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Running Out of Time
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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This YA thriller was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Clifton is an 1840 pioneer village. The village doctor used to have special pills that would cure any illness. But those pills are all gone now, and Clifton is suffering from a diptheria epidemic. Mrs. Keyser, the midwife, tells her daughter, 13-year-old Jessie, a shocking truth about Clifton, and sends her for help outside of the village, into a world full of amazing things and unknown dangers.
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9780689838606,
Paperback,
Simon & Schuster,
2000
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9780689852015,
Paperback,
Simon & Schuster,
2002
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9781416905318,
Paperback,
Simon & Schuster,
2005
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9780807280317,
Audio Cassette,
Listening Library,
1998
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9780807280324,
Paperback,
Listening Library,
1998
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9780613016704,
Prebinding,
Bt Bound,
1999
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Synopses
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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