Alex Nino – illustratör

Sail ahoy! Travel back to the 17th century and become a swashbuckling pirate! Your mission is to find the wreck of the richest silver ship ever to sink in the Caribbean Sea, and bring back some of the treasure.The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it. James Gasperini has written several books in the Time Machine series.

When you read this Choose Your Own Adventure-type book, you''ll get more than an adventure. More than 10 years later, I still remember most of the storyline. But most importantly, this book introduces you to one of the many unsung Civil War heroes: Harriet Tubman. She was perhaps the best known member of the Underground Railroad and the fiction-based-on-fact adventures that you go through with her are really amazing. Every time I hear her name in history class my ear perk up because I know who they''re talking about. Very educational, very fun to read. If you find a copy, buy it and like the scorpion--don''t-let-go! -A ReviewerIt is the year 1860.You have traveled back to America in the days before the Civil War. A black woman named Harriet Tubman is running a secret network called the Underground Railroad to help slaves in the South escape to freedom in the North.You can search for Harriet and help her underground freedom fighters, or you can stay in the North and wait for her. Your decsion can lead you to safety or leave you stranded in time!Are you ready to face the danger?

Your mission is to go back in time and discover the identity of the man who fired the first shot of the American revolution, and bring back his musket.From 1775 to 1781, the thirteen colonies on the North American continent fought a war of independence from England, then the mightiest power in the world.By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April''s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.So begins Ralph Waldo Emerson?s famous poem ""Concord Hymn,"" sung at the dedication of the Battle Monument in 1837.Even then, the identity of the man who fired the first shot of the war, beginning the Battle of Lexington and Concord, in April 1775, was a mystery.The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it.