Sharon Lovejoy

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

(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.__iddle 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.__pEd News

An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. __ooklist

A_gripping_historical novel . . ._heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.__ibrary Voice

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

Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.__irkus Review

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

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. __chool Library Journal