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Title: Running Out Of Time,

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Reading Level: Ages 10-12



Plot Summary: Jessie Keyser is a teenage girl who who lives in a log cabin with her mother, a midwife, her father, a blacksmith and her five siblings. The children believe it is the year 1840. What Jessie doesn't know is that the year is actually 1996 and she lives in a replica of an 1840 village and she is being constantly watched by tourists and guards. Suddenly, local children begin to fall ill of diphtheria and some are dying. Medicine is not being provided to them, even though it is readily available.

Jessie's mother sneaks her out into the woods one night, gives her modern clothes, food and instructions on how to use a telephone. Jessie's mission is to escape and go get the much needed diphtheria medicine before it's too late. Will she return before diphtheria wipes out the village?



Violence: 10%

Planning: 10%

Feelings/Relationships: 20%

People, objects, places: 60%

Tone: Suspenseful

Time of story: 1900-1920
Setting: United States-Midwest.

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Title: Poison

80%

Author: Chris Wooding

Reading Level: 12 and up

Plot Summary: Poison has always been a willful, contrary girl, prone to being argumentative and stubborn. So when her sister is snatched by the mean-spirited faeries, she seeks out the Phaerie Lord to get her back. But finding him isn't easy, and the quest leads Poison into a murderous world of intrigue, danger, and deadly storytelling. With only her wits and her friends to aid her, Poison must survive the attentions of the Phaerie Lord, rescue her sister, and thwart a plot that's beyond anything she (or the reader) can imagine. . . .

Violence: 30%

Planning: 10%

Feelings/relationships: 10%

People, objects, places: 50%

Tone:Suspenseful, Thrilling, Mysterious, Driving, Terrifying, Sick, Disturbing, Thought provoking, Ironic

Time of story: Once Upon A Time

Setting: Fantasy

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