A visit to where everyone boarded the transports brings the realization that all cell phones were confiscated and left behind. There are voicemails from both parents assuming Maddie is on one of the emergency transports with the other parent. In the light of morning, she discovers that everyone in town has been hastily evacuated. In the middle of the night, there is a commotion outside, and someone bangs on the door, but she stays quiet, so as not to get in trouble. She organizes the evening, but then her friends are unable to make it, so she spends the night there alone. She and a couple of girlfriends plan a secret sleepover at her grandparents’ empty summer apartment. She texts her dad that she is going to be at her mom’s house, babysitting her younger siblings. She texts her mom that she is going to be at her dad’s house, working on a big history project. In the suburbs outside Denver, Colorado, twelve-year-old Maddie Harrison takes advantage of her divorced parents' trust.
Maybe it makes a difference that this is fiction, because ALONE is breathtakingly exciting, and powerful.
“Fun survival story” sounds a bit oxymoronic. I don’t know whether a survival story can be characterized as fun.
Soldiers erecting rows and rows of tents. Priority to secure the homeland.infrastructure Little darling, it seems like years since its been here” “Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter “Desolation (n.) deprivation of companionship emptine sorrow woe” Keywords: survival, girls and women, loneliness, self reliance, dog, books, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old, 13 year old, novels in verse, dystopian Can Maddie’s stubborn will to survive carry her through the most frightening experience of her life?-from the publisher 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.
Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. She’s alone-left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. 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. 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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