Alone

 

When Maddie decides to have a secret sleepover with her friends things go terribly wrong.  First, her friends can't show up and then overnight the world changes.  Everyone is evacuated from the town and because she told her mom she was at her dad's and vice versa they think she is okay and safe.  Cell phones have been taken from all the evacuees and then shortly afterword power goes out.  Maddie is totally alone until she finds a dog who becomes her only companion.  She is totally alone and has no way of knowing if and when anyone will return.  Can she survive all alone?

This was a good book - the poetic narrative keep the plot moving right along.  I will say that the ending really reminded me of Hatchet in that the "rescue" came very quickly.  But unlike Hatchet there was no afterword to give some explanation.  That might drive some readers (like me) crazy.  For me there was not enough back story.