# Books like Running Out of Time

**10** books similar to *Running Out of Time* by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Fantasy · grades 3–8), matched on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level. Every pick is grade-appropriate (a reading-level match, not just a topical one) and links to where it is assigned in US schools.

**Themes:** adventure and adventurers, fiction, diphtheria, mystery and detective stories, indiana, fiction
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## Similar books

- [Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey](https://readinglist.school/book/dont-you-dare-read-this-mrs-dunphrey) by Margaret Peterson Haddix _(Grades 6–9)_ — Is by Margaret Peterson Haddix, the same author, both on the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award list, and overlapping grades (6–9).
- [Ella Enchanted](https://readinglist.school/book/ella-enchanted) by Gail Carson Levine _(Grades 4–7)_ — Both on the Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award list (+1 more shared list), same genre (Fantasy), and overlapping grades (4–7).
- [The Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine](https://readinglist.school/book/the-mysterious-matter-of-i-m-fine) by Diane Stanley _(Grades 3–5)_ — Shares themes of mystery and detective stories, both on the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award list, and same genre (Fantasy).
- [A Deadly Game of Magic](https://readinglist.school/book/a-deadly-game-of-magic) by Joan Lowery Nixon _(Grades 6–8)_ — Shares themes of mystery and detective stories, same genre (Fantasy), and overlapping grades (6–8).
- [Among the Hidden](https://readinglist.school/book/among-the-hidden) by Margaret Peterson Haddix _(Grades 5–8)_ — Is by Margaret Peterson Haddix, the same author, overlapping grades (5–8), and the same era (1990s).
- [Ghosts Don't Get Goose Bumps](https://readinglist.school/book/ghosts-dont-get-goose-bumps) by Elvira Woodruff _(Grades 3–5)_ — Shares themes of mystery and detective stories, both on the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award list, and overlapping grades (3–5).
- [Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher](https://readinglist.school/book/jeremy-thatcher-dragon-hatcher) by Bruce Coville _(Grades 4–6)_ — Both on the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award list, same genre (Fantasy), and overlapping grades (4–6).
- [Nightmare Mountain](https://readinglist.school/book/nightmare-mountain) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 3–6)_ — Shares themes of adventure and adventurers, fiction and mystery and detective stories and overlapping grades (3–6).
- [Stranger with My Face](https://readinglist.school/book/stranger-with-my-face) by Lois Duncan _(Grades 6–8)_ — Shares themes of mystery and detective stories, same genre (Fantasy), and overlapping grades (6–8).
- [The Name of the Game Was Murder](https://readinglist.school/book/the-name-of-the-game-was-murder) by Joan Lowery Nixon _(Grades 3–8)_ — Shares themes of mystery and detective stories, both on the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award list, and overlapping grades (3–8).

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