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Choose Your Own Adventure

April 10, 2020

5 interactive fiction series to get you started on your next family adventure.

Looking for a different kind of story time? Choose your own adventure and read an interactive book together as a family.

1. The Oregon Trail  

Travel by covered wagon back to 1850 and choose-your-own-trail with this gamebook series based on the 8-bit video game enjoyed by 90s school kids everywhere.  

2. Give Yourself Goosebumps

Another retro throwback, Give Yourself Goosebumps is a spin-off of the popular horror series by R.L. Stine where readers choose the scare.  

3. Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Adventure

Climb Mount Everest, sail around the world, or travel to Mars! These books not only pack a lot of action with comic-book style illustrations, but provide readers with real true-life facts along the way.  

4. Twisted Journeys

The Twisted Journeys comics offer a wide array of interactive stories from sci-fi to superhero, fantasy, and horror. Audio narration is also available.  

5. Case Closed

Solve mysteries and help the Las Pistas Detective Agency! More than just deciding the plot, this pick-your-own-path series also contain puzzles.

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Megan

Megan has worked in the library system for 10 years. Ze currently works at the Green Hills branch, but has also spent time in Special Collections and the Main Library Teen Center. Hir hobbies include playing cozy video games and watching horror and sci-fi films.