But no matter how I shove the army jacket around underneath me, I can’t get comfortable, and I can’t fall asleep. My mind keeps going around and around, worrying about all the things that could go wrong, feeling bad about losing the quarters, missing my parents, worrying about Wren, hoping we can...
This time, we’ve decided to start our trek so that it coincides with the school and factory commute. Since it’s all seven of us now, Rosie thought that blending in with the crowd, at least for part of the walk, would be safer. A bunch of thirteen-year-olds wandering the street on a school day wou...
Maddie cries. “They must have gotten up before dawn and gone.” “But why?” Evelyn wonders out loud. “Rosie,” Maddie says. “She somehow convinced the others to leave us behind.” The moment Maddie says this, I know she’s right. She probably told them we were going to get into trouble for bringing th...