Running Out Of Time (Running Series Book 2)

And, like all childhood heroes should do, she saves the day. Recommended for fifth graders on up. Dec 09, Candace Robinson added it. And I swear this is where the idea for The Village came from! I loved that movie too! Mar 15, Emma Louise rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is probably one of my favourite books ever. I love the innovative idea behind it, the pace which is FAST , and the drama. Basically, it's the story of a girl who lives in a village in the s. Only it's not really the s. It's a kind of living museum and none of the children know that. Except something's gone wrong and they're all trapped.

Jesse escapes and on her own and has to move through this strange modern world to find help for her village. The only thing I can think of to complai This is probably one of my favourite books ever. The only thing I can think of to complain about is that it's sorted as a "science fiction- dystopia". For those who don't know, dystopia means a society that looks utopian, or perfect, but isn't. Famous examples are by George Orwell or the Hunger Games series. Guys, Jesse is running about in our own society, which the author is absolutely not going out of her way to criticise.

Eventually, only a few people are responsible for the tragedies in Clifton, Indiana. I think one thing that I like about it as a teenager is that it's NOT a dystopian book but still manages to create that high-tension atmosphere. It also has elements of historical fiction, which is my favourite genre, adventure, and mystery. I like that the book is short. The author keeps the pace very brisk but there's still time to develop Jesse and really have her observe our world. It's easy to read being in the category but it's still very enjoyable for adults and teenagers. I read a lot of books when I was a kid.

This is one of the ones that I keep going back to again and again. Aug 06, booklady rated it it was amazing Shelves: Riveting story about a world within a world. My in-laws live near Conner Prairie, Indiana which is an outdoor living history museum; we had just returned from visiting there when we read this book. The frontier village of Clifton, Indiana which Haddix describes seems much like the tourist attraction, Conner Prairie, a mid-American country town frozen in But what if there were real people in the living history museum?

Wouldn't that make it much more interesting? And what if those people did Riveting story about a world within a world. And what if those people didn't know they were being used? And not just as live models for the museum How can such a sinister-sounding story be so good? The secret about the town's true identity and purpose is revealed to one of the youngsters when a diphtheria epidemic threatens to wipe out the town's residents who are still coping with 19th century medical care.

Haddix uses the unconventional features of her story's environment, time and circumstances to raise important questions about life, health care, death and who has the right to make critical decisions. Not for very young children due to mature theme. My friend is a, well, a kind of guru of the young adult sci-fi genre. She has excellent taste in books. When I saw her review of this one, I knew I had to read it.

If you've seen "The Village" you know what this story is about. Except that this book was published in and "The Village" was released in Basically the same plot. The book takes place in a village where all the children think it's or so. They have no memories of what is beyond their village of Clifton. Then the children My friend is a, well, a kind of guru of the young adult sci-fi genre. Then the children start getting sick. Our protagonist is a very brave year-old who will do anything to prove her bravery to the other kids in Clifton.

So when her mother figures out that the children in town have diphtheria she has to send Jessie out to get help. But first she has to tell Jessie that Clifton is a tourist attraction and that the real year is Stop me when this starts to sound familiar. While Running out of Time does not have the man-made monster that "The Village" had to keep the people within the town's borders, it does has it's own share of human monsters.

The owner of Clifton is a rich old guy who hired people to live like it was authentically the s. Raise their children, work, live and play like it was the s. It would be the most authentic flashback to history for tourist possible. Cameras are hidden in trees and children are punished if they find them and try to examine them.

There is a large rock that we later find out is the entrance to the "offices" of the Clifton Village incorporated. It's the way that Jessie gets to escape to find help. The story is pretty good. When I lived in Virginia, my parents took me to Williamsburg, Jamestown, and every other historical site they could find in VA.

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I loved being there and seeing everybody in their old fashioned garb. As an adult I liked the book. Haddix does a good job of understanding the voice of the children, who are the prominent people in the book. I think that's what distinguishes a good young adult author from a bad one: And Haddix did a good job. Now let's get back to M. Night Shyamalan and the possibility that he just might have plagiarized his movie "The Village" from this book. Night is one of my favorite directors and writers I know his movies all follow the same pattern, I don't mind, he reminds me of a couple of pals from college who were trying really hard to start an improv group, however, I digress , I wanted to make sure that his movie wasn't linked to Running Out of Time.

