Who Are You?

Choose Your Own Adventure #150

by Edward Packard, Frank Bolle (Illustrator)

Waking up in a ditch with no identification and no memory, the reader must survive an adventure with a street-smart runaway, a twisted family, and the producers of silver screen thrillers that all claim they have the answers. Original.

Genres: Choose Your Own Adventure, Gamebooks, Childrens

129 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1994

About the author

Edward Packard attended and graduated from both Princeton University and Columbia Law School. He was one of the first authors to explore the idea of gamebooks, in which the reader is inserted as the main character and makes choices about the direction the story will go at designated places in the text.

The first such book that Edward Packard wrote in the Choose Your Own Adventure series was titled "Sugarcane Island", but it was not actually published as the first entry in the Choose Your Own Adventure Series. In 1979, the first book to be released in the series was "The Cave of Time", a fantasy time-travel story that remained in print for many years. Eventually, one hundred eighty-four Choose Your Own Adventure books would be published before production on new entries to the series ceased in 1998. Edward Packard was the author of many of these books, though a substantial number of other authors were included as well.

In 2005, Choose Your Own Adventure books once again began to be published, but none of Edward Packard's titles have yet been included among the newly-released books.

Reviews

[T. R. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Talk about some extreme scenarios 😅

[Josiah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book, in my mind, encapsulates beautifully all that makes the Choose Your Own Adventure series a set of books that I love to read.
Edward Packard molds this truly exciting adventure perfectly, setting up strong stories in many different directions, all leading (you hope) eerily toward the conclusion that you want to reach from the beginning: Remembering who you are and finding your family. This is an extraordinarily well-written story, perhaps the best that Edward Packard or Choose Your Own Adventure has to offer. Magnificent.

[Reading with Cats · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring, plodding “adventure” based on the premise that no one would call 911 if they found a child on the side of the road with no memory 🙄

[Speck Rejk · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Edward Packard. And i love the premise and a bunch of great and insane things happen in this, But- the big big problem which EP didnt realize was that a person who wants to read " who am i?" Doesnt want to find their parents- they want to get lost in new paths, which this book does but only until he finds them and his identity-as soon as that happens, i stop reading because the adventures over:(. This book wouldve gotten 5 stars if EP just realized that the essence of what made the premise so great. Its like dorothy in oz and even alice in Wonderland- they keep saying they want to go home, which is fine as long as the author along with the viewer keep humouring them and luring them on...
Note: plo6 has one of the best " bad" endings of any cyoa!

[Sheila Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

the adventures that I went through when I was bored I just read these books over and over again you would never get to the end of the story.