What If... Everyone Knew Your Name?: A Choose Your Destiny Novel

by Liz Ruckdeschel and Sara James

Book Overview

Meet Haley Miller. She s a 15-year-old girl of average height, average weight, and an average sense of style. Installed in her first public high school, Haley faces the toughest choices of her young... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385732961
• ISBN13: 9780385732963
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

What If... Everyone Knew Your Name

The book What If... Everyone Knew Your Name by Liz Ruckdescel and Sara James was a realistic fiction novel about a girl who's family takes a road trip, moving from the Golden State of California to the Garden State of New Jersey. She moves to a new school called Hillsdale High and needs to know how she can fit in. Haley Miller, the 15 year old going into a public school for the first time is scared and ready to be friends with anyone she can. While she wishes she didn't ever move, she meets a neighbor whom she thinks is very god looking. She befriends him and others while the story takes its twists and turns. I really liked this book because of the way it was, how you got to choose what she did. It really makes you feel as if its you living in the book, not Haley. The book takes you through the up and downs of high school and you get to control everything; her friends, her grades, her love life, her future. You don't know how it will turn out either, so that makes it suspenseful, just like real life because you never know what life will throw at you next. For all you know in the book, Haley could be invited to the next big party, and make a bad decision and drink, or you could have her not take the drink and it turns out the stud she's looking at, doesn't like alcohol either. I really enjoyed this book and I can't wait to read the other one like it called "What If... All the Boys Wanted You." It sounds just as interesting as the first one they wrote and I can't wait to see what that book throws at Haley this time. I strongly recommend this book for any teen who likes books that will take them through the happy, and not so happy parts of high school. Some of these things in the book can really teach you some stuff you can use in real life, like many novels about teens. So if you are into real life situations, I defiantly recommend this book to you. It was a great read, and I couldn't put it down until I finished it.

What if...

all books were this good? I saw it in a bookstore and thought it looked interesting. It is about a girl named Haley Miller who just moved from California to New Jersey. The first 15 pages are about her, but on the 16th page you get to decide what she does next. At the end of every chapter it says something in bold text: if you want Haley to pet her dog go to page 27. If you want her to go to the party, go to page 32 (that was a made up EXAMPLE!). The first time I read the book she was a popular girl and ended up getting the guy. The second time I read it, she met new people and set them up on a date! This is not only an awsome book, it is also an interesting concept. Reading a book where you get to chose how it goes, with out actually writing anything? AWSOME! This book isn't just interesting, it also teaches a lesson: Every action has a consequence. Sure, everyone hears that all the time, but this book actually shows its true. After reading What if...Everyone Knew Your Name for the second time I realized how different your life can be if you choose just one thing over another. This book is great on so many levels, I recommend you buy it today! (It makes me want to write a choose your destiny story!)

Fab

Fab-U-lous, end of story. Buy it, read it, and then read it again. Seriously, you can read it over and over and everytime it's different and interesting. It really shows that life is what you make of it and the desicions you make really affect your life.

The possibilities are endless

This is a great book!!! I have read it three times already and each "Destiny" has gotten better.

So cool!

What a great book and can't wait for the second on to come out this fall!!!! It's about time they made a choose your own destiny/adventure for girls.