jac581's review against another edition
5.0
I remember reading and rereading this book after the author came to speak at my elementary school.
sydarv's review
4.0
Went on a library tour of Western Pennsylvania so I could reread this guy while home for the holidays. As a 9-year old, this book was peak frontier adventure-story with a bad-a** female lead who not only survives on her own in the wilderness, but also bakes bread for all her friends!
For just over 150 pages, this book is ACTION-packed. Maggie Callahan, a teenager sent to live with her aunt and uncle in central Pennsylvania, arrives to find her family has headed West without her a la Home Alone 1 and 2. At her aunt's abandoned cabin, Maggie meets Jake Logan--regrettably not a hot boy with a promising surf/modeling career--but a grizzly 60-something year old mountain man who is most *definitely* a sexual predator. SOS.
After surviving drowning in a river, being buried alive in snow, and burning to ashes in the fire that destroyed her cabin, Maggie works her way into the hearts and stomachs of her frontier community, but eventually leaves it all to travel West with J-Dawg Logan to find her Aunt Franny after all. Stay tuned for Book 2!
For just over 150 pages, this book is ACTION-packed. Maggie Callahan, a teenager sent to live with her aunt and uncle in central Pennsylvania, arrives to find her family has headed West without her a la Home Alone 1 and 2. At her aunt's abandoned cabin, Maggie meets Jake Logan--regrettably not a hot boy with a promising surf/modeling career--but a grizzly 60-something year old mountain man who is most *definitely* a sexual predator. SOS.
After surviving drowning in a river, being buried alive in snow, and burning to ashes in the fire that destroyed her cabin, Maggie works her way into the hearts and stomachs of her frontier community, but eventually leaves it all to travel West with J-Dawg Logan to find her Aunt Franny after all. Stay tuned for Book 2!
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