365 Days to Alaska av Cathy Carr

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<B>Cathy Carr’s </B><B><I>365 Days to Alaska</I></B><B> is a charming debut middle-grade novel about a girl from off-the-grid Alaska adjusting to suburban life.</B><BR/> <BR/> 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.<BR/> <BR/> 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 <I>hates</I> it in Connecticut. It’s noisy, and crowded, and there’s no <I>real</I> 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.<BR/> <BR/> At first, surviving th