Escape+From+Memory(KA)

Review By: Kelly Anderson
 * //Escape From Memory//**, Margaret Peterson Haddix

Margaret Peterson Haddix's ESCAPE FROM MEMORY, is about a 15 year old girl named Kira, with bluish-black hair, who lived an ordinary life in Willistown, until one day her friends hypnotized her. She spoke of danger and escape, leaving her friends dumbfounded.The more Kira finds out, the more dangerous things get. Her mom was kidnapped when she came home, but in her drastic capture, her mom managed to write last words for her daughter. When Kira came home, she was afraid, and she was terrified when a mysterious woman appeared in her room claiming that she was her "aunt memory." Then Kira was taken to a medieval-like place called Crythe. She finds out that her actual mother was killed before she remembered and her known mom was her real aunt memory, and that her fake aunt memory was a criminal. Kira's best friend is a true friend, and tried her hardest to rescue Kira. Kira learns more about greed and selfishness, and most of all, love.

I recommend this book, because the chapters ended with suspenseful words. It kept me hooked until the last page, and then I wanted to read the sequel. They made the good guys easy to love, and the bad guys easy to hate. There was a lot of emotion and truth, and you can really connect with the situations. It made me think about what I would do in those situations. I read through this rather quickly, and so even though this book is guided towards 12 and above, I think that it would be better for 10 and below, but you never know, because I was reading volumes of __Harry Potter__ very quickly when I was 10, so I may just be a fast reader. ANYWAY, I think that Margaret did a fantastic job.

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