The Middle Ages: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: Historical Eras) by Allison Lassieur

The Middle Ages: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: Historical Eras) Reviews

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  Rosilind Jukic

  Good concept, stopped reading partway through
  
  We really enjoyed the moving through the interactive passages on the 1100s and 1200s, but when we got to The Plague, my son was visibly shaken by the options to stat with a dying man or leave him to die alone. My kids aren't usually disturbed easily. But these options made it far too personal. We did stop and talk about the fact that this was a reality for many. I just wish this portion of the book had been handled a little differently, seeing as it is a book for young readers.
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  Alex

  The concept of this one was really cool, but the three main choices weren’t as interesting as I was expecting. The third choice that had you encounter the Black Death was by far the best part, but the knight choice and the other one (being a royal? I can’t even remember) weren’t too great.
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  Jessica

  An educational, yet interesting way to approach history for young readers
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  Julie

  Living day to day in the Middle Ages was tough!
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  Sara

  A fun, choose your own adventure book with history mixed in
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  Dolly

  Our oldest brought this book home from her elementary school library. She has borrowed several of the
  You Choose historical adventure books and we really enjoy reading them together. I remember loving books like this in my childhood and I love that our girls are discovering them as well. I also like that this book has an educational component, teaching about the lives of people who lived in the Middle Ages.
  
  Overall, this book offers three different and very dramatic stories. We followed the lives of workers in an English castle, a craftsman in Italy, and English knights. The book includes nonfiction facts and historical notes, but the storylines are historical fiction, based on people who lived at that time in history.
  
  We enjoyed taking turns following the various paths and our girls were eager to return again and again until we'd followed them all. I am sure that our oldest will bring more books like this home from her school library.
  
  
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  Samantha Penrose

  This is choose your own adventure at it's finest!
  The book is divided into three separate sections, each section filled with a myriad of storyline options. You can fight battles as a knight in the 1100's, explore life in a royal castle in the 1200's, or, my personal favorite, experience the terror of the black plague in the 1300's.
  There are a few pages of applicable history lessons in the front and back of the book, as well as a timeline, suggested reading, and a few discussion starters.
  I love that learning history can be gritty, and fun.
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  Anna

  I thought having you choose the way to go was an interesting way of making information stick in your head. There were not very many happy endings.
  
  Here are some things I learned from this book. The symptoms of the black plague were black sores, usually under your arms. The crusades were the longest series of wars, lasting for about 200 years. The crusades were fought over the holy land, which both Muslims and Christians believed they should have all to themselves.