The Revolutionary War: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History)

Love these books, but please remember these should be meant for upper middle school students. Don’t base age on reading level with these. War is covered accurately, which means there are “morbid” parts to some of the stories. These did actually happen and to children no-less during this time. (I have a handwritten account of one of my ancestors who joined the Patriots at 16 but was whipped fiercely by his Loyalist father when this enlistment was discovered....and he had to leave home and never return in order to continue his cause for liberty. He also changed his last name.) It is accurate and only reiterates why we should honor the sacrifices of all (not just the soldiers) when we see our flag flying. Freedom isn’t free. Good read and love the setup of these books. I was a big fan of the original Choose Your Own Adventure books. Glad to share these with my kids when they are a bit older.

My 8-year-old son adores this series so much! He is a huge history fan and avid reader of non-fiction, so finding fiction that he enjoys is rare. Enter in historical fiction. He loves the fact he is IN the story. It makes history come alive for him.

I got this for my six-year-old, who reads at an advanced level and is pretty bored with, say, ninjago and magic tree house.The problem we have is getting him good material that is still *age* and *maturity level* appropriate, and boy does this fall into that. The book is great: Choose your person, choose his/her actions, and they are all very reasonable. Tough stuff, it's a war, but fine.Right up until the boy gets caught, stripped, tied to the mast of a ship, whipped, description of back striped, his blood running and mixing with water on the deck, and he gets dragged off by his friends but dies of an infection. AWESOME, that's not something he's going to read before bed anytime soon without having nightmares.So, if you have a mature kid that doesn't nightmare, it's great. If you're thinking a younger/sensitive one can handle it ... read the whole thing first. The opening pages look fine, but it turns more graphic/mature further in.

Exciting stories and historically accurate. We have been using to supplement our homeschool history curriculum. Kids (ages 5-15) love choosing what path to take. Makes learning fun!

My students love these choose your own adventure books. They even make great read alouds where we vote on the path we take.

My son loves reading about history and this was the first chapter book he read all the way through. He enjoyed choosing the different paths and learning what would happen with the different choices. I liked how it told both sides of the story and it was an unopinionated history. I did find it a little unnerving when he would come up to me and say "I died" but he was reading. The story was not told in descriptions so much as facts and statements but my son doesn't care about the details so much. I found it a bit boring but my son enjoyed it.

I bought a handful of these hoping they wouldnt just be another failed attempt to get my youngest (11 year old son) to actually want to read. Well these books brought success. He gets to interact with the book by making choices so hes even excited to re-read the books that hes finished to see what happnes when he makes differant choices...the best part is they are based on true events so he is learning history and not just reading for fun. Will be buying lots more of these.

I liked the fact that you could choose what you wanted to do, even if you ended up dying. I would recommend this for kids ages 6+. I also liked it had real facts, as if a normal book, but choosing your path.