Alone

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Traverwood Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / General / Freeman, Megan E.	4-week checkout	On Hold Shelf
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Freeman, Megan	4-week checkout	Due 04-30-2024
Pittsfield Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / General / Freeman, Megan E.	4-week checkout	Due 04-05-2024
Westgate Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / General / Freeman, Megan E.	4-week checkout	Due 05-05-2024

Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten. As months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. But Maddie's most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day. Can Maddie's stubborn will to survive carry her through the most frightening experience of her life?

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Good submitted by manz on June 9, 2023, 2:45pm I enjoyed this novel in verse. It's an interesting dystopian look of a young girl being accidentally left to fend for herself in a subdivision. Great writing. It makes you contemplate how hard it is to be alone.