Running out of time

Type

Book

Authors

Margaret Peterson Haddix

ISBN 13

9780689812361

Tags

thriller, young adult fiction, Black-Eyed Susan Book Awards, Grand Canyon Reader Awards, Sequoyah Book Awards, YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adults Readers, children, Diphtheria, Epidemics, experiments, quests, Resourcefulness in teenage girls, Restored towns, science, Sick persons, Surveillance, Thirteen-year-old girls

Abstract

When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.

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