It may seem hard to find adventures since we’ve been cooped up at home. But reading and creative writing are a couple of ways to escape to anywhere you want! Some great books to check out right now are the Choose Your Own Adventure and similar series. Right now, you may only get to decide which room in your house to do e-learning. But with these books, your choices lead to so many different adventures! If you have never read one before, each book starts out introducing the main characters and setting. At the bottom of each page you are instructed on which page to turn to next. On many pages, however, you are given two different options. For example, it may say something like “If you decide to stay on the beach, turn to the next page. If you decide to board the pirate ship, turn to page 30.” The way the story ends depends on the choices you make. What makes these books fun is that you can read them more than once, and come up with different endings!
We have several adventure books available to check out through our curbside service! Some recommendations include “Owl Tree” and “Smoke Jumpers” by R.A. Montgomery, or “Your Grandparents Are Zombies!” by Anson Montgomery. E-books to checkout on Overdrive include “Clawed!” by Dottie Enderle, “A Really New School” by Jan Fields, or “The Terror of the Bigfoot Beast” by Laurie S. Sutton.
If you are looking for an even bigger adventure, try creating your own story! Here are some tips to get started:
- Create your main character. What is her name? How old is he? Where does she live?
- Think about your first setting. What is your character doing?
- Now, come up with two or more choices for your character to make.
- Continue writing your story for each choice. Add additional choices from each of these, and create multiple endings. The chart below shows an example of choices and sub-choices. You can write as many as you want!
- Put it all together! Number your pages so that they match up with each choice.
- Have even more fun with it by creating a cover and illustrations.
Have fun with your reading and writing adventures! Comment below and share a little bit about the story you’ve created, or a favorite book you’ve read!
Sample plot chart for your story:
