One series Jill has written is called The Path You Choose. The books are written in a style where the reader is the main character, and they are asked to make choices throughout the book. The reader will not be reading the book straight through from front to back. As they read each story, they will be given a choice, and turn to the page corresponding with the path they choose.
These books are intended for readers from the 5th through 9th grade and the reader will learn that there are consequences to the choices they make in life. After reading one story all the way through, the reader will be able to go back and make a different choice and see what happens as the result of that choice. There are between thirteen and fifteen possible endings in The Path You Choose Books. What choice will you make?
Award-winning children’s author and public speaker
Making a difference for the next generation
Jill Ammon Vanderwood is the 2008 Writer of the Year for the League of Utah Writers. She is the author of thirteen books for children and young adults and one adult book—Shaking Behind the Microphone: Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking.
She grew up in Oregon, the third of eleven children. Jill and her husband Bill are parents of four and grandparents of nine, with four great-grandchildren. They have recently moved to Southern Idaho.
Jill loves going on adventures with her grandchildren. She loves to travel and tries to write something every day.