Out of Time (Haddix)

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. 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.

Return to the world of the bestselling Running Out of Time with this middle grade thriller from Margaret Peterson Haddix, where Zola discovers she's related to Jessie Keyser and her seemingly perfect utopian world is covering up a dark reality. Twelve-year-old Zola thinks she has the perfect life. She thinks everyone does, now that it's 2193, and humanity has solved all its problems. Insta-Closets deliver new clothes every morning, Insta-Ovens deliver gourmet meals on demand, and virtual reality goggles let her have any adventure she wants, with friends from all over the world. Then one day Zola finds a handwritten note in her Insta-Closet: If you want to see things as they really are, come find me. What if Zola's wrong about everything, even the year? As she struggles to figure out who wrote the note, she discovers a printed book in her Insta-Closet called “The Jessie Keyser Story: How One Girl Escaped from Clifton Village”. Zola wonders: Who is Jessie Keyser, and why does she look like her... and what else do they have in common? In this sequel to the classic novel “Running Out of Time”, Margaret Peterson Haddix has crafted a riveting page-turner that captures the terrors of a world where nothing seems real, but finding out who really loves you still matters.