Can You Discover an Alien?: An Interactive Monster Hunt

by Cristina Oxtra

Overview

In this interactive chapter book, YOU are a reporter for a high-profile magazine, and you’re about to discover the greatest scoop yet: Do aliens exist? To find out, you’ll need to investigate some of history’s most infamous alien encounters, from Area 51 in Nevada to Fairbanks, Alaska. Will you discover a real-life alien being, or will your investigative probe be nothing more than a close encounter? It’s up to YOU! With dozens of choices, you can follow the clues to the end. Which path will YOU CHOOSE to discover the truth?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666336832
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	08/01/2022
Series:	You Choose: Monster Hunter
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.56(w) x 7.78(h) x 0.46(d)
Lexile:	680L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Cristina Oxtra is a Filipino American author. She earned an MFA in creative writing for children and young adults at Hamline University. She received the 2019–2020 Mirrors & Windows Fellowship for Indigenous writers and writers of color at the Loft Literary Center. She lives in Minnesota, where she enjoys spending time with family, cooking, baking, martial arts, supernatural and paranormal TV shows, and comic cons. Her website is at www.cristinaoxtra.com.

Interviews

An exciting new series in the bestselling YOU CHOOSE format! With multiple choices and endings, You Choose supports decision-making skills and encourages multiple readings;

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2022

Gr 4–7—This snappy, interactive series casts readers in the "roles" of cryptozoologists/investigative reporters on "missions" to hunt for intriguing cryptids. Typical of this type of fare, different paths are suggested to readers every few pages so they can select desired routes based on given possibilities. Various choices and story endings are offered, and with so many options, students have lots to read and reread in these slim volumes. While they "explore," readers, addressed with personal pronouns throughout, also learn facts about the monsters, e.g., their origins, locations, what's known about them, and where they've been seen. Each volume opens with an announcement of readers' "assignments"; the final chapter in each title no longer involves readers as investigators but sums up facts about the monster (or, in the case of the alien book, facts about extraterrestrial life and space exploration). Texts are lively, written in present tense, and use vernacular prose, keeping readers and their "assignments" immediate. Occasionally, things get gruesome, and "no one knows for sure" is the ultimate conclusion. Catchy, kid-appealing covers and atmospheric illustrations and photos enliven the proceedings; maps are used where needed. "More ___Sightings," a back-matter feature in each volume, contains examples of other, similar types of the cryptid. VERDICT Recommended for public and school collections. The series's clever premise offers some action-packed, entertaining reading opportunities for good as well as striving readers.

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