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by Katherine Factor (Author), Gabhor Utomo (Illustrator)
Save the world's greatest library in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 22 possible endings!
Choose Your Own Adventure books-the 4th bestselling children's series of all time-now include historical fiction, in which you're an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.It is circa 400 A.D. and YOU are a young person living in ancient Greece. You are studying with the powerful philosopher and mathematician, Hypatia. Hypatia's formulas and inventions will change the course of history, but she can't let go of an event from the past. She needs you to travel back in time to the age of Cleopatra in order to change history so the Library of Alexandria can be saved from destruction by fire. Can you do what's needed to preserve the world's most important knowledge? Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death. Recommended by teachers and librarians for educational features including:
- Classroom materials available upon request.
- Learn about ancient Egypt in this historical fiction story.
- Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.
Author Biography
Katherine Factor is a writer, editor, and educator. She has held positions as the Poet-in-Residence at Idyllwild Arts Academy and as the assistant editor of interrupture, a journal of poetry and art. She is a recipient of an Iowa Arts Council grant, an Augustana teaching fellowship, and a Squaw Valley Community of Writers scholarship. Her poems and audio work can be found in print and online at Interim, The Conversant, Quarterly West, Poets for Living Waters, The Equalizer, DIAGRAM, the Colorado Review, Coldfront s Poets off Poetry, and WFMU. Awe, art, travel, and ancient culture inspire her work a likely outcome of avidly reading Choose Your Own Adventure books as a child.
