But Maddie’s most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day. 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.Īs months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. Why they left has long been a puzzle, but a new paper suggests that one surprising factor likely played a major role: rising sea level. Freeman Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 8. Viking settlers occupied parts of Greenland from roughly 985 to 1450, farming and building communities before mysteriously vanishing. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. Freeman Official Publisher Page Simon & Schuster About The Book Reading Group Guide About The Author Product Details Awards and Honors Resources and Downloads Alone By Megan E. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. 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. She’s aloneleft behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. Freeman attended an elementary school where poets visited her classroom every week to teach poetry, and she has been a writer ever since. She’s alone - left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned.

When 12-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare.

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.

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