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Choose Your Own Adventure: Young Readers
Series · 22
books · 1981-1989

Books in series

The Haunted House book cover
#2

The Haunted House

1981

You and your dog Homer are walking home from school one day. You throw a stick and Homer chases it right into an abandoned house. The house looks so creepy that you are scared to go in. But you've got to find Homer! He's your best friend. There are lots of places you can look. Where do you start? If you go to the cellar to find Homer, turn to page 10. If you follow the mysterious woman who says she knows where Homer is, turn to page 6. Everything that happens to you in the haunted house depends on the choices you make. Some of your adventures will be scary, some of them will be funny, but all of them will be fun!
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#3

Sunken Treasure

1982

The reader is asked to make choices which will determine the outcome of a search for sunken treasure.
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#4

Your Very Own Robot

1982

Your parents are scientists and inventors. One day, they throw some pieces of a robot into the trash. If you can figure out how to put the pieces together, you'll have a robot of your very own! But do you know enough to control it? Are you ready for the adventure your very own robot will bring will bring? Do you dare dive into a vat of ice cream to save your robot? Do you take your robot to with you school? Should you try and fight off the Pirates who want your robot? YOU choose what happens next! Good luck...
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#6

The Green Slime

1982

The reader is given choices to make in order to fight the green slime made from a chemistry set.
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#7

Help! You're Shrinking

1983

You see a strange bottle. You pick it up and the blue liquid splashes on your arm. Suddenly you shrink and you're no taller than a blade of grass! Will you be able to get back to size? It all depends on the choices you make in this Choose Your Own Adventure book.
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#8

Indian Trail

1983

Indian Trail by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU on an adventure to try and save your village from a terrible drought. Your 6-8 year old reader will bravely search for the kachinas, powerful spirits that help people, facing shadowy wolves, mystical owls, enchanting bears and other thrilling encounters along the way! Choose Your Own Adventure Indian Trail is an interactive adventure book in which YOU decide what happens next. Will you bring your grandfather with you? Or stop to help a wounded bear? Should you ask the Wise One what is in the bundle he carries? For readers that enjoyed other titles from the Choose Your Own Adventure Dragonlark series The Haunted House by R. A. Montgomery, Return to Haunted House by R. A. Montgomery, and Ghost Island by Shannon Gilligan.
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#9

Dream Trips

1983

By making choices, readers can experience a variety of adventures and decide what will happen while they are dreaming
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#11

The Bigfoot Mystery

1983

You're on your first camping trip. You and your cousin Sam have been exploring the mountain trails. Suddenly you hear Sam shout "Help!" A huge creature is holding him high in the air. It has an ape's body, a man's face and a pointed head.
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#14

The Lake Monster Mystery

1983

You and your sister Hannah are on vacation at Lake Champlain in Vermont. You have heard a lot of stories about Champ, a huge monster some people say lives in the lake. You and Hannah are sure that if this monster is real, you can find it! You also find clues to a strange mystery of missing jewels.
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#19

The Tower of London

1984

On a journey to Britain to visit a cousin whose father is a guard at the Tower of London, the reader encounters a host of ghosts, robbers, and a headless woman who haunt the landmark at night.
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#23

The Polar Bear Express

1984

The reader can choose many adventures while visiting an Eskimo friend.
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#24

The Mummy's Tomb

1985

The reader determines the outcome of an adventure with an ancient Egyptian mummy in a spooky tomb.
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#28

Fire!

1985

When the reader discovers that the house is on fire and the firehouse is over a mile away, the only source of help is a neighbor, an old lady that everyone thinks is a witch
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#29

The Fairy Kidnap

1985

The reader, a member of a peace-loving tribe of Irish fairies, embarks on a search for Princess Morgana, the kidnapped daughter of the fairy king
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#31

Lost Dog!

1985

After being left outside as punishment for destroying a shoe, your dog Ralph disappears. You, of course, set off to find him.
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#33

Ghost Island

1986

You are on an exciting sailing trip with your family. Some kids who live on the island tell you about an old graveyard they think is haunted. Are you brave enough to visit it?
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#36

Owl Tree

1986

Owl Tree by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU on an extra special hiking adventure! Your 6-8 year old reader will meet talking owls, travel to a magical world, and fly through the treetops! Choose Your Own Adventure Owl Tree is an interactive adventure book in which YOU decide what happens next. As you explore the enchanted forest, you learn about different types of owls. Can the saw-whet owl show you who you will be when you grow up? If you meet the owl spirit of the forest, will all of your wishes come true? Who are the furry Zoonies playing croquet? For readers that enjoyed other titles from the Choose Your Own Adventure Dragonlark series Lost Dog by R. A. Montgomery, Search for the Dragon Queen by Anson Montgomery, and Sand Castle by R. A. Montgomery.
Sand Castle book cover
#38

