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Safekeeping
by Karen Hesse
Ages: 12+
Published: 2012
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-1-250-01134-3
Keywords: Friendship, Survival, Diversity
ARC Dependent solely on her own resources to survive, sixteen-year-old Radley flees her Vermont home in fear of a new fascist U.S. Government. Haunting photographs of the fictional route to Canada taken by the author.