(3) 4-6 You Choose: Fractured Fairy Tales series. Illustrated by Alan Brown. Fairy tales told as choose-your-path adventures may be an ideal match of form and genre. Readers addressed as "you" first select one of three scenarios (including fantasy, wacky humor, and sci-fi) and make narrative choices until reaching a happy, sad, or neutral ending. Serviceable black-and-white illustrations support the texts. Background about the source tale and critical thinking questions are included. Reading list. Review covers these You Choose: Fractured Fairy Tales titles: Rumpelstiltskin and Rapunzel.

Reviewer: Amy Bennett-Zendzian

(4) 4-6 You Choose Stories: Field Trip Mysteries series. Illustrated by Marcos Calo. Readers get to co-construct each story and help solve thin mysteries in this interactive spinoff of Brezenoff's Field Trip Mysteries. Sixth-grade detectives Sam, Egg, Gum, and Cat investigate a missing rare fruit from a botanical garden (Fruit) and stolen electronic tickets from a carnival (Caper). Each case offers twelve possible endings for readers to pursue. Full-bleed color illustrations bring important scenes to life. Glos. Review covers these You Choose Stories: Field Trip Mysteries titles: The Carnival Caper and The Disappearing Fruit.

Reviewer: Grace Enriquez

(4) 4-6 You Choose Stories: Field Trip Mysteries series. Illustrated by Marcos Calo. Readers get to co-construct each story and help solve thin mysteries in this interactive spinoff of Brezenoff's Field Trip Mysteries. Sixth-grade detectives Sam, Egg, Gum, and Cat investigate a missing rare fruit from a botanical garden (Fruit) and stolen electronic tickets from a carnival (Caper). Each case offers twelve possible endings for readers to pursue. Full-bleed color illustrations bring important scenes to life. Glos. Review covers these You Choose Stories: Field Trip Mysteries titles: The Carnival Caper and The Disappearing Fruit.

Reviewer: Grace Enriquez

(4) 4-6 You Choose: Haunted Places series. On guided tours of a historic hotel and a long-abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium, readers are given a choice of numerous scenarios and endings that portray the supposedly ghostly haunting of each. The slight Choose Your Own Adventure–style speculative narratives offer dozens of entertaining choices and multiple endings accompanied by archival photographs of the locales. An epilogue provides limited historical background. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these You Choose: Haunted Places titles: The Haunted Sanatorium and [cf]2Stanley Hotel.

Reviewer: Rita Soltan

(4) 4-6 You Choose: Ancient Greek Myths series. Illustrated by Carolyn Arcabascio. These two decent adaptations of Greek myths rely on a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure format, which encourages multiple read-throughs to follow the different story paths. This makes for some abrupt transitions, though, as you skip past parts of each myth. Both books include serviceable sepia-toned illustrations. Reading list. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these You Choose: Ancient Greek Myths titles: Olympians vs. Titans and Hades and the Underworld.

Reviewer: Antonio Trujillo

(4) 4-6 You Choose: Ancient Greek Myths series. Illustrated by Nadine Takvorian. These two decent adaptations of Greek myths rely on a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure format, which encourages multiple read-throughs to follow the different story paths. This makes for some abrupt transitions, though, as you skip past parts of each myth. Both books include serviceable sepia-toned illustrations. Reading list. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these You Choose: Ancient Greek Myths titles: Olympians vs. Titans and Hades and the Underworld.

Reviewer: Antonio Trujillo

(4) 4-6 You Choose: Surviving Extreme Sports series. Snow, bitter cold, wild animals, and other physical dangers are omnipresent in these pick-your-path wilderness-survival stories. Readers' choices determine whether the adventure ends successfully or in failure. The narratives highlight the exhilaration and danger of both extreme sports; color photographs sprinkled throughout illustrate the majestic yet harsh environments. An epilogue provides limited contextual background. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these You Choose: Surviving Extreme Sports titles: Surviving Mount Everest and Surviving the Iditarod.

Reviewer: Antonio Trujillo

(4) 4-6 You Choose: Surviving Extreme Sports series. Snow, bitter cold, wild animals, and other physical dangers are omnipresent in these pick-your-path wilderness-survival stories. Readers' choices determine whether the adventure ends successfully or in failure. The narratives highlight the exhilaration and danger of both extreme sports; color photographs sprinkled throughout illustrate the majestic yet harsh environments. An epilogue provides limited contextual background. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these You Choose: Surviving Extreme Sports titles: Surviving Mount Everest and Surviving the Iditarod.

Reviewer: Antonio Trujillo

(3) 4-6 You Choose: Fractured Fairy Tales series. Illustrated by Federica Frenna. Fairy tales told as choose-your-path adventures may be an ideal match of form and genre. Readers addressed as "you" first select one of three scenarios (including fantasy, wacky humor, and sci-fi) and make narrative choices until reaching a happy, sad, or neutral ending. Serviceable black-and-white illustrations support the texts. Background about the source tale and critical thinking questions are included. Reading list. Review covers these You Choose: Fractured Fairy Tales titles: Rumpelstiltskin and Rapunzel.

Reviewer: Amy Bennett-Zendzian

(4) 4-6 You Choose: Haunted Places series. On guided tours of a historic hotel and a long-abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium, readers are given a choice of numerous scenarios and endings that portray the supposedly ghostly haunting of each. The slight Choose Your Own Adventure–style speculative narratives offer dozens of entertaining choices and multiple endings accompanied by archival photographs of the locales. An epilogue provides limited historical background. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these You Choose: Haunted Places titles: The Haunted Sanatorium and [cf]2Stanley Hotel.

Reviewer: Rita Soltan

(4) 4-6 You Choose: Space series. Travel in space with NASA in these latest Choose Your Own Adventure–narratives based on real events. Readers select different plot options to follow, all accompanied by black-and-white and color photographs. Unfortunately, transitions between sections are inadequate and the stories are a bit wooden. Still, young readers will learn a lot about the evolution of the space program since the 1960s. Reading list, timeline. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers the following You Choose: Space titles: Apollo 11 Moon Landing and Mars Exploration Rovers.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(3) 4-6 You Choose: Haunted Places series. On guided tours of the famous prison (Alcatraz) and grand steamship (Queen Mary), readers are given a choice of numerous scenarios and endings which supposedly portray the ghostly haunting of each. The Choose Your Own Adventure–style speculative narratives offer as many as forty-two entertaining choices and fifteen endings accompanied by archival photographs. An epilogue provides limited historical background. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers the following You Choose: Haunted Places titles: Alcatraz and The Queen Mary.

Reviewer: Rita Soltan

(3) 4-6 You Choose: Doomsday series. Illustrated by Paul Fisher-Johnson. These high-interest books set the scene before readers select their next moves to survive in apocalyptic settings. A series of over thirty choices leads to varied endings in each book. Short informative notes (about evolving artificial intelligence and possible causes and consequences of societal collapse), survival kit instructions, and tips are included. Dark, sepia comic book–style illustrations add atmosphere. Reading list. Glos. Review covers the following You Choose: Doomsday titles: Can You Survive an Artificial Intelligence Uprising? and and Can You Survive in a Dystopia?.