Maryann Easley

00008132

00001997

14-year-old Allison Atwood is traveling to visit her mother in Alaska when her plane crashes near the Arctic Circle. The pilot is killed, leaving Allison stranded among ice and snow until she's found by an Inupiat trapper. He takes her to his village which is nothing like her home in California. In the village, she learns the meaning of daily hardship and survival.

Comparisons to Hatchet are misleading. Our gal is not alone - she just feels that way until she learns to accept the community's perspective. A tiny bit implausible, maybe, or a tiny bit forced, but still interesting and involving.