 | Lost on the Amazon (Choose Your Own Adventure #9) by R. A. Montgomery
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.23 Tropical rainforest, poisonous animals, a nice dose of action-packed escapism.
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 | The Abominable Snowman (Choose Your Own Adventure #1) by R. A. Montgomery
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.38 To me, hunting down the Yeti is the quintessence of a child's conception of an adventure.
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 | Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.75 I'm not typically into the sport genre, but this is absolutely one of the most gripping books I've ever read. More advanced teen readers will enjoy this, as well. Some language and graphic images.
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 | Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Buy used from: $0.01 Another survival story, though fictional, where the protagonist is a 13-year-old boy who uses his instincts and mind to stay alive after his plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness.
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 | The Myster of Ura Senke (Choose Your Own Adventure #13) by Shannon Gilligan
Buy used from: $0.03 With the recent waves of Japanese imports like Pokemon and anime, it should be interesting for kids to visit Japan themselves in this book.
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 | Secret of the Ninja (Choose Your Own Adventure, No. 16) by Jay Leibold
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.04 Ninjas are back in style, according to my 8th grade boys. There is a sharp divide between the ninja and the pirate contingents in the classroom.
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 | The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 A very fun, smart mystery for kids.
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 | Mystery of the Maya (Choose Your Own Adventure, No. 5) by R. A. Montgomery
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 A mystery where "You" the reader decide what steps to take!
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 | Guys write for Guys read by Jon Scieszka
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $3.85 Guy writers write about being guys for guys to read. Fun for girls, too.
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 | Al Capone Does My Shirts (Newbery Honor Book) by Gennifer Choldenko
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.93 A family novel told by 12-year-old Moose Flanagan, whose family moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935.
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 | Criss Cross (Newbery Medal Book) by Lynne Rae Perkins
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.23 This book is written in a variety of forms, including poetry and question-answer sections. Through these parts, the protagonists as well as the reader explore themselves by the decisions they make.
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 | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.95 Bartoletti portrays life under fascism, and the horrible reality of a government so set on its own propagation that children were enlisted in its cause, the decision made for them by the regime.
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 | Space and Beyond (Choose Your Own Adventure #3) by R. A. Montgomery
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.04 Blast off the couch and into space!
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 | Trouble on Planet Earth (Choose Your Own Adventure, No. 11) by R. A. Montgomery
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $2.06 The Earth's oil is being siphoned off by aliens! Fantasy meets a pertinent environmental/economic/political concern.
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