Turnabout

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Summary: great book
Review: Review for "Turnabout"
"Turnabout" presents a modern problem and argument about the fountain of youth. It does not immediately grab your attention in the beginning but the rest of this great and interesting novel makes up for it.
Anny Beth and Melly in the year 2000 were101 years old and waiting to die. One day two young doctors came in and told them to sign a document, without stating what it was for, or why they should do it. They later found out what it was for and that it would change their lives forever.
To the somewhat boring beginning I was asking myself, "why did you pick such a dull book?" However, I persevered and kept reading, now I am glad I did. The rest of the book came a lot more easier than the beginning, and I was quickly swept off my feet by how interesting and eye-opening the book became.
When Anny Beth and Melly are living together in 2085 at the age of 15 and 18, because of the wonder drug PT-1. They receive an e-mail asking about their' former lives. They immediately start to panic and even drive across the country to get away. At this point in the story it became exciting and I started to fear for them and with and I seemed to myself to become a part of the story.
When they arrive in Kentucky and find Melly's great-great-great-granddaughter I was stunned, and I start to wonder about the reporter when they find out their genealogy.

With the abrupt ending I was somewhat mad, and I was begging for more. It was a great book and I recommend it for all.

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Summary: Messing with Nature
Review: Melly and Anny Beth are the two main characters in the book Turnabout. Both are elderly women living in a retirement home when two scientists, Dr. Reed and Dr. Jimson, discover a cure for aging. With a simple injection, the body will un-age. They test their new cure on the retirement home and fake their deaths so their families have no idea about the experiment. As the experiment continues, the scientists uncover more and more flaws. With each passing year, not only do the patients get younger, but their memories of that year are gone as well. The scientists then decide that Melly and Anny Beth are better off living somewhere else for the time being. They live together as two teenagers who do what normal teenagers do, but when a reporter, A.J. Hazelwood, tries to track them down they are forced to move back closer to the clinic. Little do they know that A.J. lived near the clinic as well in Melly's old house. Time is running out for the two to find a caretaker because they are becoming infants again. I would recommend this book because I was anxious to discover the next secret the book held, but it also had some dull points.

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Summary: Turnabout
Review: Margaret Peterson Haddix does an excellent job describing the situtaion in which the two main characters in the book, Amelia and Anny Beth, are in. Switching dates from 2001, back to 2085, gives the reader just the right amount of information without boring you with all the details. This book is a real page-turner. It really prompts your mind to think about the morals of your own life, and puts you in a position to question what you believe is right. A must read book!

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Summary: Great
Review: I thought that the book was great especially because I love sci-fi type stuff. It really makes you think about how one day, maybe, you'll be able to do exactly what Beth and Mellie did. The only thing that was a bit confusing was how Amelia was called Mellie and that Anny and Ms. Finch were the same people. But other than that, GREAT BOOK.

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Summary: TERRIBLE
Review: Absolutely terrible. The story had 2 pages of story and 230 pages of words.The rest was just pure bull. The names were confusing becuase she never told the reader that Amelia could be called mellie or that anny beth's last name was finch! I just assumed that Amelia and Melli/ Anny Beth and Mrs. Finch were completely diff people. Confusing, boring, lacking.

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Summary: Eh.
Review: Turnabout was a so-so science fiction book. I picked it up because I enjoyed past books by the author, but this one was definitely overshadowed by Running Out of Time.

The basic conflict - the unaging process' pros and cons - is interesting enough. I know plenty of people who have mused about what it would be like. Still, I don't think the rest of the story followed through.

To me, everything seemed to be a bit too dramatic, like watching actors in a play try too hard. I appreciated the jumps between years, but when the two characters left the agency I lost a great amount of interest.

What I found trouble dealing with was the technology. Yeah, it's 2085 - what makes you think we're going to be living like that in eighty or so years? Too much of an improvement for that time slot. And, at the end, when A.J. comes in, I laughed. It's ridiculous, all of it. In addition, the ending was terrible. I know sci-fi usually leaves the readers hanging - I like that - but this was just insane.

In as poor a book as this, the author should at least give us a decent conclusion.

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Summary: What will happen next?
Review: "Turnabout" is a great text. This text is filled with non-stop suspense combined with humor. With each turn of the page you are wondering what could possibly happen next. Throughout this text the reader is able to watch the main characters "unage." This unaging process spans over 85 years. The reader is allowed to watch the main characters struggle with the issue of getting younger and wondering who will care for them when they will no longer be able to care for themselves. It's a clever story line that leaves the readers questioning their own moral stance on the issue of medical experiments using human guinea pigs. This narrative was written for teen-agers enjoyment, however, as an adult I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I'm sure my parents and grandparents would also enjoy it. The timeline in this text uses a series of flashbacks to tell the story. This technique is confusing at first, but I think it was the best choice for Haddix to tell this exciting and fascinating tale. I recommend this book to everyone.

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Summary: an awesome book!
Review: When I first started reading this book, I was confused. But after looking at dates on pages, the story seemed clearer. It's a wonderful story about and 100-year-old woman given a chance to unage and live life again. She is told by doctors she can stop at any time and stay the age she's at forever. But when the cure for that fails, she is stuck unaging forever instead. Nobody knows when she and her friend reach 0 if they'll simply disappear, start re-aging, or stay an infant forever. Overall this is a spectacular story! I recommend this to everybody!

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Summary: The Thought-Provoker For Readers Everywhere
Review: In "Turnabout" a 100-year old woman is given the chance to unage, or grow backwards. Hardly being able to hear what her doctor is saying, she gives in and is trying out the drug PT1, which makes people grow backwards. The doctors promise that when they reach the age they like most, they can stop there and become immortal. However, 84 years later, she and her friend, Anny Beth, find themselves 16 years old and no way of stopping themselves from getting younger. Can the pair get a set of parents in time to take care of them? Or will they unage until there birth? If that makes jno sense to you, then read "Turnabout!!"

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Summary: Turnabout
Review: Turnabout
By:Margaret Peterson Haddix
Reviewed by:K. Shimamoto
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This book is about two very old women named Amelia and Anny Beth. In the year of 2000 they are both living in a nursing home. They are much too old to take care of themselves. The doctors and nurses there are testing a new formula called PT-1, which they think is supposed to unage the very elderly men and women in the home. Instead of getting older they would each year get younger, just by getting an injection of formula. Both, Amelia and Anny Beth take the risk of trying out PT-1, they get younger each year and they try to adjust to all the new technology and fashion. The doctors can't stop the unaging, and both women decide they will need a parent to take care of them. In the end they stop worrying about everything so much, and decide to make the most of the time they have left.
I liked this book becuase, the main idea of it was very interesting. I think unaging would be pretty exciting, but like in the story it would have major consequences. The character I liked the most was Anny Beth, she usually always had something sarcastic to say, or she would give comic relief in tense situations, for example,she said,"And now- now when I really need to lie and break promises- I'm stuck with the only moral person in this dang century."
I disliked this book because, some of it was a little confusing at times. All the switching around of years was probably the most confusing. You really don't know what happens at the end either, it simply ends like this,"Clear at last, until the next bend in the road."
My favorite part of the book was, when Amelia finds out about one of her relatives. Her name is A.J. Hazelwood, she'd been trying to contact Amelia before, but Amelia couldn't answer back in case she blew her cover of "Melly". I like this part because it's pretty exciting and you find out a lot about the charaters in the section of this story. This book overall in my opinion was pretty good.