Can You Survive a Global Blackout?: An Interactive Doomsday Adventure

by Matt Doeden, James Southall (Illustrator)

Overview

No computers. No lights. No phones. No running water. The world plunged into darkness and chaos. Could you survive a global blackout? When YOU CHOOSE what to do next, the choices you make could mean the difference between life and death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781491459232
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/08/2015
Series:	You Choose: Doomsday Series
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	474,496
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.30(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Matt Doeden is a freelance author and editor from Minnesota. He’s written numerous children’s books on sports, music, current events, the military, extreme survival, and much more. His books Sandy Koufax (Twenty-First Century Books, 2006) and Tom Brady: Unlikely Champion (Twenty-First Century Books, 2011) were Junior Library Guild selections. Doeden began his career as a sports writer before turning to publishing. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children.

Table of Contents

Out go the lights — An electric world — Global blackouts survival guide.

Interviews

A full-length story helps build the plot and develop the characters more deeply. The nonfiction chapter/epilogue gives information about the topics that have happened or could happen in real life. The one-spread survival guide is a fun way for kids to imagine how they would prepare for the doomsday event. Engaging narrative nonfiction Choose your own path format puts kids in the driver's seat.

Editorial Reviews

Both a terrific example of, and a marvelous introduction to, the Choose Your Own Adventure genre, Can You Survive a Global Blackout? places you in a doomsday scenario and then leaves the choices up to you. . . .Granted, there aren’t an overwhelming number of choices, but the choices available do lead to many varied outcomes, some optimistic, some brutally dark. (There are even several possible explanations for the blackout, depending on your choices.) With a bonus list of tips for surviving a blackout, this isn’t just a “what if?” book, it could easily be a “what will you do when?” book.

Manhattan Book Review