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What If . . . Everyone Knew Your Name (A Choose Your Destiny Novel)

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all books were this good? I saw it in a bookstore and thought it looked interesting. It is about a girl named Haley Miller who just moved from California to New Jersey. The first 15 pages are about her, but on the 16th page you get to decide what she does next. At the end of every chapter it says something in bold text: if you want Haley to pet her dog go to page 27. If you want her to go to the party, go to page 32 (that was a made up EXAMPLE!). The first time I read the book she was a popular girl and ended up getting the guy. The second time I read it, she met new people and set them up on a date! This is not only an awsome book, it is also an interesting concept. Reading a book where you get to chose how it goes, with out actually writing anything? AWSOME! This book isn't just interesting, it also teaches a lesson: Every action has a consequence. Sure, everyone hears that all the time, but this book actually shows its true. After reading What if...Everyone Knew Your Name for the second time I realized how different your life can be if you choose just one thing over another. This book is great on so many levels, I recommend you buy it today! (It makes me want to write a choose your destiny story!)

WHAT IF...EVERYONE KNEW YOUR NAME is an interesting idea. It's a lot like those Choose Your Own Adventure books you read as a kid. The story is about Haley, a fairly average fifteen-year-old girl who has just moved to suburban New Jersey and is starting at her first public high school. She starts out average, so that the reader can pretty much choose everything that happens to her as the story goes on.

You make every little decision for her, even the ones that seem really minor, like riding the bus to school or getting a ride from her father. You decide who she wants to be friends with and what crowd she wants to be a part of. You decide everything about her.

While an interesting idea, and fairly well-written, this book isn't for everyone. If you're all about finding out what will happen, this book might not be for you, because you decide what happens. It's a cool concept, though, and a fun read, especially since you can read it more than once, with a different story and outcome. The characters aren't particularly three-dimensional, but I guess they have to be simple enough so that it is believable that they would make any one of the very different choices you choose from. This book is fun, but not a must-read.

Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce

The book What If... Everyone Knew Your Name by Liz Ruckdescel and Sara James was a realistic fiction novel about a girl who's family takes a road trip, moving from the Golden State of California to the Garden State of New Jersey. She moves to a new school called Hillsdale High and needs to know how she can fit in.

Haley Miller, the 15 year old going into a public school for the first time is scared and ready to be friends with anyone she can. While she wishes she didn't ever move, she meets a neighbor whom she thinks is very god looking. She befriends him and others while the story takes its twists and turns.

I really liked this book because of the way it was, how you got to choose what she did. It really makes you feel as if its you living in the book, not Haley. The book takes you through the up and downs of high school and you get to control everything; her friends, her grades, her love life, her future. You don't know how it will turn out either, so that makes it suspenseful, just like real life because you never know what life will throw at you next. For all you know in the book, Haley could be invited to the next big party, and make a bad decision and drink, or you could have her not take the drink and it turns out the stud she's looking at, doesn't like alcohol either.

I really enjoyed this book and I can't wait to read the other one like it called "What If... All the Boys Wanted You." It sounds just as interesting as the first one they wrote and I can't wait to see what that book throws at Haley this time.

I strongly recommend this book for any teen who likes books that will take them through the happy, and not so happy parts of high school. Some of these things in the book can really teach you some stuff you can use in real life, like many novels about teens. So if you are into real life situations, I defiantly recommend this book to you. It was a great read, and I couldn't put it down until I finished it.

Fab-U-lous, end of story. Buy it, read it, and then read it again. Seriously, you can read it over and over and everytime it's different and interesting. It really shows that life is what you make of it and the desicions you make really affect your life.

This is a great book!!! I have read it three times already and each "Destiny" has gotten better.

In this day in age it is hard to make books as exciting and entertaining as the WB channel in the minds of a lot of teenagers, but the What If books are bringing that kind of excitement back to reading. There is so much to talk about with these books -- which choices you made, what happens, etc that it is fun to go back and re-read many times. The dialogue and character descriptions really make the whole book come alive so that I truly feel like I know what it must be like to be a teenager in Jersey -- scary thought! Truly a great new series!!!

A delightful summer "must" read for young teens. This fast-paced first novel of Liz Ruckdeschel and Sara Janes will find you reading this book over and over. "What If..." involves the reader every step of the way to make courageous choices. It is adventuresome, intriquing, fun and mysterious.

I cannot wait for the second book of the series to come out. "What If...All The Boys Wanted You."

My mom brings home books all the time for me to read because she tells me that its better then when I watch TV. Its like she tries to pretend she doesnt know tv is more fun. So when she brought this book home I just groaned like here we go again. But then it was so much fun and I kept reading it through all the differnt ways. But I dont want her to think that now she can bring home more books! (I do want to read the next one, so when does it come out?)

"What If...Everyone Knew Your Name" is a fantastic and funny and heartwarming adventure in which the reader gets to decide the fate of the main character...I mean, does it get any cooler than that??? Haley Miller is such a great character and I can't wait to see what choices she/I will have to make in the next book!

What a great book and can't wait for the second on to come out this fall!!!! It's about time they made a choose your own destiny/adventure for girls.