Running out of time
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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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Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Diphtheria, Mystery and detective stories, Science, Fantasy & Magic, Experiments, Mystery fiction, Social conditions, Eugenics, Accelerated Reader, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 8, Indiana, fiction, Children, diseases, fiction, Children's fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy fictionPlaces
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Running out of time
1995, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
in English
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1995, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana, in 1840 -- or so she believes. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother reveals a shocking secret -- it's actually 1996, and they are living in a reconstructed village that serves as a tourist site. In the world outside, medicine exists that can cure the dread disease, and Jessie's mother is sending her on a dangerous mission to bring back help.
But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a world even more alien and threatening than she could have imagined, and soon she finds her own life in jeopardy. Can she get help before the children of Clifton, and Jessie herself, run out of time?
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