Search for the Black Rhino

by Alison Gilligan, Gabhor Utomo, Vladimir Semionov

Search for the Black Rhino by Alison Gilligan takes YOU on a daring and dangerous adventure with your parents and uncle Bennett in Africa. 9-12 year old readers will help get to the bottom of the sabotage threatening the family company, encounter flamingoes, baboons, and other wildlife on safari, make new friends while visiting a Masai village, and help take down a poaching ring threatening the black rhinos. Choose Your Own Adventure Search for the Black Rhino is an interactive adventure book in which YOU decide what happens next. You have been looking forward to this Spring Break for months - a trip to Africa with your parents! But who is the mysterious "LJ" you overhear your mother's boss warning her about? How is the FBI involved? Who might be tampering with your family's coffee business? And what dangers are facing the wildlife - or you - in the grasslands around Lake Nakuru? For readers that enjoyed other titles from the Choose Your Own Adventure series Race Forever by R. A. Montgomery, The Lost Jewels of Nabooti by R. A. Montgomery, and Search for the Mountain Gorillas by Jim Wallace.

Genres: Choose Your Own Adventure, Childrens

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2011

Reviews

[Dane Barrett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great story, though there could have been more choices.

This Choose Your Own Adventure book, while entitled "Search for the Black Rhino", is actually more of an overall adventure story set in Kenya which *might* involve black rhinos if you follow a certain path, but may just as likely involve coffee bean auctions or spending a night with a local tribe looking for honey. All of the sections are written in an engaging style and tell a fun and interesting yarn.

If I had one criticism, which isn't levelled expressly at this book, is that Chooseco's latest CYOA adventure books don't have as creative branching narratives as they used to have in their earlier editions. This book, while a great read, only has a few choices to make, and otherwise tends to run on autopilot. Its not a dealbreaker, but this may as well have been a straightforward book written in a linear style.

Still a great read and you might even learn something about Kenya!

[Patrick Book · Rating 3 out of 5]

There’s very little rhino in this book, but it was fun!

[Mandyalam0de · Rating 5 out of 5]

My son and I on our first try, survived!

[Courtney Chappell · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this book at work while waiting for kids at work. I only read a few endings. I have always loved choose your own adventure book so I liked being able to read one again.