- Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Diphtheria, Fiction
Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana, in 1840 -- or so she believes. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother reveals a shocking secret -- it's actually 1996, and they are living in a reconstructed village that serves as a tourist site.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and resolved.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret Peterson Haddix
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Bodley Head Children's Books, Demco Media, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780689838606
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