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Summary: Five Steps into the Future
Review: Running Out of Time, is a good book written by Margaret Peterson. It tells about a young girl named Jessie living in 1840,in a peaceful small town called Clifton, but soon diphtheria, a deadly disease, comes to her town.
Just after it comes, she learns from her mother that out side Clifton it is 1996! Her mother informs her that Clifton is a historical preserve. A historical preserve is a place where the people in it, pretend like they were living in a different time.
When Jessie's sister gets diphtheria, Jessie's mother sends her into the alien out side world, to get medicine for the children of Clifton. She must get over a barbed wire fence and remain unseen by cameras in almost every tree. There are guards at every exit, and confusing things called radios torment her while she tries to leave. Many people do not want her to leave. They seem to want all the children in Clifton to die. This is a good book for anyone ages of 11 and up, it is be a good book for boys and girls. If you do not like quickly moving plots, you should be prepared for a fast slightly confusing book. Also this book has many smaller plots, so if you only like one plot, do not read it.
I enjoyed this book, mostly because of the way the author described the way it felt to be seeing a TV and hearing a radio, when all your life no such thing could exist.
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Summary: Great and Scary
Review: Review by Savannah, age 8. I recently read Running Out Of Time. After I read it I thought I would never read another book besides that one again. But of course I did. I think this book is wonderful because it is exciting, suspenseful and interesting. I felt like I was with Jessie, or even her. It also has a great plot, which starts it off well. This is the plot: Jessie Keyser lives with her family in a town named Clifton in 1849- she thinks, until her mother tells her the truth. They live in a reconstructed town made to look old fashioned. And it is really 1996, and the town they live in is a tourist sight! Jessie's mother shared this surprising secret because the children in their town are getting a deadly disease and Jessie is expected to go out into the real world and bring back help and medicine. With a mix of finding out a man is planning a murder, and a child calling a press conference, this book is definitely one of the best books in the world. I give this book 5 stars and it sure deserves it! P.S. Warning! This is a Scary book! But it is so good! If you do not read it you are missing out.
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Summary: Running Out of History
Review: Jessie finds out it's not the 1800's. It's 1996 and the children are dying from diphtheria because of some experiment to have modern families immune to disease. The people of Clifton need help, and Jessie must venture into 1996 to get the cure.
She has to find out how to use the phone and other electronics to save the children of Clifton. She must save them before time runs out.
I liked the book very much. I think it would be a good book for children in grades 4-6. It is a book you can't put down and very well written. Good job Margaret Peterson Haddix!
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Summary: Read Running Out Of Time..... Don't Waste Time
Review: Thirteen year old Jessie Keyser lives in a village in Clifton, Indiana with her family. She lives in the year 1840, but outside of Clifton there's a much larger world. It's 1996.
In the village of Clifton, diphtheria begins to grow. Her mother wants her to go outside of Clifton to get help, but she doesn't think it's right because it's dangerous. Her mother tells her to go outside of Clifton, so Jessie does. She's supposed to call a man named Mr.Neely. There are a lot of things she doesn't know.
I thought the book Running Out Of Time was a very enjoyable book because it was cool to try and see what Jessie would do in the modern world. The writing was very descriptive. I would recommend this book to people who like adventure and people between the ages of 9 through 14.
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Summary: Totally weird book......
Review: The fates of her family and friends are in her hands.
Jessie is a normal 19th century girl. She thinks she lives in Clifton in 1840. There is a diphtheria epidemic in Clifton, and Jessie finds out that in the real world it is 1996, and that she lives in a historical tourist site. People are dying from the disease, and only in the future there is medicine that can save them. Jessie must set out on a journey to save the people of Clifton.
I think this book is okay, and I'm running out of good books to read, so that's a plus. I think the storyline is a little bit too linear for my taste, and at the end the plot just sort of disintegrates. Then there are another forty pages or so, give or take 40, where nothing happens. Margaret Peterson Haddix just sort of takes the ending to the Nth degree, and so it gets boring. Besides the cons I just mentioned, this book is all in all not such a bad book. I would recommend it to teens who are not looking for any particular book, or they're looking for a weird book, because this book certainly has a lot of weirdness.
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Summary: i wish i could give it a 4.5
Review: loved this book. it has a great concept, a fantastic story line, but the charecters could use some developing. running out of time could be longer, and that would only make it better. though, i must admit it had me thinking about whether or not it's really 2004 or not, who knows? maybe we live in a tourist attraction, and out side this little experimental world, there are aleins living in 4011? anyway, but this book, it wouldn't be a waste of money.
