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__** Plot **__ __**Ben**__ In the book, //Runing out of time,// Jenny lives in the 1840's in a village called Clifton. She enjoys her life there as a student, and secretly helps her "ma" go on sick visits in the night. But things for her are about to change. People start getting very sick and they don't seem to be getting better. That is when her ma takes her into the woods on a pretense of gathering herbs, but she reayly goes to a place in the woods with a rock they (as school children) call "King of the hill Rock". This is where Jenny learns that the world outside Clifton Village is way ahead of them, in the 1960's, and that the outside world was supposed to to be supplying them with the modern medicine. Ma says that tomorrow after school Jenny was supposed to come back to the rock and stay there for an hour. If she (Jenny's mother) didn't come then everything was going to be alright. But ma did come back. She gave Jenny modern clothing and a name of someone in the modern, real world, that she should contact. Jenny was supposed to find him and get him to call a press conference to alert the public to the fact that Clifton was not being given needed supplies. Jenny goes out and almost is caught by two guards. She gets into the real world, but she doesn't quite fit in. She manages to get to the outside of the tourist site. Walking into the woods she discovers a fence that is being watched so she can't go over it. Jenny does in the end contact Mr. Neeley, who turns out to be a bad guy, who tries to drug her. Jenny overhears him talking to other cohorts. Jenny manages to get away from the bad guys and calls a press conference to alert people to the difficulties the people of Clifton. In the end things are fixed and all the people of Clifton get well because Jenny gets the medicine they need and unearths the plot to create a gene pool from the villagers to survive diseases.

In the book Matched Cassia lives in a society that controls pretty much everything you eat, wear, do for fun, marry, even die. She finds out who is her match on her 17 birthday. Its her best friend. But then one day she was looking at this device they give them on their match and when she opens it another boy who she knows from her childhood pops up. She kinda freaks out, but tells no one except for her grandpa who is to die in a couple of days. An official comes up to her and tells her someone must be messing with the system. and tells her not to worry about it. But she does. What if her match is not right and its the other boy who she is actually supossed to be with? What if the society is not actually perfect? She questions the society and has to go through knowing she might have two matches.
 * Rachel**