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Elevenyearold Rigel Harman loves her life in offthegrid Alaska She hunts rabbits takes correspondence classes through the mail and plays dominoes with her family in their tworoom cabin She doesnt mind not having electricity or running waterinstead shes got tall trees fresh streams and endless sky
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 theyve never met Rigel hates it in Connecticut Its noisy and crowded and theres no real 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 hell bring her back home
At first surviving the year feels impossible Middle school is nothing like the wilderness and she doesnt connect with anyone until she befriends a crow living behind her school And if this wild creature has made a life for itself in the suburbs then just maybe Rigel can too
365 Days to Alaska is a wise and funny debut novel about finding beauty hope and connection in the world no matter where you areeven Connecticut
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