Off Target: The Path You Choose - #1 - Softcover

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• Off Target is the recipient of the Silver Mom’s Choice Award

  --Jill Ammon Vanderwood’s interactive social issues book for young adults and preteens, Off Target: The Path You Choose #1, is a stark and realistic workbook designed to help kids figure out what to do when the unthinkable occurs. … Kerah Diez and Trevor Brown’s graphic illustrations are dynamic and direct, making the reader feel even more a part of this interactive book. This book may save lives -- it’s that good. Off Target: The Path You Choose #1 is most highly recommended. Jack Magnus for Reader’s Favorite

  …this is an accomplished work which is socially conscious and also interesting for middle grade students and up to read. I feel that Off Target is best suited as a morality work that could be read in groups at school, with parents, or in youth groups to explore the different possibilities of the choices before readers select the page to turn. K.C. Finn

  Off Target: The Path You Choose #1—which asks the question: What would you do if someone showed you a loaded gun?

  **This book is written for a preteen to younger teen audience. Off Target is recommended for grades 5-8.**

  What would you do if your friend showed you a loaded gun?

• You are new in town and it’s your first day at a new school. Your neighbor, Trevor, introduces you to a group of three boys and two girls.
• Right away, you notice that Eric, one of the guys, is being bullied by kids at school.

• When you go to Eric’s house with your new friends, he shows the group a fully loaded handgun that his mother left in her nightstand.

• You, the reader, are faced with some hard choices when someone suggests that Eric should take the gun to school.
• What should you do? It’s time to choose a path:
• If you’re worried that Eric will take the gun to school—continue on page 7.
• If you decide to take the gun to prevent anyone from being hurt—continue on page 9.
• If you leave the house with the others and plan to come back for target practice the next day—continue on page 10.

• Off Target is the first book in The Path You Choose series. You, the reader, determine the outcome by the choices you make. Once you read one story, go back and choose a different story. There are thirteen possible endings in this book. What path will you choose?

• There are four books in this series, covering many social issues.
• The books do not need to be read in a specific order

• Also, in this series:

• On The Rocks: The Path You Choose #2
• Cheers! The Path You Choose #3
• Keeping Secrets: The Path You Choose #4

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