![]() She tells Jessie to get the cure from a man named Isaac Neeley, who protested the opening of Clifton. ![]() Her mother asks her to retrieve a cure now that her own sister Katie has taken ill the owners of the attraction ceased to provide modern medical care to the villagers in order to preserve its authenticity. Originally it was much more lenient with its villagers when a man named Miles Clifton founded it, but is now very strict and prevents anyone from leaving. Clifton is a replica of a historical village with the tourists hidden, watching the village's activity by video from under the ground. Jessica’s mother takes her to a blind spot for the reveal because all the adults were contracted to not tell the kids. Also, there are cameras all around watching them, but there are some blind spots. During a village-wide outbreak of diphtheria, Jessie's mother reveals it is really 1996, and Clifton Village is a tourist attraction. Jessie Keyser is a 13-year-old girl from the village of Clifton, Indiana, in the 1840s. Running Out of Time is a novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix, published in 1995. ![]()
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