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Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Running out of Time
(1995) Aladdin – Simon&Schuster, 1997
The Hunger Games
meets
“Little House on the Prairie”
The Giver
meets
“The Truman Show”
Yup, if I’d met Jessie Keyser in the pages of Running Out of Time when I was a kid, I’d have re-read it a dozen times.
And it’s a thriller, so that’s about all I can say because I don’t want to give any of the story away. |
Nope, it’s not the best-written novel ever — maybe she’s the Lois Duncan of her day — but it’s a great read. I just kept reading until it was done.
PS I chose this because it sounded creepy (perfect for October and RIP V!) …
and it was recommended in Shireen Dodson’s Books for Girls to Grow On, 
which hasn’t yet steered me wrong.
Have you read this author before? Do you think this was a good place to start?
Have you checked out Shireen Dodson’s list yet?
Thanks for saying so, Jenny. None of the others I picked up grabbed me either, but Jessie is terrific, it’s true!
I loved this book when I was a kid, but was unmoved by anything else the author had written. This one, though, amazing. The girl was very heroic in it!