Shame on me for doing some digging. The plot of Shyamalan's movie had several similarities to the book. They both involve an s village which is actually a park in the present day, have young heroines on a search for medical supplies, and both have adult leaders bent on keeping the children in their village from discovering the truth. M Night Shyamalan, the writer-director of The Sixth Sense, is facing possible legal action for his latest hit, The Village, from publishers of a children's book.

Reports say the story of the Village, and its surprise ending, are similar to Margaret Peterson Haddix's first book, Running Out of Time, which was published in It sold more than half a million copies. Haddix told Reuters that fans and journalists had emailed and called her to ask if she'd sold the book to Shyamalan. She said she had never spoken to him, or to Disney. According to the info on M. Night's wiki page which we all know is truth!

Sadly this isn't the first time he's been threatened with plagarism: In recent years, Shyamalan has been accused of plagiarism. Robert McIlhinney, a Pennsylvania screenwriter, sued Shyamalan over the similarity of Signs to his unpublished script Lord of the Barrens: I really hate to think that M. Night stole the idea from the book. This is one of my favorite movies of his. I thought the movie was so genius. Jeez, that would be better than having your fans and critics think you were a story thief! View all 5 comments. She wanted to watch Pa and Mr.

Smyth and the Ruddles and all the other adults in Clifton and see what they were hiding. But in this instance, there are just too many examples to ignore. Why do I say this? I enter into evidence these examples. Running Out of Time A girl and her family live in a small, isolated village in the s. The girl has several siblings. The Village A woman and her family live in a small, isolated village in the s.

The woman has several siblings. What more might she see? How could Ma and Pa have left such an amazing world? Does that not sound familiar to you? On the whole, though, the book was OK. The explanation of why she was the one chosen to get help was flimsy at best, laughable at worst. I also thought that she was too lucky in getting out of situations aka not enough close calls for me to ever believe that she was in any real danger. However, I did find that her actions and reactions to being in the outside world were believable.

The explanation of why the village was founded and set up was a little bit odd as well. It made sense in a certain way, but the way the author tried to explain and justify it made it seem like a bumbling mess. Oct 15, Colleen rated it really liked it Shelves: This book, for about year old girls, reads like a rebuttal to the pioneer-girl fantasies those same girls likely had a few years earlier if they read The Little House Collection or played Oregon Trail -- at any rate, those fantasies stand a chance of giving the young reader a better chance of understanding this surprisingly sophisticated and action-packed novel.

The driving motivation behind the book's set-up is the lure of old-timey charm on tourists, which has been perverted in a twist b This book, for about year old girls, reads like a rebuttal to the pioneer-girl fantasies those same girls likely had a few years earlier if they read The Little House Collection or played Oregon Trail -- at any rate, those fantasies stand a chance of giving the young reader a better chance of understanding this surprisingly sophisticated and action-packed novel.

The driving motivation behind the book's set-up is the lure of old-timey charm on tourists, which has been perverted in a twist by an evil corporation as I recall, one of my first introductions to that breed in literature though Alex Mack, on Nick, had already introduced it in television. If I had visited Colonial Williamsburg as a kid after reading this, I probably would have been terrified. As it was, I only wished I could believe that, thrown into the same situation, I would be as awesome as Jessie. View all 4 comments. Sep 29, Jason McIntire rated it liked it.

I've heard it said that you should avoid cultural references as a writer because they make your work seem dated. That's true of "Running out of Time," but also pretty much unavoidable: The point of the book is throwing a character from the 's into modern time, and the time described - in terms of fashion, entertainment, and technology - is very much , and will never seem present-day again.

This gives the story a "modern vintage" feel that readers may or may not appreciate. I picked up thi I've heard it said that you should avoid cultural references as a writer because they make your work seem dated. I picked up this book because it was free or nearly free at a bag sale, and I was thinking about giving it to a tween girl. It's a bit young for my taste - and a bit unrealistic and contrived - but I found it fairly entertaining nonetheless.

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Tweens and teens will likely enjoy it more. This book is a very quick read, as it is intended for a fairly young audience. With its simple characters and plot, it is not exactly captivating, but I did enjoy the protagonist's commentary on the elements of our time period, which were completely foreign to her. I also like the dual meaning of the title.

