Escape From Memory [Hardcover]

Margaret peterson Haddix (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• ISBN-10: 0439614430
• ISBN-13: 978-0439614436
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,091,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I grew up on a farm outside Washington Court House, Ohio. As a kid, I liked to read a lot, and was also involved in 4-H, various bands and choirs (I played flute and piano), church youth group, the school newspaper, and a quiz-bowl type team. I was pretty disastrous as an athlete, although I did run track one year in high school. After graduating from Miami University (of Ohio), I worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana; a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis; and a part-time community college instructor and freelance writer in Danville, Illinois, before my first book was published. I've moved around a lot as an adult, having also lived in Luxembourg (during a college semester abroad) and in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. Several years ago, I moved back to Ohio with my husband and kids; we now live in Columbus, Ohio. My husband trains investigative journalists, and my kids are in high school, so there's always a lot going on around our house.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You are what you remember, August 14, 2004

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Melanie A. Burton "Librarian and Raconteur" (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Escape from Memory (Golden Duck Awards. Eleanor Cameron Award for Middle Grades (Awards)) (Hardcover)

In the novel Escape from Memory, Margaret Peterson Haddix shows her ability yet again to come up with a plausible new world to show her readers.

Kira, the main character, gets more than she bargained for after being hypnotized by her friends at a sleepover. She begins to learn that her past may be a lot more interesting than she thought. Her mother refuses to tell Kira what her memory of being carried away from danger as a toddler might mean and so Kira and her friend Lynne then decide to find out why she was able to understand a language in her hypnosis that no one else can recognize and what else Kira's past might hold. Kira soon finds herself on a plane with a woman who claims to be her "Aunt Memory" from her homeland Crythe while Kira's mother is nowhere to be found.

Haddix has crafted wonderful novels and this is yet another that will appeal to a wide range of readers. This sci fi novel will appeal to sci fi fans as well as those readers who appreciate a well crafted realistic story since the backstory is well explained. I would recommend this to readers from eleven up to adult.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book!, February 16, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Escape from Memory (Golden Duck Awards. Eleanor Cameron Award for Middle Grades (Awards)) (Hardcover)

This book is extremely interesting and easy to get in to. I read it in two days in between school.

It starts out while hipmotized by her friends at a Friday night slumber party, fifteen year old Kira tells about secrets that she didn't know she knew. When she asks her Mom about them, she flips out and tells her never to be hipmotized again. Suddenly, Kira's mom takes an entire month off of her job as a librarian and dissappears. It is then that someone shows up at Kira's house and claims to be her 'Aunt Memory' and she comes from this town called Crythe, which is where she claims Kira was born. Aunt Memory tells Kira that her Mom has been kidnapped and taken to Crythe too and Kira has to go there to save her. Kira then goes through dangerous challenges trying to free herself, her mom, and her friend who slipped into her suitcase when she left while she wasn't looking. This story was so interesting. I love all books by Margaret Peterson Haddix and I would reccomend them to anyone.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book but not really geared to adults, April 29, 2005

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Michael A. Newman (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Escape from Memory (Golden Duck Awards. Eleanor Cameron Award for Middle Grades (Awards)) (Hardcover)

Having read Running Out of Time,Turnabout and all the Shadow children books, I was a little bit disappointed with this book. The others could be easily enjoyed by all where this book definately is for a fairly young audience.

It starts out quite intriguing where Kira, a teen is hypnotized by her friend and has wierd memories that seem like they are from another person. When she asks her mother about the memories, her mother appears very disturbed and doesn't give Kira a satifactory answer. Then Kira's mother mysteriously disappears.

From there on the book turns into a fairly juvenile tale along the lines of Agent Cody Banks with a secret town, government plotting and dopey criminals. As one who did enjoy Agent Cody Banks I liked the book but was disappointed with the style because I was expecting something a little more believable like Turnabout.