The Hit the Trail!: The Race to Chimney Rock / Danger at the Haunted Gate

The Oregon Trail #1-2

by Jesse Wiley

Go west, young pioneer--your journey begins here! Inside you'll find two books in The Race to Chimney Rock and Danger at the Haunted Gate. In these first two legs of your trek on the Oregon Trail, you need to find your way to prominent landmarks Chimney Rock and Devil's Gate--but not without unpredictable challenges ahead. Natural disasters, disease, and dishonest people are challenges you'll face in the wild frontier. Make the right choices and make it halfway to your final destination in Oregon Territory!

Genres: Choose Your Own Adventure

280 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 8, 2019

Reviews

[Beth Given · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm a Xennial, so my inner child absolutely loved this Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book themed after the Oregon Trail computer game. The storylines are more complex than the simple game: you learn to trap squirrels rather than hunt them, and fording the river is more complicated than just seeing how deep it is (should you go straight across or at a diagonal?). The endings aren't all death, though some endings really do end with the iconic line "you have died of dysentery." The "proper" ending of this book (which is actually the second book in the series) only gets the wagon train to Devil's Gate ... I'm tempted to pick up the other books in the others so I can make it to Oregon!

[Michael Beyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This choose-your-own-adventure book isha the best book of its kind that I have ever read. If it were written out as a typical YA historical novel, it would still be an excellent tool in junior high reading, English, or history classes. But the alternative encounters and events you get along the way make it so much richer and entertaining. I have taught hundreds of reluctant readers that would truly love this book.

[Madison Haut · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am not a huge fan of these because I get to make the choices and I don't normally read a book that way and no matter what I can't do it right. It just makes me angry but the story was good. Not a full story thought because the end was all I saw.

[PottWab Regional Library]

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