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Summary: Run and Buy this Book
Review: Thirteen-year-old Jessie thinks that she lives in the year 1840. All her life she has lived without electricity or any other modern items. But, when children begin dying of diphtheria, her mother reveals the truth-it is 1996.Not knowing what even a lightbulb or a car is, Jessie must sneak out of their colony to the modern world and start a press conference. Once you begin this book, you can't put it down and it has a great plot. I recommend it for children anywhere from the grades 5-7.
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Summary: Great book for 6th and 7th graders
Review: I liked Running Out of Time because I liked the characters. The main character, Jessie, is like a real life person because she does not have a fairy tail way of getting out of danger. She had to get out of a house soon. Jessie climbed out the second story window because the door leading out of the room was locked. Jessie hangs out the window, then puts her feet on the first floor window. She is half way when she slips and falls. Jessie falls into a bush. She is out of the house. Running Out of Time has a twist at the end. Running Out of Time is about a girl named Jessie. She lives in Clifton, Indiana in the 1840's or so she's told. However, the adults in Clifton know the secret. Diphtheria breaks out and Jessie has to escape into the real world before time runs out. Jessie finds herself in more danger than she could imagine. There is someone, who wants to kill her. What is Clifton's secret? Will Jessie save Clifton? Find out by reading, Running Out of Time. I would recommend Running Out of Time to anyone who likes fiction and mystery. I would recommend it to anyone in sixth through seventh grade. Running Out of Time also has adventure. It is a fun book and it keeps you on the edge of your seat. There is something new happening all the time.
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Summary: 1840-1996 in 5 Minutes
Review: Running Out of Time by: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Only you can save us now... Jessie Keyser lives in the "authentic historical preserve" of Clifton Village. That means that she thinks it is still 1840. Part of the promise to the citizens of Clifton is that they will get modern health care, food during famine, and that every child will get to know the truth by the time they are 12. Jessie is 13 and she still doesn't know the truth but all that is about to change.
When a diphtheria epidemic spreads over Clifton, Jessie must get help from the outside world. She must deal with the unknown and escape the unimaginable. This is a story of adventure, conflicts, and resolutions. A tale of cliff hanging chapters.
I would recommend this book to grades 5-7. A younger child may not understand some of the complicated details. I enjoyed this book for the most part, but I found some of the plot hard to follow and some details a little bit unrealistic. It wasn't great literature, but it sure held your attention. If you like books packed with action, and not much depth this is good for you.
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Summary: Traveling Through Time
Review: Running Out of Time is about a girl who's sent out of her village to find a cure for the kids. Once out of her village it's like a whole new world. She has to figure out how to work these devices that she had never seen before. There's barely any time left.
This is a really good book because it's suspensful and sad. You never want to put it down. The book made me so sad at times I found tears in my eyes. But all together this is a great book!!
I recommend this book for people ages 8-44. Any gender I think will like this book.
You will especially like it if you love adventures and mysteries. Read it, you' ll love it.
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Summary: time travel
Review: Running out of Time is a fast pace book about a girl living in the 19th century, at least that's what she thinks, but when the town of Clifton gets sick she is forced to go to the real world to get medicine for the childen Clifton, but on her way she meets weird people and learns weird things. The good guys are the bad guys, the safe place is dangerous and the good things are bad. The book is a mix of mystery, adventure and drama. It is scary because of all the new things in Jessie's life. It's mysterious because everybody is not who they are. It is a good book, because the author lets you figure some of the story yourself.
I would recommend this book to mystery lovers between 9-12 years old, also people who also like to be at a cliff hanger
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Summary: Running Out of Book Reviews
Review: Running Out of Time is an exciting book about an 1840s girl named Jessie who lives in Clifton, a small, quiet village. But when diphtheria threatens the town's children, and Jessie's own sister, Jessie must learn the horrible truth about Clifton Village, and leave the town to find a modern cure. If Jessie doesn't find a cure, the children will die. Jessie must suffer many hardships such as money, electricity, cars, and many more objects of the future. But as she learns more and more about 1996, the children are getting sicker. And every minute she spends, the children are running out of time.
I think that Running Out of Time is an excellent book. I loved the way the story was written and formed. The book has a great plot. I loved how Jessie got to learn a whole different century. If I was Jessie, I would be really freaked out all the time. But she kept cool, and just slowly figured out how the future worked. I also think the book had very good vocabulary. I learned words I would have never learned otherwsise. Actually, you don't even realize that you are learning new words every time you open the book! Books like Running Out of Time just pull you in, and you get so obsorbed that you don't realize you are learning something new on every page!
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Summary: Diphtheria Dilemma
Review: Running Out of Time, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, is an exciting book about a girl named Jessie Keyser. She lives in a historical preserve called Clifton Village, which is in 1840, but in the real world, it's 1996. A disease breaks out in the village so Jessie has to try to save the children of Clifton.
This story is so interesting and exciting that you can't put it down. Each chapter ends in a cliffhanger. It is a good book for mystery lovers and people that like adventurous stories and exciting stories.
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Summary: Running Out of Plot
Review: Your family and friends' life is in your hands. That's what the situation is for Jessie Keyser, a 13 year old living in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. The year is 1840, and the children of Clifton are dying of diphtheria. Jessie's mother sends her on a dangerous quest for help. But once she goes beyond Clifton, the world is scarier, stranger, and more terrifying than she could have imagined. And soon, she finds her own life in question. Can she save Clifton before everybody runs out of time? There's nothing very good I can say about this book. Too many unessecary details and not enough storyline make this book a doughy, dry 184-page phonebook. I found Running Out of Time to be highly unrealistic. This is not a novel for children, moms and dads. If you are loooking for deranged, half-fantasy bordering on reality,or you are rounding up the worst books of the twentieth century, Running Out of Time is certainly for you. You don't want to read this one unless you are really tolerant of bad fiction. Personally, I would rather eat raw fish heads than read this again
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Summary: Running Good Read
Review: Running Out of Time
by Margaret Haddix.
What if you had the lives of all the children in your town in your hands? Well if anyone knows how it feels, it is Jesse . She is a 13 year old girl who lives in Clifton Village in what she thinks is 1840. She is very happy with her life, until a deadly disease comes through her town. Her mother sends her on a dangerous mission to get help for the children of Clifton. She escapes but the second she does her life changes forever. I really loved this book. It is exciting and scary at the same time. It was an amazing read. I would recommend it to kids from ages from 9-15. People who like adventures and scary books will love this.
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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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