Marvelous Middle Grade Monday
Alone (Aladdin, 2021) by Megan E. Freeman is a fascinating near future novel-in-verse that shouldn’t be missed.
Twelve-year-old Maddie wakes up in her small Colorado town and finds herself completely alone. No family. No friends. No neighbors. Not even strangers. Maddie discovers a rottweiler named George, and must keep them both alive without electricity, running water, or anyone to help.
This was a hard to put down story. I love that we along with Maddie don’t know what happened.
And it has won many awards:
Alone is a “New York Times bestseller, winner of the Colorado Book Award, the High Plains Book Award, the California, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Japan, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Vermont Children’s Book Awards, an NCTE Notable Verse Novel, and named on dozens of ‘best of’ book lists.” Wow!
Just this month, a companion book set in the same story universe, has come out. It’s called Away. I’m really looking forward to it.
Read about Megan here.
reaching for sun by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer will be coming out from Bloomsbury in March 2007.