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  • 2023
  • Revised paperback edition.

Running out of time

Margaret Peterson Haddix

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"Clifton, Indiana, 1840. Jessie Keyser lives with her family in a small log cabin. Her father is a blacksmith and her mother cares for her and her siblings--though, at night, Jessie's mother also secretly tends anyone who gets sick in their village. Lately, more and more people have been falling ill. Especially the other kids in Jessie's one-room schoolhouse. Quarantine signs appear on the local homes. And Jessie's mother looks worried. Very worried. One night, she tells Jessie that it's a diphtheria outbreak--a dangerous disease. And if they don't act soon, some of those sick children could die. Then Jessie's mother tells her that only Jessie can help--by leaving Clifton. But Jessie's mother also reveals a shocking truth about the outside world, and what, where, and when Clifton is. Jessie will have to escape and survive a totally strange world, because she and her friends are all running out of time."--

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Title Statement Running out of time / Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Series Running out of time ;1
Author Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Publication New York: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,2023.
Edition Revised paperback edition.
Extent of Item 215, 12 pages ;
ISBN 9780063306585 (paperback)
Other Number pr06896403
General Notes Includes an excerpt from: Falling out of time.
Originally published in hardcover: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995.
Audience & Ratings 4.80.
008-012.
Grades: 3-7.
730L.
Summary "Clifton, Indiana, 1840. Jessie Keyser lives with her family in a small log cabin. Her father is a blacksmith and her mother cares for her and her siblings--though, at night, Jessie's mother also secretly tends anyone who gets sick in their village. Lately, more and more people have been falling ill. Especially the other kids in Jessie's one-room schoolhouse. Quarantine signs appear on the local homes. And Jessie's mother looks worried. Very worried. One night, she tells Jessie that it's a diphtheria outbreak--a dangerous disease. And if they don't act soon, some of those sick children could die. Then Jessie's mother tells her that only Jessie can help--by leaving Clifton. But Jessie's mother also reveals a shocking truth about the outside world, and what, where, and when Clifton is. Jessie will have to escape and survive a totally strange world, because she and her friends are all running out of time."--
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Diphtheria--Juvenile fiction
Epidemics--Juvenile fiction
Secrecy--Juvenile fiction
Secrets--Juvenile fiction
By Location Indiana--Juvenile fiction
By Genre Thrillers (Fiction)
Children's stories
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