Series
Running Out of Time
Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2 novels · 1995–2023
Margaret Peterson Haddix's Running Out of Time follows Jessie, who believes she lives in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana, in 1840 — until a diphtheria outbreak kills several children and her mother reveals the truth: it is actually 1996, and Clifton is a reconstructed historical tourist village cut off from the outside world. Sent by her mother on a desperate mission for real medicine, Jessie discovers a modern world stranger and more threatening than she imagined, with her own life on the line. Falling Out of Time continues her story.
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By decade
- 1990s1
- 2000s0
- 2010s0
- 2020s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
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- Running Out of Timedarkest · brightest · calmest · most intense