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Plot Summary of Out of Time
"    A 16 year old girl goes back in to the Victorian Era in order to be reunited with Strat, the love she left behind a little over a year ago. She has to overcome several obstacles in order to get to the asylum where he is confined but she manages to outwit the antagonists. Meanwhile, her family falling apart, will she go back to save her family or will she stay with her true love? "
Lizbeth , Resident Scholar

"Annie is 17 and goes back to the Victorian Era a second time to not only reunite with a lost lover, but to escape her parents' problems and she discovers some things about herself on the way as well. She has to overcome many obstacles in order to get to the asylum where her love (Strat, whom she had to leave almost a year ago) is confined because he told someone about her. She manages to outwit the antagonists. In her time though, her family is falling apart. She has to choose between saving her family and staying with her love."
Summer Spirit, Resident Scholar

" Annie Lockwood travels from her time (1995) to 1898 to find her lover Strat. Strat is in an asylum and Annie must save him. Annie and her family are in a difficult spot as her mother is in Tokyo and her dad is with another woman. When Annie travels through time to 1898 Strat's sister helps Annie get to the asylum and save him. But Strat is engaged to Harriet, Strat's old lover and they must get to her before she dies. Harriet is in a cure cottage and dosen't know where Strat is and is afraid she may never see him again.

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shelby clemens, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Out of Time
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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 10%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10%




Time Travel: - largely backwards/past
Romance Yes
Romance plotlets: - two lovers coping with tough mission
Inner Struggle Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Time Travel story? Yes
Story largely takes place in - Middle Ages-1899

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
Terrain - Forests
Earth setting: - 20th century - 19th century
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
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