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. to the highway advocacy group Lets Get Washington Moving, whose traffic studies he funded and arranged. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. Last year alone, Freeman donated 174,500 through his Kemper Development Co. She’s alone-left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. It provides a systematic way to engage in literary analysis discussions and thematic writing throughout the novel.

This reading strategy resource is designed to get students thinking about the thematic connections before, during, and after reading a novel. 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. Alone by Megan Freeman reads like a modern day Hatchet, a survival story. Freeman attended an elementary school where poets visited her classroom every week to teach poetry, and she has been a writer ever since. 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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