Running Out of Time

<p><strong>Return to the classic middle grade time-bending thriller <em>Running Out of Time</em> by Margaret Peterson Haddix, almost thirty years following its first publication, with this stunning repackage. </strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>But Jessie’s mother also