About this title: This YA thriller was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Clifton is an 1840 pioneer village. The village doctor used to have special pills that would cure any illness. But those pills are all gone now, and Clifton is suffering from a diptheria epidemic. Mrs. Keyser, the midwife, tells her daughter, 13-year-old Jessie, a shocking truth about Clifton, and sends her for help outside of the village, into a world full of amazing things and unknown dangers.
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780689812361ISBN:0689812361
Description: Poor. No Jacket. Previous Owenrs Name Inside Front Cover, Water Damage, Corners/Edges Worn, Tear On Spine, Spine Creased, Covers Creased, Text Appears Unmarked, Reading Copy ONLY. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780689812361ISBN:0689812361
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Wraps have light edgewear. Pages are clean, text has no markings. read more
"I was really impressed with Margaret Haddix's first novel. If I'd read this as an editor, I would have been really excited to sign on this author. It's an inventive story. Jessie is an ordinary girl living in a small town in the 1840s--she thinks--when the town's children are struck with diptheria. This is when Jessie's mother, who serves as the midwife, tells Jessie that it is really 1996 and there is medicine available to help the children, but Jessie must sneak out of the town, past guards and barbed wire fences, to get help.
One Amazon reviewer called this book "Little House on the Prairie" meets "The Truman Show." A good description. And as crazy as it may sound, Haddix makes it believable and fascinating."
"I am somewhat ashamed to say that this is the first Margaret Peterson Haddix book I've read. It was a fast moving, fast read. Now, I have actually seen The Village (and I think M. Night should probably be sending some of the $$$ he made off that movie Ms. Haddix's way), and so I saw the twist coming from page 1...but since the twist was revealed on page, oh, 20? or so, that didn't ruin the book. And it had entirely different characters and a different plot, filled with nefarious schemes and evil-doers, which I think makes it a lot easier for a younger audience to relate to than would be possible in M. Night's version. Also, shockingly, Ms. Haddix managed to do it without any annoying self-insertion cameos, so that was good.
Oh, anyway. I really enoyed this book and would happily suggest it to any younger person in search of a thriller/suspense novel."
"Running out of time is about a girl named Jessie, who lives in the 1840's- or so she thinks! She is a believable character going about daily prairie life in Clifton, Indiana. When a deadly incurable disease strikes upon the village her mother revels that it is actually 1996 and that they are living in a tourist village, Jessie must get medicine from the outside world. Jessie is shocked that tourists have been watching her every move on cameras placed around Clifton. She reliazes that everything is not as it seems and she has to hurry before the sickness spreads in Clifton. This book offers a funny and touching insight as to what it would be like to be thrown in a world you only thought was real in your dreams. Jessie navigates cars, surveillance, and busy cities, all of which are new to her and ultimately learns the truth."
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