A Better Place

Though only twelve years old and without a day A NOVELspent in a classroom, June is just as comfortablereading and thinking deeply as she is huntinggame and chopping wood. Thanks to her rusticbut joyful life in the Blue Mountains of WashingtonState, June is growing into a young woman whocombines the best traits of her scholarly motherand her practical father.But when welfare workers and governmentofficials threaten to take June away from herparents, her idyllic childhood is thrown intodangerous turmoil. To defend their way of life,June and her father must run. They escape intothe mountains on horseback with nothing toprotect them but her agile mind and survivalistskills. Will everything June's parents taught herbe enough to outrun the danger? Or will she betaken away from the only home and family she'sever known?

Though only twelve years old and without a day A NOVELspent in a classroom, June is just as comfortablereading and thinking deeply as she is huntinggame and chopping wood. Thanks to her rusticbut joyful life in the Blue Mountains of WashingtonState, June is growing into a young woman whocombines the best traits of her scholarly motherand her practical father.But when welfare workers and governmentofficials threaten to take June away from herparents, her idyllic childhood is thrown intodangerous turmoil. To defend their way of life,June and her father must run. They escape intothe mountains on horseback with nothing toprotect them but her agile mind and survivalistskills. Will everything June's parents taught herbe enough to outrun the danger? Or will she betaken away from the only home and family she'sever known?