Once I started reading this book I could not put it down. " Escape from Memory", by Margaret Peterson Haddix, is about Kira. A girl who doesn't know much about her life before moving to Williston. A girl who had never given her past much thought. A girl who let herself be hypnotized. During a sleep over, Kira and her friends thought it would be fun to hypnotize someone, and Kira was the only one willing. After revealing secrets Kira never knew she had about fleeing a war torn coutry with a woman...

Good, good, good. Margaret Peterson Haddix it a really good author. It was very interesting and different. I loved it.At first what made me interested, was the mystery aspect. It starts right at the first words. The mystery of Kira's true past. Just that was interesting enough for me to want to read it. But then after the mystery is gone, the suspense kicks in. Guns and treats glore! That's what really got me. I just couldn't put it down! I was always wondering what was going to happen next; wer...

Kira is your average teenage girl, living in a small town with her somewhat distant mother. She has her friends, she attends her classes, she knows everyone and everyone knows her.At least, that's what she thinks.At a sleepover, her friends hypnotize her, asking her to tell them something they don't know. Kira recites her mother carrying her through the streets in a war-torn city, trying to keep her from crying. When Kira is snapped out of the trance, she doesn't remember any of it - but realize...

Fifteen-year-old Kira Landon allows a friend to hypnotize her during a sleepover. They get more than they expected when Kira remembers being carried through the streets of a strange city at twilight as guns sound in the distance.This memory - if that is what it was - triggers questions for Kira that she never thought of before. Why is the only relative she has ever known her mother? Did she at one time speak another language? Was she kidnapped or saved from a war-torn country? Her mother refuses...

Urgh. What happened with this book? Margaret Peterson Haddix was one of my favorite authors as a tween, second only to JK Rowling. Normally, her books are really good. I picked up this book out of curiosity, flipped to a random page, and found that this book had a connection to Chernobyl. That got me really excited, because the thought of this being connected to Chernobyl and written by one of my favorite authors was a sure win. This book, however, was just... First off, I never got into it. The...

Margaret Peterson Haddix is an author that I see many of my students reading. I had never read any of her many books, so I was happy when our 6th grade book club voted to read Escape from Memory. Well, my experience with this book was not good. Haddix did an excellent job grabbing me in the first few chapters; however, it was all downhill from there. I found the heroine Kira less than heroic and much of the storyline unbelievable. Science fiction is not one of my favorite genres and this book ha...

I really enjoyed the few twists this book managed to sneak in. I also really enjoyed it because it made me feel young again, it was exactly the kind of adventure I used to dream about having, (until the end when it got scary. I was never that brave) and it had a best friend that was exactly the kind of friend I always dreamed would accompany me on wild adventures. As a mature adult (am I?) I am glad I never had these kinds of adventures (obviously) but they are exciting to read.This one also had...

I read this over the summer for a school project and it was so good and intense and really interesting. When I finished it I was sad it was over :( The beginning is a little slow, but once you get to reading it, it captures your interest. :) Love it!

This book was just o.k. for me. While normally I enjoy reading M.P. Haddix, this one was choppy, overly rushed, and lacked character development. Felt more like a first attempt at writing from an inexperience budding author.

Very interesting book, as are all of the Margaret Haddix books that I've read. Fast-paced and keeps you on your toes.

I just finished this at home it is not as good as I sugspected but it is full of suspence! One of my friends read this and recomended it TRY IT!

Never ending and suspenseful!

It has an interesting premise, but I found myself a little bored at times. Definitely not her best work, but I'm glad I read it. It puts things in perspective, whether building and storing memories is more important than living. Like all things, I think there is a balance. This book does have a thread of mystery running through it that kept me guessing until the end.

Secrets. This is what Kira’s friends discover when they hypnotize her for fun at a sleepover. They were just playing around, and they didn’t know that the secrets they would discover would be so dark and mysterious. Kira, during her hypnotization, speaks of escaping from a war, clinging to her mom. But once Kira wakes up and is told the secrets she spoke about, Kira is confused. She doesn’t remember that event from her childhood at all.Then, one day, her mother disappears. Kira gets a little wor...

The book I read is a fiction book by Margaret Peterson Haddix. The theme of this book is people can be fake. In the beginning of the story, it starts out with Kira being at a party with her friends and they try to hypnotize her and it works, she talks about how her and her mom ran from somewhere, and she talks in a different language and all of her friends are confused. It then continues and Kira comes home from her friends house and she sees her Aunt, who goes by the name of Memory and she tel...

Margaret Peterson Haddix is an amazing author, and, having read her other books, I was actually kind of disappointed by this read. It was a very good book, but didn't keep me "wanting more," like her books usually do. I think I would've enjoyed this book more if I hadn't known that it was by her.The book was very suspenseful, but it was hard to understand the plot sometimes. It is definitely not a fast read, even though it is a pretty short book. You have to pay attention to everything that is r...

At first, I couldn't get into this book. I thought I would just put this book down and stop reading it but I decided to keep going. I'm glad I did, because this book just kept getting better as it went along. I thought Kira's mom was a little bit weird, being so detached from her daughter and all. But later in the story I realized why, and it made a lot more sense. Reading this story further made it make more sense, because the whole storyline eventually gets put into place and makes it easier t...

This was my third Haddix book. I had enjoyed the tenth 39 Clues book, so I figured this one would be good as well. I was wrong. For me, the character is the biggest part of the story. I mean, Alice in Wonderland doesn't have too much of a plot, but we love it anyway because of Alice and Carroll's other characters. I did not, however, love this story's characters. All of them seemed to be kind of flat and cliche. I couldn't stand how unrelatable and predictable the characters were. I was already

In this book Escape from memory, it was so unpredictable. I think this book was great because I enjoyed it, but- I wanted to hear more like an second book because it kind of left me hanging a little. Kira was a great character, but she was kind of to gullible which means she believes almost every single thing. That kind of relates to the characteristics that I have kind of..But the thing that was so crazy was that her "mother" may not be her actually mother and that her "mother" may be her aunt

This book...was not what I was expecting. It was certainly interesting, and certain aspects of it reminded me of a character from the Ilyon Chronicles. Another noteworthy thing: I finally got my library card! Yay! I had to wait a while, but the wait is finally over, and I can start getting new books again.Writing: 5/5It was well-done. It immersed you into the head of the main character and portrayed her and her thoughts well. Descriptions weren't lacking, and the grammar and spelling was good as...