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Running Out of Time
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Simon & Schuster Children's
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 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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Let's Talk:
Ideas to Explore Together
Before you read: If you could go back in time, what time would you go to? What do you think an epidemic is?
After you read: How do people fight diseases? What would you have done if you were Jessie?
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