Choose Your Adventure (Laura)

1. ad-ven-ture (n): 1a: an undertaking usually involving danger and unknowable risks; 1b: the encountering of risks; 2: an exciting or remarkable experience*

Choose Your
Own Adventure

In the Choose Your Own Adventure books, created by Edward Packard in the late 1960s, readers get to make decisions that determine how the story progresses and how it ends. Books don't get much more adventurous than that, but now is your chance to focus on your favorite adventure stories whether they are CYOA or something else.

In adventure fiction, the protagonist experiences an exciting or dangerous event outside of their normal life. The story can include lots of physical action, like in The Hunger Games, or it can revolve around an animated child's toy far from home, as in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Below are just some classic or popular adventure stories as examples.


What are your favorites? Which ones would you like to experience, or are there any you can relate to? If you contracted to write a CYOA story, what would it involve?




The Miraculous Journey
of Edward Tulane

Thanks for sharing!



Laura

*Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition

Holes, by Louis Sachar

Eragon, by Christopher Paolini

Divergent, by Veronica Roth

The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling

Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen

A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle

The Artemis Fowl books, by Eion Colfer

The Maze Runner, by James Dashner

Graceling, by Kristin Cashore

The Scorpio Races

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordin

Red Queen, by Victoria Aveyard

Cress (The Lunar Chronicles), by Marissa Meyer


Attributions
The Cave of Time: http://www.amazon.com/Cave-Time-Choose-Your-Adventure/dp/0553232282
The Scorpio Races: http://www.amazon.com/Scorpio-Races-Maggie-Stiefvater/dp/0545334918
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane: http://www.amazon.com/Miraculous-Journey-Edward-Tulane/dp/0763625892