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media type="custom" key="7799919" align="left"__**Turnabout **__
 * By: Margaret Peterson Haddix **


 * Haddix's //"Turnabout"// wowed me with it's twisted race against time and it's fascinating challenges that face us during a human life. **


 * Melly Hazelwood and Anny Beth Flix are two ordinary elderly people living in a nursing home until one day project Turnabout changed their lives forever. The doctors in charge of project Turnabout gave Anny Beth, Melly, and all the other people in the nursing home a chance to be young again. Being 100 years old, they accept the offer and get a shot of PT-1 to be young and beautiful once again. The injection does a process of de-aging, so every birthday they have they get younger instead of older like a normal person. They were also told about the injection called PT-2, which stops the de-aging process but truly just makes a person grow old and die.It is now 2085, Melly is 16 and Anny Beth is 18 and they are starting to get nervous of what is to come when they reach 0 years old or when they are too young to take care of themselves. Meanwhile Melly looks for a foster family and a job so that her and Anny Beth can survive later on. Melly finds out that one of her descendents is looking for her, more specifically a reporter. The two teens run back to Melly's hometown in search of avoiding the eyes of the media, but what about their de-aging process? What will happen when they reach zero? Read to find out if the person they are avoiding might be their savior after all. **


 * __Characters__: The two main characters are Anny Beth and Melly. Melly is always worrying about everything and she is always very nervous. Anny Beth has more of a sarcastic additude and never wants to think about the consequeces of dangerous situations. **

__**Setting: **__**There isn't really a specific setting in this book because the time periods are always changing. At one point in the book it's 2001 and other times its 2085. They also visit Melly's hometown in Kansas. **

**__Science Topic:__ This book is related to science because it has to do with reverse aging and it has medical terms like injections.**


 * This page-turning novel was definitely a wonderful book. I think anybody who likes a suspensful book would love this. Haddix really made you overanalyze the concept of de-aging in this book and i would recommend this to anyone! **