Description: You are surrounded by the vast, unforgiving landscape of the coldest place on Earth: Antarctica. Even during the summer months, bone-chilling cold, raging blizzards, and treacherous ice threatens human survival. Will you: - Join the race to be the first to reach the South Pole? - Attempt to ski across the continent as part of an all-female expedition? - Study Antarctic plant and animal life as a scientist at a research station? Experience the life-or-death dilemmas of a place few people ever see. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to safety--or to doom.
Review Quotes: Both books blend facts and historical accuracy with the ability to make decisions about what happens to a character trying to stay alive. In Can You Survive the Titanic you can choose to be a first class passenger, a medical worker, or a third class passenger, and then attempt to survive the sinking (two-thirds of the passengers didn't). In Can You Survive Antarctica you can try to survive temperatures up to one hundred degrees below zero fahrenheit as either a modern explorer or with Scott and Amundsen in the early 1900's. Each has a basic section at the end that explains what happened to the real people that experienced these extremes. Why I picked it up: I was looking for quick reads for reluctant and low-ability readers, and these segmented, Choose Your Own Adventure-type books appealed to me because of their format. Why I finished it: I found myself madly flipping back and forth to see if I would be killed by a rogue leopard seal, or if I would drown in third class under a wave of oil-fouled water. I'd give it to: Wyatt, who would like the danger, because so many of the paths end in death. T.F., who has serious ADHD and would like the ability to stop and restart reading these without losing the narrative thread, because his attention waxes and wanes. http: //www.unshelved.com/bookclub/2011-7-22-- "Unshelved Book Shelf blog"