Authors: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Turnabout
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. . . .
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For Mary Greshel and Lacie Tucker,
and in memory of Opal Haddix
With thanks to my grandmother Mary Greshel; my husband’s grandmother Lacie Tucker; and my friend Margot McVoy for indulging my hypothetical questions and for telling me what it was like to live through much more of the twentieth century than I personally experienced. Thanks also to Renee Cho and David Gale for their help with this book and many others.