Sand Castle

1986

When an ordinary sand castle is transformed into a real castle overnight, the reader is led into a fantastical adventure
The Great Zopper Toothpaste Treasure book cover
#45

The Great Zopper Toothpaste Treasure

1988

An experiment with a chemistry set transports the reader to the magical world of Zopland.
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#46

A Day with the Dinosaurs

1988

After accidentally stumbling into a hole, the reader is hurled back one hundred million years into the past, where a fierce Tyrannosaurus Rex and other dangerous dinosaurs threaten to attack
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#48

You Are Invisible

1989

The reader and his or her family has just moved to a big old house where it is necessary to rummage through the attic and find a strange cape that makes people disappear when they wear it.
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#50

Stranded!

1989

In the latest edition of Skylark adventure game novels, the reader is crossing the Pacific on an ocean liner when a gigantic wave sweeps him or her overboard. Washing up on a tropical island, the reader is faced with many exciting adventures before being rescued.

Authors

Stephanie Spinner
Stephanie Spinner
Author · 22 books

I was born in Davenport, Iowa, and grew up in Rockaway Beach, New York. I read straight through my childhood, with breaks for food, sleep, and the bathroom. I went to college in Bennington, Vermont, moved to New York City, and took a job in publishing so I could get paid for reading. I read so much bad fiction that I needed a break, so I moved to London, and from there I traveled to Morocco, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan India, Nepal, and Ceylon. I came back to America, wandered around some more—to Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize—and on returning to New York decided to study Tibetan Buddhist painting (called thangka painting) in Boulder, Colorado. I painted thangkas for many years. Each one took anywhere from several weeks to a few months to complete, and at long last I understood that this was not the ideal way for me to make a living. Only a few hundred Americans collected thangkas, and they wanted old ones, painted by Tibetan monks. It was time to make a change. So I took another publishing job, this time in children’s books. I found that I liked children’s books a lot, and before long, I became an editor. Years passed. I was encouraged to write. I scoffed at the idea that I had anything to write about. I edited some wonderfully talented authors—Virginia Hamilton, Philip Isaacson, Clyde Robert Bulla, Gloria Whelan, Robin McKinley, Joan Vinge, Garth Nix, and Chris Lynch, among others—with great enjoyment. Writing seemed like torture by comparison. Then, to my amazement, I found myself writing a book and having a good time—simultaneously! The book was ALIENS FOR BREAKFAST, and I enjoyed writing it because my co-author was Jonathan Etra. Jon (who died of heart disease in 1990) was a close friend with a wild sense of humor, and collaborating with him changed my opinion of writing forever. After ALIENS FOR BREAKFAST, and ALIENS FOR LUNCH, which we also co-wrote, I began to think that writing could be interesting fun. And now that I’ve been doing it full-time for more than ten years, I can tell you why I like it better than a job. First, I can work in my bathrobe. (To the FedEx man and the UPS man, I am "the woman in the plaid flannel robe.") Second, I can eat when I’m hungry, choose when to take phone calls, and walk my dogs any time. Third, the only meetings I have—and they’re short—are with the dry cleaner and the post office ladies. Fourth, I can read whatever I please. I may tell people I’m doing research when I read about horse-trekking, or hunting in ancient Greece, or 16 ways to better compost, but the truth is, I’m not doing research, I’m having a good time. Which I think is still allowed.

R.A. Montgomery
R.A. Montgomery
Author · 54 books

Raymond A. Montgomery (born 1936 in Connecticut) was an author and progenitor of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure interactive children's book series, which ran from 1979 to 2003. Montgomery graduated from Williams College and went to graduate school at Yale University and New York University (NYU). He devoted his life to teaching and education. In 2004, he co-founded the Chooseco publishing company alongside his wife, fellow author/publisher Shannon Gilligan, with the goal of reviving the CYOA series with new novels and reissued editions of the classics. He continued to write and publish until his death in 2014.

Edward Packard
Edward Packard
Author · 75 books

Edward Packard attended and graduated from both Princeton University and Columbia Law School. He was one of the first authors to explore the idea of gamebooks, in which the reader is inserted as the main character and makes choices about the direction the story will go at designated places in the text. The first such book that Edward Packard wrote in the Choose Your Own Adventure series was titled "Sugarcane Island", but it was not actually published as the first entry in the Choose Your Own Adventure Series. In 1979, the first book to be released in the series was "The Cave of Time", a fantasy time-travel story that remained in print for many years. Eventually, one hundred eighty-four Choose Your Own Adventure books would be published before production on new entries to the series ceased in 1998. Edward Packard was the author of many of these books, though a substantial number of other authors were included as well. In 2005, Choose Your Own Adventure books once again began to be published, but none of Edward Packard's titles have yet been included among the newly-released books.

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