Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Turnabout. Published in the USA: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002223 pages. (Genre: Sci-Fi)In the year 2000, Melly and Anny Beth are old and ready to die. But they were 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 to them it seemed a miracle. But when the injection kept making them get younger and younger, younger than the scientists planned it to be, it turned out to be deadly. Melly and Anny Beth ran for their lives. Now it’s 2085 and Melly and Anny Beth are back to being teenagers. They have no idea what will happen if they go all the way back to when they are infants. But they know they will soon be too young to take care of themselves and they need to find someone to help them before time runs out once and for all. Their families think they’re dead, the scientists are on a hunt to find the girls, and they have no one to go to. Now that their parents and grandchildren passed away or old, they can’t go to them or they’ll ask too many questions. The technology now-a-days is over the top and they have to buy everything with a credit card. But if Melly or Anny Beth does, the scientists will be able to track them down and take them back to the lab. Anny Beth buys food with money and she has to sign a paper telling why she should get her change back. She insists the person just keeps the money but they want to be fair. They want her to fill in her phone number and address so they could contact her about her money but she refuses and races out of there. In the end, they find a relative that takes them in and waits until they are infants so she can take care of them.
I selected this book by the reviews and reading the back. It sounded like an interesting book and I was drawn in by the future technology. I did enjoy this book and if I was to grade it, I would give it an A!
Reviewed by: walt22
