You Survive the 1910 Big Burn?
by Ailynn Collins
to be released January 2023

The Child Labor Reform Movement
by Steven Otfinoski - J 331.3 OTF
mill worker, factory worker, newsie

Orphan Trains
by Elizabeth Raum - J 362.7 RAU
1866, 1904, 1919 (flu pandemic) - NOT RECOMMENDED
see my book review on Amazon (waldorf_curric) for why

Ellis Island
by Michael Burgan - J 304.8 BUR
Russian, Italian, German

German Immigrants in America
by Elizabeth Raum - J 973 RAU
Texas, Dakota Territory, Wisconsin

World War I
by Gwenyth Swain - J 940.3 SWA

Spies of World War I
by Michael Burgan - J 940.4 BUR

The Sinking of the Lusitania
by Steven Otfinoski - J 940.4 OTF

The Titanic
by Bob Temple - J 910.9 TEM

Can You Survive the Titanic?
by Allison Lassieur - J 910.9 LAS

Can You Survive the 1918 Flu Pandemic?
by Matthew Manning
to be released January 2023

Can You Survive the 1925 Tri-State Tornado?
by Matthew Manning
to be released January 2023

Building the Golden Gate Bridge
by Blake Hoena - J 624.2 HOE
bridge designer, laborer

Building the Empire State Building
by Allison Lassieur - J 974.7 LAS
assistant at the architecture firm, construction worker, water boy

The Harlem Renaissance
by Allison Lassieur - J 974.7 LAS
1919, 1920s, 1927

The Great Depression
by Michael Burgan - J 973.91 BUR
veteran marching on Washington (1932), teenager riding the rails (1933), young man who dropped out of high school at age 17 to work for the CCC

The Dust Bowl
by Allison Lassieur - J 978.032 LAS
farmer (Kansas 1932), migrant worker, government photographer (1935)

Could You Escape Alcatraz?
by Eric Mark Braun

WWII
by Elizabeth Raum - J 940.53 RAU
Marine at Pearl Harbor, sailor at D-Day, enlisted man on the "Bismark"

World War II Spies
by Michael Burgan - J 950.54 BUR

Stealing Nazi Secrets in World War II
by Elizabeth Raum - J 940.54 RAU

The Attack on Pearl Harbor
by Allison Lassieur - J 940.54 LAS

World War II Pilots
by Michael Burgan - J 940.54 BUR

World War II Infantrymen
by Steven Otfinoski - J 940.54 OTF

World War II Navy Forces
by Elizabeth Raum - J 940.54 RAU

The World War II Soldiers' Experience
by Michael Burgan, Steven Otfinoski, and Elizabeth Raum - J 940.54

World War II on the Home Front
by Martin William Gitlin

Space Race
by Rebecca Stefoff - J 629.4 STE

The Korean War
by Michael Burgan - J 951.9 BUR

The Race to the Moon
by Allison Lassieur - J 629.4 LAS
scientist, reporter, member of Mission Control

The Civil Rights Movement
by Heather Adamson - J 323.119 ADA
Little Rock Arkansas (1957), nonviolent protestor (Freedom Riders 1961), Birmingham Alabama (Children's March and March on Washington 1963)

The Voting Rights Act of 1965
by Michael Burgan - J 324.62 BUR

If anyone has any of these titles and can enlighten me more on the years and the starting paths, I would appreciate it. I did my best based on the snippets of information in the reviews. I had great fun reading through them.

Since all the reviews emphasize that these books are great for reluctant readers, I may get some of them for my classroom! They are also all either in the stacks at our local public library or available through interlibrary loan.

UPDATE:
The people at Capstone Press have done a lot with this format. There's a whole Modern-Day Survival series (think, can you survive storm chasing), a Prehistoric Survival series (think, can you survive the Jurassic Period), a Doomsday Survival series (think, can you survive a global blackout), and even Ancient Greek Mythology and Ancient Norse Mythology!

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