Running Out of Time
Run For Your Life 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...
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Run For Your Life 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780689812361 (0689812361)
ASIN: 0689812361
Publish date: 1997-02-01
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Prenna is a teenager who chafes at the rules. Not the normal rules: the 12 rules instituted by the Community to hide the fact that she, her mother, and everyone she loves are from the future; a place in which a blood plague kills, the climate is out of control, and food is scarce. Her brilliant and ...
Really fascinating and creepy story. I'd had it recommended to me as "that book it seems like M. Night stole his idea for The Village from", and I can definitely see why! It kept me hooked till the very last page.The perfect read for Dewey's Read-A-Thon.