After rescuing a neighbor’s dog, her only companion, she becomes increasingly sophisticated in her survival efforts, collecting food and water, learning how to light a fire in her father’s woodstove and, bicycle helmet secured in place, teaching herself to drive a car. A Colorado winter will be coming soon enough. At first, there’s still electricity and running water, but as days turn into weeks and then months, utilities fail, and Madeleine comes to realize that she’s truly on her own. Although there had been hints of unrest, she has no real idea why everyone left or when-perhaps if-they’ll ever come back. Twelve-year-old Madeleine Albright Harrison is inadvertently left behind when her whole region is abruptly evacuated in the night.
Freeman’s middle-grade debut starts with a wallop and carries on from there.
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