Choosing Your Way Through America's Past
Adventures from 1930s-1960s
by Anne E. Schraff

Stand against the anti-Communist witch hunts. Dare to integrate an all-white school. Risk your live crossing the Mexican border. You become the central character in these stories about important issues and events in our nation's history. At crucial points in each episode, you choose the next course of action. Then you read on to learn how the decition determins your fate. Each story has four possible endings. Stories are:

1. Dust Bowl Disaster (1933) -- With your Oklahoma farm being threatened by disasters, you must decide whether to stay there or move to California.
2. Helping on the Home Front (1943) -- As a young person helping the war effort, you must choose between planting a victory garden or writing to soldiers.
3. A Traitor at School? (1951) -- You must decide whether or not to sign the petition to fire a high school teacher accused of being a Communist.
4. Black and White Together (1958) -- As a black teenager you must choose between staying in your run-down old school or going to the newly integrated school.
5. Border Crossing (1962) -- You're a young Mexican who must decide whether to take your chances crossing the border into California or into Texas.
   

• Reading level: Young Adult
  
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Walch Education
  
• Date: 1995
  
• ISBN-10: 0825126185
• Category: History
  
• Condition: Like new, pages and spine intact, no rips or tears, no marks.
  

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