Running out of time haddix5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Jessie will have to escape and survive a totally strange world, because she and her friends are all running out of time. Then Jessie’s mother tells her that only Jessie can help-by leaving Clifton.īut Jessie’s mother also reveals a shocking truth about the outside world, and what, where, and when Clifton is. And if they don’t act soon, some of those sick children could die. One night, she tells Jessie that it’s a diphtheria outbreak-a dangerous disease. Quarantine signs appear on the local homes. ![]() Especially the other kids in Jessie’s one-room schoolhouse. ![]() Lately, more and more people have been falling ill. ![]() 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. Jessie Keyser lives with her family in a small log cabin. Return to the classic middle grade time-bending thriller Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, almost thirty years following its first publication, with this stunning repackage.Ĭlifton, Indiana, 1840. ![]()
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