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The California Gold Rush: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose Books)

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Author: Elizabeth Raum
Publisher: Capstone Press
Category: Book

Buy New: $6.95
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 112
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.3

ISBN: 1429611790
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.404
EAN: 9781429611794
ASIN: 1429611790

Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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•	ISBN13: 9781429611794
•	Condition: NEW
•	Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Describes the events of the nineteenth century California gold rush. Readers choices reveal historical details of how miners traveled, how they looked for gold, and their impact on Californias history.

Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars

Interactive Books are perfect for 4th grade! March 8, 2009
K. Hemrich
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I teach fourth grade and my students LOVE this book. They cannot get enough of it.

5 out of 5 stars

the whole series is great October 6, 2008
J. Stout (Portsmouth, Ohio)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

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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