Many of my students enjoy Haddix's books, and this is one that I will recommend to them. Nov 17, Mikey rated it really liked it. To begin, the plot and turn of events easily caught me by surprise. For example, the book started out with a fairly normal family who obviously lived in the past. In fact, it later states that the year was currently I actually read the back of the book before I started reading so I knew it was going to be something about a diphtheria epidemic.

Before reading, I fully intended this book to be a novel set in the s. However, when the epidemic is actually discovered, the main character, Jessie Keyser, has a meeting with her mom who is a local doctor. Her mom quietly spoke to her and, out of the blue, mentions that the year is actually When I read this line in the book, I was honestly caught off guard.

Like a natural human, I began formulating a plot according to this one line. I am not exaggerating by saying that this was probably the largest turn of events in any book I have ever read. I started to get very interested in how the story would pan out. This was one of the many turn of events in the book, but it was definitely the largest.

The other thing that made this book interesting was the highly developed characters, mainly Jessie. The start of the book is really an explanation of the daily life of people in the s.

To start off the day, Jessie would do her chores, which seemed to be rotated between all of the children. Then she went to school where her teacher, Mr. When Jessie got home, they would eat a family dinner and she would help her mom find herbs to heal local sick people. This interested me because I was constantly wondering what I would do if I were in her situation. Overall, this well-developed personality change made the book that much more interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a quick read and would like to read something totally different.

The interesting plot and well-developed characters really do propel this book to be one of the most unique books I have read. Mar 03, Kristine Hansen rated it liked it. I liked the premise of this book more than I did the execution. The set up was great, and I felt like I understood the world very well.

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But the book seemed to fall apart a bit at the end, where things got rushed. I wanted to see a bit more deeper characterization overall. I think that for what it is, it's a solid and enjoyable read though, and would recommend it if you're looking for light entertainment. Jul 17, C. Cook rated it really liked it Shelves: This book was really interesting! The idea of a colony of people who thought for the most part that they lived in the s was really cool, and Jessie's experiences after escaping were really neat.

Everything worked out differently than I thought it might, and there was some untapped potential in the story, but it was a really enjoyable read! The only part I didn't like was Pa's trouble adjusting and psychological problems. But otherwise, a great book!

Aug 16, Eleni rated it it was amazing. I like this book because its about a girl who is in New York and she was exploring the city and one day she gets lost and her mom calls her to come home and she gets lost in the city and she has a minimum time to get home so she starts her time and by the time she gets to were she wants to go shes running out of time this is why i like this book.

Mar 27, Mariah rated it really liked it Shelves: I remember the first time I read this, I was thirteen and read this book in one day sitting in a hammock during summer.

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I loved the characters and all the plot twists. This was my first fearful social utopia book and it sparked my interest that I still have today. Jessie's mother is the town's midwife and she is tasked with taking care of the sick children in the village. In many families, the men are in charge, but in Jessie's family, 'Ma pretended to be obedient, but she was really in charge. The adults in the town all know the truth of the town. To explain mysteries and to keep the children in line, they emphasize religion and warn the kids that God sees all they do.

In reality, they use the fear of God to control the children, knowing that they are watched by those who created the town. Ma breaks down after telling Jessie the truth. Jessie tries to comfort her mother by reminding her that God was always watching. Ma laughs and admits that even those warnings were deliberate. Jessie's father, Pa, is very different from her mother. Pa is like a big kid, playing and goofing around with Jessie and her siblings, while Ma takes care of everything else. Pa doesn't like change very much, either. The family has lived in the same log cabin where Jessie was born and although they had 6 children, Pa didn't want to move into a bigger house.

Pa claimed that it was too expensive to get a new house, Jessie's sister thought, ''Pa liked the log cabin too much to build a new house. When Clifton closes down, Pa has trouble transitioning to the modern world, at first rejecting the staples of contemporary life. It's clear that Pa enjoyed his life in and doesn't do well with the changes. In the modern world, Jessie makes her way to a phone at a fast food restaurant and calls Mr. At first, Jessie is relieved to find the man that Ma believes will save the sick children.

He picks her up and takes her to his house. Neely is not the savior for whom Jessie had hoped. His real name is Frank Lyle and the Mr. Neely that Ma knew is actually dead. Frank drugs Jessie and, as she is drifting off to sleep at his house, she overhears him talking on the phone: When Jessie wakes up, she escapes through a window in Frank's house and goes to tell everyone what she has discovered. Jessie is the hero, trying to save her town from diphtheria , Ma is the one who reveals a shocking secret to her, and Mr.

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