Praise for Running Out of Night

Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House

by Sharon Lovejoy

2015-2016 Dorothy Canfield Fisher (DCF) Children’s Book Award Master List Selection

2015-2016 Great Stone Face Book Award Nominee,

sponsored by Children’s Librarians of New Hampshire

2014 Best Chapter Books Pick, International Reading Association

A Children’s Book Council Notable Social Studies Trade Book of the Year

A Children's Book Review Seven Middle Grade Books

for African American History Month Pick

Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Nominee for 2016-2017

Grades 3-5 Reading List for New Mexico’s Land of Enchantment Book Award

2016-2017 Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee

     •     “Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association

     •     “Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.” –Kirkus Review

     •     “A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.” –Publisher’s Weekly

     •     “An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor.” –Booklist

     •     “(Running out of Night) ...is a story that respects this pivotal era of American history, a story that reveals the pain, the courage, and the hope that eventually changed the world.”–Middle Shelf : Cool Reads for Kids magazine

     •     “Rarely do page-turners written for middle-school kids also ignite excitement in adults. (A notable exception is the series of Harry Potter books.) Fewer still explore the secret sorrows of children's lives in the mid-1800s, whether enslaved or free. Running Out of Night, a debut novel from Californian Sharon Lovejoy, a veteran author-illustrator known nationally for her prizewinning nonfiction books on gardening and nature, gives you both.”–OpEd News

     •     "A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.”–Library Voice

     •     “This book would be a great addition to a classroom library, especially considering its emphases on timeless and critical topics like discrimination and prejudice.” –examiner.com, National Book Examiner

     •     “Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s.” – Wandering Librarian

     •     “The rural, mid-19th-century dialect, coupled with the author's interest in ethnobotany, roots the story deeply in the houses, forests, gardens, and even streambeds of antebellum Virginia.” –School Library Journal

Title: Running Out Of Night Publisher: Delacorte Press/ Penguin-Random House Pages: 304
ISBN: (Hardcover): 978-0-385-74409-6, (Library Ed): 978-0-375-99147-9, (e-book): 978-0-385-37846-8

Paperback release date: March 8, 2016.