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Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Running Out of Time

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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This book was really good but really odd. Jessie is going on a big adventure. She's time traveling from the 1840's to the 1990's! well...sorta. read it to see what im talking about ( )
hippieJ | May 21, 2009 |  
This novel is intreging and imaginative. This book takes place in 1840 and 1996. When diptheria strikes the village and children start dying, Jessie's mother tells her a crazy secret that she never expected. The village is a popular tourist attraction: a historical preserve, and the actual year is 1996. Jesse has to go out into the new and modern world and find help. There are more secrets in this new world than Jesse ever thought. ( )
okmliteracy4 | Feb 2, 2009 |  
Running Out of Time is a Wonderful book . It gives you the prospective of what it would be like to travel to the future, and the things you would think would call miracles and can't figure out, but everyone else a round you takes for granted. ( )
yachty | Jan 10, 2009 |  
Running Out of Time
written by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The last time I read this book was in the 4th grade upon entering the Gateway program. I loved it then, although I found some of the terminology hard to get through. Reading it when I'm older, it's still as good as ever plotwise, and gave me the additional depth of knowing exactly what I was reading, as well as picking up some things I missed the first time around. Reading the second time around, I also noticed lots and lots of hints that I missed the first time (ex: her teacher constantly asking the class what the current year is). The book, despite the fact that I knew exactly what was going to happen, still read as a really heart-thumping, suspenseful adventure, albeit with some laggy places (still as interesting, just not really adding to the plot). Jessie's story and well-created character is really an inspiration to kids, letting them know they can do wacky things they'd never even dream of doing, like holding a press conference! I think it would have been really nice to see a 5 years later, whether in the form of a sequel or just a quick epilogue, letting us know how they've adjusted to society, what they're still missing, what becomes of everything.

Rating: 4.5/5 ( )
Runa | Dec 30, 2008 |  
M. Night Shyamalan's favorite book. This is actually pretty creative as far as children's books are concerned, although I wouldn't recommend it to adults. ( )
Holland1945 | Dec 22, 2008 |  
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To Doug, and in loving memory of Myrtle Peterson. With thanks to Marilee Peterson, Dr. K. W. Chan, and Creg Stockwell for help with medical and pharmaceutical information.
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The light woke Jessie, though it was just a glimmer downstairs. She eased out of bed, being careful not to disturb her sister Hannah.
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A sicknesss is in Jessie's 1840 world and she is the only one who can get the treatment. She discovers a new world that she must learn to survive by herself

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0689800843, Hardcover)

Run For Your Life

Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana, in 1840 -- or so she believes. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother reveals a shocking secret -- it's actually 1996, and they are living in a reconstructed village that serves as a tourist site. In the world outside, medicine exists that can cure the dread disease, and Jessie's mother is sending her on a dangerous mission to bring back help.

But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a world even more alien and threatening than she could have imagined, and soon she finds her own life in jeopardy. Can she get help before the children of Clifton, and Jessie herself, run out of time?

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:02 -0400)

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