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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.

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. She’s alone—left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned.

With no one to rely on, no power, and no working

Book ID Asin: 1534467572
Book Title: Alone
Book Author: Megan E. Freeman
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Alone by Megan E. Freeman Book Review

Name: Lovelyline
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Loved this Survival Book in Verse
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 14, 2023
Review: Such a page turner! I have so many questions about the ending, but loved the fierce female. Novel in verse made the story fly.

Name: Lynda
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Perfect read
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2023
Review: Purchased this for my 8yo - third grader after a recommendation. She could not put it down!

Name: Fran
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Granddaughter request.
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 18, 2023
Review: She expressed pleasure at seeing it.

Name: hungry reader
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Even More Important Than Survival Is...
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 10, 2021
Review: Almost-thirteen-year-old Maddie is “a ghost in a twenty-first century ghost town,” after a mysterious event wipes out the entire population Millerville, Colorado—overnight—in Megan E. Freeman’s ALONE.

What happened? How and why was Maddie spared? Will she survive? Will she find her family? Will her family find her?

Maddie’s experience really is a kid’s worst nightmare. Narrating through striking, skeletal prose, she discloses details about herself, her family, and her friend, Emma, a fashionista—who never told Maddie about her parents’ pending divorce.

“I am on my own…childhood is over.” Matter-of-factly, Maddie doesn’t complain. A resourceful and independent bookworm, Maddie “gets to work,” moving to her dad’s house, stocking up for winter, growing a garden, outwitting hungry coyotes and looters, and overcoming other “impossible obstacles."

It doesn’t take long for Maddie to realize survival is more than food, water, and shelter. She craves the irreplaceable comfort of people. Not even Maddie’s furry companion George can replace the sound of the human voice. There is none like it “in all the world,” Scott O’Dell’s epigraph warns the reader. Maddie wants her mom. She’d even settle to be back in math, surrounded by people she “didn’t even realize [she] loved.” A flushing toilet lends her a moment of feeling human again.

As fall moves into winter, spring, summer, and back into fall, Maddie reads, sleeps, and forges her way through the days. The reader imagines her sitting by the fire, flashlight in hand, journaling in what becomes the book.

Between the bindings are words about words. Even the spaces speak. Heaven, Exploration, Peril, Desolation, Acceptance, Reconciliation: ALONE is broken into parts by single, stark terms and their definitions. A postcard, text messages, voicemail, a book report, and a letter to God add depth and dimension to structure and plot. Like an ice crystal in the Colorado winter, the novel catches light, giving color and hope to what it means to be human.

Freeman artfully adds hollow beauty to the survival story. Maddie’s whispers trail from the last pages: “There is only this / the touch of their hands / skin on warm skin / to be held / to be seen / to be heard / to be known / these are the nutrients…”

Name: Sandra K. Stiles
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: On the Edge of Your Seat
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 25, 2021
Review: Maddie is a typical teen living in Colorado. Maddie splits her time between her mom and step-dad’s house and her dad and step-mom’s house. She and two of her friends hatch a plan to spend a night at Maddie’s grandparents apartment alone. Maddie tells her mom she is staying with her dad and tells her dad she is staying with her mom to babysit. She goes to her grandma’s apartment and waits for her two friends to arrive. Unfortunately, their parents call her mom and are told she is at her dad’s so they can’t go anywhere. Then the unimaginable happens. Maddie hears sounds of panic outside of her grandma’s apartment. People are being rounded up. She hears the neighbor tell the person in charge that the owners are out of state. Maddy wakes the next morning to learn that everyone in her town has been evacuated due to an “imminent threat”. This begins Maddie’s journey to survive. She doesn’t know what the threat is. As she goes about town she finds a barrel with cell phones in it. She dials her mom’s number and hears a phone ring in one of the barrels, she tries her dad’s phone and her friends’ phones only to realize every one of them were left behind. This is a story of survival. It starts with Maddie talking to one of her step-brothers about the book “Island of the Blue Dolphins”. There are definite similarities between the book and Maddie’s new reality. I loved that this was told in verse which made it a very quick read. The emotional aspect as you go day by day and year by year on this ride with Maddie makes you wonder what you would do if you were left behind. Can’t wait to put this on my school shelves.

Name: Wendy M
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good paperback book
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2022
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Name: Amazomcustomer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: great pre-teen to teenager book
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 21, 2022
Review: Alone by Megan Freeman is a great book about a tired, rebellious teen that has to switch back and forth between two divorced parents looking for a break. A break that turns out to be a long 3 years alone. I love all the references used in the book to other stories, authors and poetry. I love how the girl uses the library as a constant reference place and continues to read throughout everything going on. I think that writing could be more structured in complete sentences, rather than the choppy thought that are used. The author does a great use of details and figurative language as she writes that allows the reader to easily visualize and story and feel like you are there along with the character. Megan Freeman does a great job at building anxiety through the character and allowing the reader to feel as the character feels in the text. I would rate this book overall a 5 out of 5 stars based on the uniqueness and quality of how the story is told. It seems to be written for children as young as 10 and closer to a 5th grade reading level, but can easily be enjoyed by adults as well!

Name: Reposter
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Colorado survival
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 17, 2022
Review: I really liked the formatting of the book - like poetry. I think kids who struggle with too many words on a page would do well with this format! Great dystopian survival story that is plausible and even potentially identifying for early teens.