Alone by Megan E. Freeman
Hi my name is Nina I love to read and play sports. My favorite sport is Nordic skiing and my favorite author is J.K Rowling
Maddie is a 7th grader at the start of this story, and she and her friends have an amazing idea for the weekend. They would stay at Maddie’s grandparents vacation home, and party all night long without their parents knowing. Maddie would tell her mom that she was at her dad’s house and her dad that she was at her mom’s house! (They were divorced.) Her friends would tell their own parents that they were sleeping over at each other’s house! A perfect plan, AKA how Maddie got herself into this mess. One of her friends gets sick, so neither of Maddie’s two friends can. Maddie decides to go anyway, so she can sleep in. In the morning, she wakes up, looks at her phone, and sees an imminent threat warning, multiple missed calls, and a voicemail from both her Mom and Dad, both of whom thought Maddie was with the other parent. Maddie finds the whole town has been evacuated and she is all alone. Maddie bikes all around and calls everybody she can, but all the phones had to be left behind along with most of people’s belongings. Maddie goes to her mom’s house and finds the neighbor’s Rottweiler, George, breaking into the cookie jar. She takes him for company. Maddie and George survive multiple years on canned food, bottled water, and books from the local abandoned library. Maddie and George help each other get through tornadoes, fires (that burned down her mom’s house), blizzards, flash floods, looters, bloodthirsty dogs, and, hardest of all, loneliness. Maddie starts to wonder what the imminent threat was in the first place, nothing seemed to be threatening the town, and would she ever be rescued? Did her parents die? Did they still think she was with the other parent? Will they ever save her? Will she have to live like this forever?
This is an adventurous, exciting, and heartwarming story about Maddie growing up all alone with only her Rottweiler, George, to keep her company.
