Books with title Running Out of Time

How many fourteen-year-old boys would turn down an offer of time travel to any baseball game in history? Certainly not die-hard New York Yankees fan, Matt Collier. Accompanied by the Time Keeper, guardian of Time throughout the universe, Matt becomes the batboy for his beloved team and tries to change the outcome of the 1960 World Series, the first ever to end with a homerun.

How many fourteen-year-old boys would turn down an offer of time travel to any baseball game in history? Certainly not die-hard New York Yankees fan, Matt Collier. Accompanied by the Time Keeper, guardian of Time throughout the universe, Matt becomes the batboy for his beloved team and tries to change the outcome of the 1960 World Series, the first ever to end with a home run. Carol Lynn Thomas received a bachelor's degree in English from Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey and a master's degree in Education from the University of Evansville in Indiana. She spent 32 years teaching English, reading and creative writing in middle schools. When she's not swimming or practicing yoga, she divides her time between writing and consulting for the Middle Grades Reading Network. She lives in Wilmington, Delaware with her husband Ben whose vast sports library breathed life into Out of Time. Paul Michael Garcia received his classical training in theater from Southern Oregon University in Ashland, where he worked as an actor, director, and designer. He has gone on to perform at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

How many fourteen-year-old boys would turn down an offer of time travel to any baseball game in history? Certainly not die-hard New York Yankees fan, Matt Collier. Accompanied by the Time Keeper, guardian of Time throughout the universe, Matt becomes the batboy for his beloved team and tries to change the outcome of the 1960 World Series, the first ever to end with a homerun.

As if a bucket of cold water had suddenly been poured over him, Mikey became acutely aware of his plight. If this was really happening, he was stuck in the past.“I’ve seen a few movies and TV shows about time travel,” he said. “People stuck in a different time always find their way home.”Easier said than done. Mikey is an average Scottish school boy who is unexpectedly catapulted through time. Can he and his new friends find a way to return him to the 21st century?

When Cases Get Personal…Two friends of the Andersons had a father who’d just gotten out of jail. He didn’t treat them well, and he wasn’t a nice guy, but that didn’t make him a suspect—until a grandfather clock went missing the night he heard about it. Then, the police picked him up—only to let him go because of an unimpeachable alibi. Did the Andersons have the wrong suspect, or were they making some other mistake? Either way, they’d have to watch their step, for someone would soon be—OUT OF TIME

The life of a soldier in the Australian Army wasn't an easy one. Never knowing if he was coming home or not, it was easier for Lieutenant James Everett to just stay single. He didn't like the idea of leaving someone behind that didn't know if he was alive or dead. But then he met Riley... Riley had a rule. Do not date soldiers. Especially not soldiers that are friends with her best friend, Captain Matthew Mackenzie. Matt had talked about James before, but Riley wasn't expecting the Greek God dressed in camo that came home on leave with him. Those three weeks were magical, but then their leave was over and James and Matt are sent back to Iraq. A month into their tour and an explosion turns everyone's lives upside down. Will James be able to keep his promise and get back to Riley?

Robert Black is a software designer and has just invented a mobile phone app that allows him to travel in time. Far too hastily he shares his 'Eureka' moment with his wife, Sarah. Things don't go to plan and they end up travelling in time... in their bodies... and they become children again : younger than their own three teenage children.Out of Time is an eighty minute play to be performed by children, teens, young adults or English language learners and details Robert and Sarah's journey as they try to become who they once were.The audience witnesses the varied places they teleport in and out of; including a rugby match, a tribe of cannibals, on board the Titanic fifteen minutes before the iceberg hits it, to Scotland in 1047 with Macbeth's three witches, the living-room at Buckingham Palace, to a very bleak computer screen dominated future, to a parallel universe where Sarah is getting married to someone else and finally to the future where they meet themselves...but older versions.During all this time their children wonder where their parents have disappeared to and struggle to cope in the day to day running of the house whilst adapting to a life with adult supervision.