The Race to the Moon: An Interactive History Adventure

by Allison Lassieur

Its the 1950s and 1960s, and the United States and Soviet Union are in a race to be the first to reach the moon. Will Participate in the space race as a young scientist working on early rocket technology? Experience the space race as a reporter following space firsts in both the Soviet Union and the United States? Work as a member of Mission Control during the 1969 moon landing? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to opportunity, to glory, to shattered dreams, or even to death.

Genres: Space, Historical Fiction

112 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2014

About the author

A professional freelance author who began her career in publishing as an avid D&D player, Lassieur worked for thirteen years in the publishing industry as an editor for magazines such as Disney Adventures and Highlights for Children.

She's edited game products for TSR, West End Games, and Sierra Online. In addition, she has more than two dozen nonfiction children's books to her credit and has contributed to such magazines as National Geographic World and Scholastic News.

Lassieur lives and works in Eastern Pennsylvania.

Reviews

[josie march]

Not the most exciting one, but the kids love talking about the moon and Artemis II

[Kim]

I had been years since I read a "choose your own adventure" book. (And by years, I mean probably 35.) My students love these! I was happy with this one. Great information in a very accessible format. Hopefully it will inspire students to research or read more on the topic.

[Chris]

This book was awesome

I liked how you could choose different paths.
I would recommend this book to my friend.
I gave it a three out of five star rating because I kind of liked it because you could choose your own path but I've also seen better books and worse.

[Brandy]

A historical choose-your-own-adventure book, there are three storylines presented with 55 choices and 19 different endings. The reader can select to understand the perspective of a German scientist working for NASA after World War II, a jet-setting reporter following the space “firsts” in America and Russia, or a member of mission control working in Houston during the 1969 moon landing mission.

While I enjoyed the idea of "living" the space race through multiple perspectives, I found it difficult to track the history of this era in a choose your own adventure style book. I didn't live during this time period, but I feel like emotions were much stronger and the feeling that there was more at stake (like the future of the free world) than is presented in the book. Personally, I feel that choose your own adventure should stick to fiction.

[Juan]

good book

[Alex]

Eh. Every choice leads to the same outcome, and a lot of the stories were repeated from other books in this series.

[raccoon reader]

This might the first choose your own adventure book my son has read. We have read it a bunch. I remember these as a kid and it was so much fun to read together!

[RaeAnn]

This one was more dry for a kid then some of the other you chose books, but I enjoyed it.

[Cherie Nef]

A fun and factual "choose your own adventure' type book. Excellent for the school library.