The Haunted House
by R. A. Montgomery
Choose Your Own Adventure: Dragonlark (book 1), Choose Your Own Adventure Younger Readers (2)
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An adventure story featuring a dog that disappears into an abandoned, possibly haunted, house. The reader makes choices throughout the story which will determine the outcome.Tags
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The "young readers" series isn't quite as well written as the middle grade, unfortunately. I think even if the reader were an early reader the book would seem too tame and odd. There weren't any ghosts in the haunted house, but there was a weird, oddly placed woman in white who floated on a sunbeam like apparition to the sky. Think more like an angel that anything spooky. I just feel this would be a little disappointing even to a smaller child.
Picked this up at a garage sale a few years ago, not realizing that it isn't part of the main Choose Your Own Adventure series that I loved as a kid. It's for younger readers. I'm not particularly impressed with this one, but it could be just great for the targeted age group. My problem with it? The story jumps around too much. None of the choices really matter story-wise, because the next page in that sequence almost always goes off in another direction. Consequently, there's little coherence to the book.
Too young, infantile, and leaps-and-boundish for me.
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R. A. Montgomery was born in Connecticut in 1936. He graduated from Williams College and attended graduate school at Yale University and New York University. In 1975, he co-founded Vermont Crossroads Press to publish books for young readers. In 1977, the Choose Your Own Adventure series started when he published Ed Packard's interactive children's show more book Sugarcane Island. He wrote the second book in the series, Journey Under the Sea, using the pen name Robert Mountain. After selling his interest in the publishing house, he took the series to Bantam, where he, Packard, and others wrote the books. In 2000, Bantam stopped publishing new books in the series. In 2003, Montgomery and his wife founded Chooseco, which re-launched the series. He wrote over fifty books for the series including Gus vs. the Robot King, which was published in September 2014. He died on November 9, 2014 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Haunted House
- Original publication date
- 1981
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- 306
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- 104,722
- Reviews
- 3
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- (3.00)
- Languages
- Catalan, English, French, Spanish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 14
- ASINs
- 1
