Running Out of Time

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B002VK7C8A
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Nice and complex conspiracy theory.

Thirteen-year-old Jessie lives in a frontier town named Clifton, Indiana, in the year 1840. It is a nice, comfortable town. Her father is a blacksmith, which is indispensable, and her mother looked after sick people at night when the local Doc was asleep. One day, her mother discovered that the town was plagued with diphtheria. People were going to die without proper medicine. So, due to circumstances, Jessie was sent out of town to bring back help. This trip could prove deadly for Jessie as she is about to find her world turned upside-down, and we are also in for a shock as we discover a cabal behind a deadly plot. They say that the people who write best are those who write about what they know, and Margaret Peterson Haddix knew of a tourist place like where our story starts. Yet the strength in Haddix's story is not as much the intriguing plot as it is her description of people and things. She makes you wonder what you should do. I knew or thought I knew the story before reading the book, as I saw the movie "The Village" (2004). However, the movie was readjusted to match M. Night Shyamalan's standard formula, including the standard ending twist. The book was more complex and did not need a last-minute twist.