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Summary: Bright Eyed And Bushy Tailed
Review: If you want an adventurous book, you should read Running Out Of Time. The author of Running Out Of Time is Margaret Peterson Haddix. It was published in 1995.
In this story a girl named Jesse lives in a village called clifton. Some people in Clifton get a disease.This causes Jesse's mom to send her out in the real world. Before Jesse left her mom gave her a phone number, some food, and some water. After Jesse finished packing her knapsack she started on her way to Indanappolis. On her way to Indianappolis she meets a few characters.
I don't know how to get past the camera or the guard. If I was in Jesse's place I would scream. Jesse is a very brave girl unlike me.
This is a very realistic story. I think this book will make people cry in the end.Action is the one of the main verbs in this book.Margaret describes how the way Jesse feels very well. Also Margaret describes the other characters and what they do well also.
On a scale from one to ten I would give this book a ten. I gave this book a ten because it was realistic. On a thumbs up or a thumbs down scale I would give it a thumbs up.
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Summary: A great book
Review: I found this book very enjoyable. It is the story of 13-year-old Jessie Keyser, a spunky, likeable young girl living in the 1840s. When an outbreak of diphtheria strikes her small village, infecting mostly children, Jessie is confronted with a mind-boggling fact: her village, immersed in the 1840s, is nothing more than a tourist attraction, and in the world outside it is the year 1996. However, something has gone wrong, for those who run the village of Clifton will not acknowledge the diphtheria outbreak and will not send medical help. Jessie must secretly escape from the village and get help not only for her infected friends, but her dangerously ill little sister as well. She soon finds herself in pants, in the city, and in serious trouble.
I found the idea of this book very interesting, and I think Margaret Haddix did an excellent job working with it. It's no Moby Dick, but it is well written and very appealing. I read the whole thing in one night, despite the fact that I well above the recommended reading level. I found the main character to be engaging and believable. What she does during the course of the story is what is what I wish I would do in the same situation, for she is heroic and amazingly gutsy, but without seeming like some unrealistic superwoman. She is just a normal, scared young girl who is just trying to do the best she can.
One of the best things about this book, in my opinion, was being able to see our incredible and sometimes frightening modern world through the eyes of someone from 1840. We rarely marvel at the miracle of electric lights or at being able to go fifty-five miles per hour in a car, but through Jessie's eyes we are able to realize just how much we take for granted and how lucky we really are. After all, fifty-five miles per hour is pretty dang amazing, but most people could really care less. I think it is important, with all our modern miracles, to take a step back every now and then to realize that they really are miracles. This book really helped me to do that.
This story shows not only what our society has gained, but it also shows what it has lost as well. During one part of the book, Jessie actually takes a tour of Clifton with a group of middle-school kids. Her village, where the children are respectful and the adults are capable and hard working, contrasts sharply with the apathetic, inattentive group of teenagers in her tour group, and the adults leading the group obviously wouldn't know how to shoe a horse or make cheese if their lives depended on it. What was interesting to me was the thought that our civilization to the point that we are no longer required to work so hard for day to day things, but at the same time, we are not as able to take care of ourselves in the same way those in the 1840s would have been. Also, in becoming more civilized, we seem to have become a great deal less civil. I realize that commentaries on society are hardly part of a normal book review, but then, I believe a good book should make you think after you are done reading it, and this book does that.
I think the greatest strength of this book is the fact that it was able to hold my interest and attention so well, even though it was not written for my age group. Yet it was evident to me while reading it that it would do just as good a job at holding the interest and attention of a ten or eleven year old. I would recommend this book freely to those my own age as well as to those who are younger than myself. This book is fun, exciting, and very interesting.
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Summary: Excellent book for young people!
Review: I and my daughter both enjoyed this book. It's hard to find good science fiction for teens - this is one of the best I've read. Thirteen year old Jessie lives in 1840 - she thinks. When diphtheria strikes her small village, her mom tells her the truth : it's really 1996 in the rest of the world, and their village is part of an experiment. Jessie must go for help, into the confusing and frightening modern world. This book is well written, with a fast paced story that should grab the readers attention quickly and hold it. The one criticism - where's the sequel??? I strongly recommend this book.
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Summary: My Favorite book
Review: The book is really interesting because it talks about the past where the main character is thought to believe that it's the 1800's and not 1996.It gets better as you go on because Diptheria spreads around the reservation where she lives killing friends.As you go, you learn new things that you hadn't known before.She goes through a lot of things in her journey because she's sent to look for a doctor to cure the people.At the end she saves all the people in the reservation.
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