What If . . . Everyone Knew Your Name by Liz Ruckdeschel

When I was younger, about 11-12 years old, I used to read the Choose Your Own Adventure books. The characters aren't particularly three-dimensional, but I guess they have to be simple enough so that it is believable that they would make any one of the very different choices you choose from. It's a cool concept, though, and a fun read, especially since you can read it more than once, with a different story and outcome. If you're all about finding out what will happen, this book might not be for you, because you decide what happens. While an interesting idea, and fairly well-written, this book isn't for everyone. You decide who she wants to be friends with and what crowd she wants to be a part of. You make every little decision for her, even the ones that seem really minor, like riding the bus to school or getting a ride from her father. She starts out average, so that the reader can pretty much choose everything that happens to her as the story goes on. The story is about Haley, a fairly average fifteen-year-old girl who has just moved to suburban New Jersey and is starting at her first public high school.

It's a lot like those Choose Your Own Adventure books you read as a kid. WHAT IF.EVERYONE KNEW YOUR NAME is an interesting idea. or will you? It’s all in the way you work, love, and play with Haley Miller, the girl with the most potential at Hillsdale High. With Haley’s many positive traits, you should have no trouble achieving success. Her grades, her friends, her love life, her future. And decide whether she drinks or inhales. Give Haley a makeover or teach her to love herself the way she is.

or have her skip the dance to go on a road trip with the hot rebel. Do you guide her away from the pitfalls of peer pressure? Or into the vortex of bad boys and parties? Send her to homecoming with the captain of the soccer team. In this interactive novel, readers lead Haley through the halls of Hillsdale High for better or for worse. Installed in her first public high school, Haley faces the toughest choices of her young life. She’s a 15-year-old girl of average height, average weight, and an average sense of style.

What If . . . Everyone Knew Your Name by Liz Ruckdeschel