When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. As months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. But Maddie's most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness...

This novel in verse profiles Gerda Taro, a vibrant, headstrong photojournalist with a passion for capturing the truth amid political turmoil and the first woman photojournalist killed in combat. Daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants, Gerta Pohorylle doesn't quite fit in with her German classmates. When she returns from school, she joins a group of young activists and is arrested for distributing anti-Nazi propaganda. In Paris Gerta meets Hungarian...