365 Days to Alaska By Cathy Carr 9781419743801 (Hardback)

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Family & home stories (childre

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Wordery

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Abrams books

365 Days to Alaska : Amulet Books : 9781419743801 : 19 Jan 2021 : A thoughtful middle-grade debut about a girl from off-the-grid Alaska adjusting to suburban life   Eleven-year-old Rigel Harman loves her life in off-the-grid Alaska. She hunts rabbits, takes correspondence classes through the mail, and plays dominoes with her family in their two-room cabin. She doesn't mind not having electricity or running water-instead, she's got tall trees, fresh streams, and endless sky. But then her parents divorce, and Rigel and her sisters have to move with their mom to the Connecticut suburbs to live with a grandmother they've never met. Rigel hates it in Connecticut. It's noisy, and crowded, and there's no real nature. Her only hope is a secret pact that she made with her father: If she can stick it out in Connecticut for one year, he'll bring her back home. At first, surviving the year feels impossible. Middle school is nothing like the wilderness, and she doesn't connect with anyone . . . unt

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