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Between pandemics, power failures, climate-change crises and insurrections, doomsday thinking can be pretty hard to avoid, and calculating how to make it through worst-case scenarios has become an all too common hobby. But Berthoud-based author Megan E. Freeman pulls it off in Alone, her thrilling debut middle-grade novel. The book tells the story of Maddie, a twelve-year-old girl forced to survive after her family has been evacuated from their small Colorado town. With nobody for company but her dog, George, Maddie must figure out how to feed, shelter and protect herself. Since its 2020 release, the book has drawn a positive response from librarians, schoolteachers and kids alike, who are drawn to Freeman s snackable writing style. Most chapters are two- to three-page poems, each with concise, to-the-point writing. While a novel in verse might not sound like the most intuitive draw for growing readers, Freeman is hearing that young people are lured in not just by the plot, but

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