Turnabout

by Haddix, Margaret Peterson

• ISBN13: 9780756916336
• ISBN10: 075691633X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Perfection Learning

Summary

In the year 2000 Melly and Anny Beth were old and ready to die. But when offered the chance to be young again by participating in a top-secret experiment called Project Turnabout, they agreed. They received injections that made them grow younger, and it seemed like a miracle. But when the injections that were supposed to stop the unaging process turned out to be deadly, Melly and Anny Beth decided to run for their lives.Now it is 2085. Melly and Anny Beth are teenagers. They have no idea what will happen once they are babies again, but they do know they will soon be too young to take care of themselves. They need to find someone to help them before time runs out, once and for all....

Author Biography

Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of many memorable novels for young readers, including Just Ella, Among the Hidden, and Running Out of Time. Her work has been honored with the International Reading Association Children's Book Award, American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults and Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers citations, and several state readers' choice awards.

Where did the idea for Turnabout come from? "I bought a card for a friend, joking that it's actually good that we get older, not younger, on our birthdays because -- as the punch line went -- who would want to live through puberty twice? It made me wonder: What if someone had to? I already had age and aging on my mind because I'd just attended my grandmother's ninetieth birthday party, and I'd recently visited my husband's grandmother in Kentucky, a month before her death. Somehow all those things -- the card's question, the ninetieth birthday, the Kentucky visit -- meshed in my mind. Turnabout was the result."