The Great Puffle Switch

Disney Club Penguin: Pick Your Path #4

by Tracey West

Based on the incredibly popular virtual world for kids, this is a "Disney's Club Penguin Pick Your Path" adventure, where you decide how the story ends! You've magically swapped places with your puffle! Where will your path take you as you explore the world of Club Penguin and make other puffle friends? The choice is yours ...Collect all the "Pick Your Path" books in the series, and go online to unlock Club Penguin items with each book.

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Fantasy

80 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2010

About the author

Tracey West is the New York Times bestselling author of Dragon Masters, a series in the Scholastic Branches line. She has written more than 400 books for kids, including the Pixie Tricks series and the Underdogs series with Kyla May.

Some readers also know Tracey for writing books based on animation such as Pokémon and LEGO Ninjago.

She currently lives in the western Catskills of New York with her husband, Bill; their adopted dogs; and a whole mess of chickens.

Reviews

[Sterrett Family]

Daniel: Honestly, I think this was actually pretty dull. A lot of times I ended up with the same ending.
But that's up to you. Needless to say, I don't think the series has been continued. I hope I read a much
better book this year.

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

Book #: 9
Title: The Great Puffle Switch (Club Penguin CYOA #4)
Author: Tracey West
Popsugar Category: Advanced: A "choose your own adventure" book
Popsugar Category: Advanced: A book with no chapters, unusual chapter headings, or unconventionally numbered chapters
Popsugar Category: Basic: A book with a plant in the title or on the cover
Popsugar Category: Basic: A book that takes place in a single day
Goodreads Category: A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y
Goodreads Category: A book related to something cold (i.e. theme, title, author, cover, etc.)
Book Riot Category: A book published prior to January 1, 2019, with fewer than 100 reviews on Goodreads (53 ratings)
A-Z Title: G for Great
A-Z Author: W for West
Format: Paperback, Second Hand Store Purchase
Rating: ** two out of five stars

Club Penguin is Disney's Massive Multiplaying Online Game (MMO) for kids 5 to 15. Kids can create their penguin avatar (available in a variety of colors) and his pet puffle (picture a tribble with eyes, also available in a variety of colors) and buy clothes and accessories for both and play a variety of children's games, like match-up. The CYOA books are a spin-off. Needless to say, I'm not the target audience. The only reason I bothered with the book at all was to cross off a category. CYOA books are not my cup of tea or can of beer. I think it says something that they didn't allow the author to have her name on the cover or spine.

You and your puffle PJ (both green, BTW) have a Freaky Friday moment and switch bodies. You decide to find Gary the Gadget Guy to see if he has a gadget that can switch you back. You wander around locations in the MMO doing things trying to find Gary. Being somewhat OCD, I didn't consider the book finished until I had followed ALL of the paths. 16 endings, 20 pages on average, the majority of endings were positive (switched back), a few negative (no switch) and a couple simply left me hanging. My first run thru I got a longer story with a positive ending. A couple of things struck me as odd. I expected all choices to be nearly equal in length. But often, when given two choices, one continued the story while the other ended it on the next page. Also, given the commonality of the story lines with them visiting different locations in the MMO, I expected some of the story lines to merge back together. I don't know if either of these is unusual in CYOA, and I'm not really interested in reading more to find out.

[Maxx Salls · Rating 3 out of 5]

Traded this book today at a little free library. I decided it looked cool especially seeing how I grew up always playing with friends on club penguin when I was younger before it got shut down. Miss cp so much but this book is good. Definitely good how you can pick what happened. Would say this book is probably 7+ depending on you or your child’s reading level.

[Deandre P · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had hecca fun with this 🗿🗿

[Tobi ﾄﾋﾞ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can’t believe I read all of these I

[Rhuan Contardi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maior doidera, adorei

[dwayne · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was the first book i taught myself how to read with :3 the teachers wouldn't help me, so younger me said "i like club penguin, let me try and read this" and the rest is history. 11/10.

[Amélie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute choose-your-own-adventure book. I read it for a reading challenge, being a quick read, and I do recommend it for families. I'm way past the age to read these books (level-wise), but I still enjoyed it. I found the characters very cute and entertaining. The author had alot of imagination, creating a story like this one.

[Carrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Children will have fun choosing their own adventure in this Disney Club Penguin book. Penguin and puffle have magically switched bodies and go on an adventure to switch back. Lots of bouncing back and forth. Entertaining read, though, and one that allows children to make choices.

[Isdlions · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is about a puffle that switches bodies with his penguin.It is so fun Because sometimes you have to make a decision.(Example: If yo want to ___, go to page ___.) So it means that there is Thousands of different endings! IT IS REALLY COOL!

~Alan