Pros: Well written, interesting idea, good characters, good discussion points. Cons: It was short.
Running Out Of Time was the first Margaret Peterson Haddix novel I picked up. Actually I was supposed to be alphabetizing and shelving in Intermediate which at the time I considered a safe place to really get work done. I wasn’t interested in ...
Pros: Action based, teen thriller with a correlation to reality based TV Cons: May seem like a "girl" book, but is not.
In this time of reality TV, and the hype and promotion that seems to endlessly encompass our television screens, the story behind Running Out of Time seems all to real. Set in 1996, it is a fine example of a preplanned “reality” show,...
Pros: It's like foreign travel without having to learn a TOTALLY new language Cons: None
"If Ray Bradbury had written THE GIVER,the result might rival Haddix's first novel." Thus speaks Richard Peck, whose own novel THE LAST SAFE PLACE ON EARTH makes good mention of Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451. I like books that refer to other books in ways ...
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