![]() ![]() Cameron gracefully plumbs Anna’s young perspective on family, responsibility, and hope, charting both a tragically premature loss of innocence and a startling evolution as Anna reasons through the impossible situations that confront her. This is a story with a small narrator and a big heart. Lost and completely alone, they find that their only hope resides in Anna’s heartbreaking love for her family, and her struggle to be brave when nothing in her world seems safe anymore. But when the canoe runs aground on the edge of the woods, the sister and brother must battle hunger, the elements, and a wilderness alive with danger. A rogue black bear, three hundred pounds of fury, is attacking the family’s campsite - and pouncing on her parents as prey.Īt her dying mother’s faint urging, Anna manages to get her brother into the family’s canoe and paddle away. While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. Winner of the Northern Lit Award from the Ontario Library ServiceĪ powerful suspense story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack ![]() Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction ![]()
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