21 Best middle grade books like Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2) by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Cover of Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2) by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Return to the world of the bestselling Running Out of Time with this middle grade thriller from Mar…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2) by Margaret Peterson Haddix , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Slugfest by Gordon Korman

1. Slugfest

By: Gordon Korman

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School. So good, in fact, that's he's already been pla… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Slugfest book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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2. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Stead's The Lost Library book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

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3. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Ferris book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas  Day

4. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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5. Timid

By: Jonathan Todd

3.57

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

A semiautobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about frenemies, fitting in, and finding your voi… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Todd's Timid book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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6. Good Different

By: Meg Eden Kuyatt

4.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more

Similar categories in Meg Eden Kuyatt's Good Different book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Fight for words, even if it's hard."

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the ­«wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

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7. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

By: Pedro Martín

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and t… read more

Similar categories in Pedro Martín's Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
"It was like the driveway at Disneyland but with way more automatic weapons."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

"I like to say that my stories are 100% true 90% of the time. My memory and my heart like to play tricks on each other. The results are what makes my stories."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

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8. The First State of Being

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed fo… read more

Similar categories in Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • childrens
  • time travel
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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9. The Mystery of Locked Rooms

By: Lindsay Currie

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Crack the codes. Find the treasure. Escape the house. From the acclaimed author of Scritch Scratch … read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's The Mystery of Locked Rooms book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
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10. Tree. Table. Book.

By: Lois Lowry

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lowry's Tree. Table. Book. book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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11. Dust

By: Dusti Bowling

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A girl who struggles to breathe befriends a boy who seems shrouded in dust. After Avalyn nearly die… read more

Similar categories in Dusti Bowling's Dust book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

12. The Night War

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The Night War book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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13. Mixed Up

By: Gordon Korman

3.95

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Restart , the story of two boys who are losing their memories... to each other. … read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Mixed Up book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction
Cover of Barely Floating by Lilliam Rivera

14. Barely Floating

By: Lilliam Rivera

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling story full of heart about how one twelve-year-old channels her rage into synchronized sw… read more

Similar categories in Lilliam Rivera's Barely Floating book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2) by Margaret Peterson Haddix

15. Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Return to the world of the bestselling Running Out of Time with this middle grade thriller from Mar… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2) book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • childrens
  • time travel
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • science fiction
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16. The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn

By: Sally J. Pla

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Neurodivergent Maudie is ready to spend an amazing summer with her dad, but will she find the coura… read more

Similar categories in Sally J. Pla's The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of Rewind by Lisa Graff

17. Rewind

By: Lisa Graff

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Back to the Future meets When You Reach Me in this powerful novel by National Book Award nominee Li… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Graff's Rewind book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • science fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • time travel
"I don't think you can ever really know if what you're doing is the right thing or not. I mean, that's true for everyone…so what you gotta do now is ask yourself if you're more afraid of doing somethi…"

-Lisa Graff, Rewind

"Even if you weren't a time traveler, anything you did in life was going to lead to some kind of change. And really, there was no way for you to know what that change would be before it happened. You …"

-Lisa Graff, Rewind

Cover of Project F by Jeanne DuPrau

18. Project F

By: Jeanne DuPrau

2.92

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The City of Ember comes a post-apocalyptic story set hundreds of yea… read more

Similar categories in Jeanne DuPrau's Project F book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle by Taryn Souders

19. The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle

By: Taryn Souders

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Grady and his dad learn that the town oddball, Eudora "Kooky" Klinch left something for them i… read more

Similar categories in Taryn Souders's The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
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20. Half Moon Summer

By: Elaine Vickers

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two seventh graders discover it takes more than grit and a good pair of shoes to run 13.1 miles. Yo… read more

Similar categories in Elaine Vickers's Half Moon Summer book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Wrong Way Home by Kate  O'Shaughnessy

21. The Wrong Way Home

By: Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Library Binding

Twelve-year-old Fern believes she's living a noble life--but what if everything she's been told is … read more

Similar categories in Kate O'Shaughnessy's The Wrong Way Home book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

19 Best fiction books like Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2) by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Transform Your Habits

Slugfest

Gordon Korman

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Library

Rebecca Stead

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Timid

Jonathan Todd

3.57

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15 best-selling childrens books like Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín

Transform Your Habits

The Eyes and the Impossible

Dave Eggers

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

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