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In 2021, Freeman’s ALONE was my favorite book of the year and I, like many others, spent much time wondering why everyone had to evacuate that Colorado town where Maddie was left behind to survive on her own. In AWAY, we get our answer and in a 4 way POV with a mixture of NIV, movie script, production diary, letters and newspaper articles. The foursome, Ashanti, Teddy, Grandin and Harmony, come together at an evacuation facility and make some astonishing discoveries. Hard to continue reviewing without giving away the way Megan Freeman decided to round out the story begun in ALONE, but readers will be creating their own explanation as clues are revealed almost making this a mystery-action-adventure. And with so many true to life motivations as well as factors that actually exist in these United States and in its leaders, it is possible to add realistic fiction to its descriptors as well!

Outstanding conclusion and highly recommended for libraries serving grades 4-8. Text is free of profanity, sexual content and violence.

Note: Readers could enjoy this one without having read the early ALONE, but if they then tried to go back to it, the “aloneness� would lose some of its impact. Strongly suggested to read the two books in order…but maybe have both of them close at hand so you can quickly move from one to the other!

Thanks for sharing an arc with arc-sharing group, BookAllies, Megan Freeman!