YOU are a New Englander with a bad case of gold fever. Gold has been discovered in California, and you want to go claim some for yourself. Will you strike it rich?
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Selected by Junior Library Guild for Fall 2007 --Junior Library Guild, October 2007
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Elizabeth Raum is a Coughlan Publishing author.
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Interactive Books are perfect for 4th grade!,
This review is from: The California Gold Rush: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose Books) (You Choose Books: An Interactive History Adventure) (Paperback)
I teach fourth grade and my students LOVE this book. They cannot get enough of it.
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the whole series is great,
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This review is from: The California Gold Rush: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose Books) (You Choose Books: An Interactive History Adventure) (Paperback)
I read these books with my 8-year-old daughter for fun. We play a game where one of us reads aloud and the other gets to make the choices of which path to take. In this volume, the main character is a young White man, and I guess that is a drawback since we don't get to explore the choices women had during the California Gold Rush and we don't learn anything about the Chinese in California. That's really the only negative... it's the history of white men, no doubt about that. The editors did a better job with the Irish Potato Famine volume, where the main character's gender is left ambiguous and only through making choices does the character develop a masculine or feminine identity.
I appreciate how the hallmark of a choose-your-own-adventure story, an untimely death, is maintained, but I also appreciate how the editors leave wiggle-room so that there is more than one way to achieve a happy ending to the journey. One of the possibilities here is, of course, striking it rich, but there are other options, such as becoming a merchant or returning back east having made a decent return on investment.
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Past / present,
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This review is from: The California Gold Rush: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose Books) (You Choose Books: An Interactive History Adventure) (Paperback)
I think it's time to reveille the whole truth and story about Californias history
when I was in elementary school through high school I always thinking why we have to learn part of it's history and not the whole thing to be more educated about it even were Americans we don't know much of our history as a whole nor we know anything about other countries which we should we had fallen waaay behind but at the same time why do we have to compete with other countries when it comes to education systems we need to compete with our home country / state/ our cities when it comes it education
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