This incredible tale of survival written primarily in verse is a gripping read! Nora has had to endure a lot, including the death of her mother, and now one year after her mother's death she finds herself alone in the desert after a flash flood sweeps away her father. The combination of prose, free verse, and concrete poetry flowed together beautifully and helped keep me on the edge of my seat. I would highly recommend this book to all survival story lovers in grades 4-6.

Great book, I recommend for anyone who likes action adventure. A BIG page-turner

This new novel in verse from Dusti Bowling was a heart-stopping survival story filled with peril and epiphany. As Eleanor struggles to unite with her father and find a way out of the canyon she ponders the advice of her therapist. There has already been a traumatic event in her past and she is stuck in the "after." Can she find the strength to push through to a new version of that "after" where there is life beyond the grieving? Surviving is filled with decisions and everything is harder than you think it will be. Eleanor embraces that reality and plods on. Anchored with prose on either end of the book, the verse portions tell the story in its glaring reality. I think this one is going to stay with me for quite some time. Hope to see it on the short list for the Newbery in 2021.

A pulse-pounding survival story written in a combination of prose and verse. For fans of Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.