Tweens and young teens who are looking for an adventure survival story will love this story about Madi. But as he learns new things from the NASA scientists who assemble him, he begins to develop humanlike feelings. As a reader we truly feel how alone the character is, feel the changing of seasons with her, her need for survival and her lone adventures. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory - even if it means traveling the globe alone. Meredith, Alone by Claire Alexander is an emotional story about a woman who hasn’t left her home in months.

Along the way he illuminates the role that friendships play in our lives – can they be a response to the loss of meaning in a world in crisis? Drawing on personal experience, as well as philosophy and sociology, Schreiber explores the tensions between our desire for solitude and our need for companionship and intimacy.She is an Impact on Education Award winner, a fellow with the Colorado State University Writing Project, a Fund for Teachers fellow, and a member of the Colorado Poets Center. The lockdowns have separated people from other people, and all of the deliveries to our doorsteps make it easy to just be at home. At turns harrowing, inspiring, uplifting, and downright heartbreaking this is a tale for our times, for so many of us can now relate to the experience of isolation and loneliness and the imperative to survive.

It’s a book that will spread like wildfire between the kids and is perfect for those teachers who ‘don’t have much time for reading.When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair.

My kids aren't old enough to read books on their own (not chapter books), so I keep anything I've read that I think they'll enjoy later on. Age-wise, there are a handful of mild curse words scattered throughout and one pretty grim scene involving a kitten as well as some references to boys, kissing, and some philosophical/existential wrestling with the concept of god/life/death -- all of which I was frankly glad to see; this is an unflinching tale of isolation and survival that behaves accordingly and doesn't talk down to its upper-tween audience. A profoundly enlightening book on how we want to live, Alone spent almost a year on Germany’s bestseller list. I read it with a literature class that I taught at my homeschool co-op just a couple of years ago, so it was fresh in my mind.

For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. Really insightful thoughts about appreciating people in the here and now because wow you miss them when they’re gone.

We Are Unprepared is a novel about the next big storm, the one that changes our relationship to nature and each other. The simple acts of survival are given to you exactly how they most likely would play out and without added sugar. When 12-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. The challenges and contours of a life spent largely alone is the subject of Schreiber's reflective, elegantly written book – a bestseller in Germany and recently translated into English. December is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve-year-old receives a life assignment determined by the Elders.

I recommend this for your older middle grader or young adult for there is language and the hardship she faces can be graphic at times. Her mother, Delonda, had literally just gotten up off the couch and ridden her rickety bicycle down the road. Sheena Meyer is the girl that brings an extra sandwich to school each day just in case someone doesn't have lunch.