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(Review) Midnight at the Electric

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Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson Publication Date: June 13th, 2017 Pages: 272 (hardcover) Genre: Young Adult My Goodreads Rating: 4 stars Goodreads Synopsis: Divided by time. Ignited by a spark. Kansas, 2065 . Adri has secured a slot as a Colonist —one of the lucky few handpicked to live on Mars. But weeks before launch, she discovers the journal of a girl who lived in her house over a hundred years ago, and is immediately drawn into the mystery surrounding her fate. While Adri knows she must focus on the mission ahead, she becomes captivated by a life that’s been lost in time…and how it might be inextricably tied to her own. Oklahoma, 1934 . Amidst the fear and uncertainty of the Dust Bowl, Catherine fantasizes about her family’s farmhand, and longs for the immortality promised by a professor at a traveling show called the Electric. But as her family’s situation becomes more dire—and the suffocating dust threatens her sister’s life—Catherine must find the