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Summary: Could this really happen?
Review: Jessie believes she is being raised in the 1840s, but the year is actually 1996. You see, Jessie lives in a tourist site made to look like a real village of 150 years ago. Her classmates have begun dropping out of her small, one-room classroom, and the medicines they are given don't seem to work. Jessie's mother finally tells her the truth about their community, and it's up to Jessie to escape from Clifton and seek help from the "real world." Although the plot is quite serious and suspenseful, I had to laugh at the scene where Jessie sees cars for the first time and thinks they move by witchcraft. My favorite part of this well written story is when she calls a press conference and reveals the "shocking secret" of Clifton. I haven't read many books with female protagonists, so it was neat to see a young girl making things happen - it's usually a boy.Now imagine this: We're moving along, thinking it's the year 2000 when a terrible disease spreads through our city. Eventually we learn that the year is really 2150 and people have been paying money to watch our EVERY move since we were born. Get the idea? Read this book!
-- JFS
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Summary: A GREAT BOOK!
Review: I just barley read this book in my Reading class. I really enjoyed it. It was very suspensful and you were ALWAYS on the edge of your seat. It was about a bunch of families linving in an inclosed area where they thought it was 1840 although in reality it was really 1996! Soon kids in this town came down with diptheria and the 'people' that ran this town didn't want to give them a cure for it wasn't 'athentic.' You should really read this book!
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Summary: All pages are full of excitement!
Review: I totally love this book! I love how the author explains so good of how Jesse's feeling when she's out in 1996. The end was pretty supprising. I totally reccomend this book, why?, here are the reasons:
1.) There is never a page that is boring.
2.) In the 2nd chapter, the whole adventure starts, not wasting the reader's time.
3.) She is a 13 year old girl! That is so cool! 13 years old would have to be the best age for the girl to be.
4.) Good ending
5.)THE BOOK IS JUST TOTALLY AWESOME!
GET IT NOW~~I REALLY RECCOMEND IT!
- JACLYN (ROSWELL1988)
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Summary: Is Running Out of Time Wasting Time?
Review: The Book Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix was a very enjoyable book. Jessie's story is very similar to "The Truman Show" because they are both watched over, except they don't know it. Jessie is "living" in the 1800's except she is really living during 1996. Some of Jessie's friends are starting to die and she has to go beyond her city to reality. It was a very interesting transition. It was a very interesting book because of the way Margaret Haddix writes it. She thought very different. Not too many books are like the one that she wrote. I think that she is an amazing author because the people in the book are living in an imaginary world. Although they are living in the past, the children in the town don't know it. They do think that it is the 1800's. They always wondered why they couldn't go beyond some places. They never knew why they couldn't climb trees. They were "locked away" in a world that wasn't reality. They were living in a world where they had not too much technology. I recommend this book to all people who love to read historical fiction because it talks about the way people lived in the 1800's. I would also recommend this book to children who are in elementary school or the beginning of middle school.
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Summary: Running Out of Time
Review: I give Running Out of Time four stars. I thought this book was very interesting, I couldn't put it down. I'm not the kind of person who likes to read. I think that I liked this book because it was about a girl my age. I also liked the book because the setting was in Indiana, where I live. The story talked about certain places in Martinsville and Indianapolis that I have been to. My favorite part in the story was when Jessie was trying to get out of Clifton and she almost got caught by the guards. Jessie had been living in what she thought was the 1800's, so when she came out of Clifton she had no clue what a telephone,elevator, or tv was. I loved this book and I would definatly recommend this book to any girls my age.
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Summary: Running Out of Time
Review: I gave the book Running Out of Time five stars because it was an exciting book that had loads of adventure. The main character, Jessie, was a curious fourth grader who was let in on a secret of the town, it was fake. The adventure started when Jessie was called upon to save her town, Clifton. She had to find her way to Indianapolis to get medicine and proper care for her sick friends in Clifton. She had to look inside herself to find the courage to continue. The author, Margaret Haddix, had an interesting way of teaching the past. She made up a town for the 1800's, but it was really 1996. She incorporated fact and fiction to add life to the character. For one, Jessie's father and mother were characterized as good parents who wanted to live in a small town. Obviously, they had no idea that Clifton was going to go bad, but in the book, it made them sound oblivious. She made the teacher a fun, loving guy, when really back then, they were strict. In my opinion, the book was exciting, adventurous, and educational. I would recommend it to people wbo like books; any age would like this book.
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Summary: Interesting, though for kids.
Review: When I was in 7th grade,I read this and thought it was pretty cool. Then I read it again, with, though I still enjoyed it, not quite the same expression. It's a cute story with some excellent ideas not too unlike "The Truman Show" and "The Matrix." Jessie lives in a 19th century town. When the local children start dying off, she is exposed to a big conspiricy. It's exciting and fast-paced, but I don't think anyone above a jr. high level would be as enthralled with it as a 7th grader would. Thus, I recommend it to late elementary-jr high ages.
