Decide & Survive: The Attack on Pearl Harbour

Lindsay's Review 

At last, a new series of children’s 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books are here. This genre is always popular with the kids, and this new series is no exception. Based on historical narratives, these romping adventures allow the reader to create their own stories as they must choose their action at the bottom of each page: in Agent 355, set in New York, you are a spy for Washington in the American revolution against the British, and must warn Washington of an impending assassination attempt. In The Attack on Pearl Harbour, set in 1941, tough decisions must be made as to fight or flight, stay hidden or rescue your half-Japanese classmates. Will you survive? You decide!

These books are a brilliant way to get kids reading that won't make them feel like they are slogging cover-to-cover through some endless tome. Furthermore, they can read and re-read multiple times as the adventures often come to an unexpected end. Hours of fun for all types of kids, with a bit of history thrown in.

Upcoming titles include Choose Your Own Evolution; Black Beards Wrath; Destruction of Pompeii; The Battle of Gettysburg; Deep Space Danger.

Publisher's Review

A fast-paced, interactive adventure series for kids, featuring death-defying moments in history! This time featuring the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor!

The surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, was a devastating and horrific moment in American history. Young readers make decisions, and determine their own survival, by joining forces on the ground in the days and hours before and after the devastation in Decide and Survive: Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Don't forget: YOU, the reader, are in the driver's seat! This time, you're an eleven-year-old child of US naval military officers, enjoying life on the island, when the bombing begins. Your first decision is whether to go in search of your father or stay and protect your mother and sister. Along the way, readers are asked to protect half-Japanese classmates, save their abducted family, or even help raise Adolf Hitler to become a good person.

With each page turn YOU decide which way the story, and mystery, unravels. A book like no other to be used in a variety of ways challenges puzzle-solving readers and ignites a love of history for life. The perfect gift or educational book, slyly written as an interactive narrative adventure, will delight and enthrall avid and reluctant readers with its energy and excitement.

As an added educational bonus, extensive backmatter includes a timeline, information about the Japanese fighter planes, details about the nuclear bombings of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans in the US, Japanese stereotypes in American comic books of the time, and the Nanking Massacre.

About the Decide & Survive series: Your Call to Adventure! Dear Reader, this is your story. You control how history happens through the choices you make. Don't read this book from the first page to the last. Instead, follow the directions at the bottom of each page. When you're offered options, choose wisely because your decision could end in disaster as easily as triumph. No matter how your story ends, feel free to start over and create a different story with a new outcome. Adventure, mystery, danger, and fortune await. Good luck!