When Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse says that she's working on something a little different, you take note. From the first draft, we knew this new direction was also completely brilliant. Illustrated throughout with her own hauntingly beautiful photographs, Safekeeping is a vision of a near-future America that only Karen could write: real, gripping, and deeply personal.
Radley just wants to get home to her parents in Vermont. While she was volunteering abroad, the American People's Party took power; the new president was assassinated; and the government cracked down on citizens. Travel restrictions are worse than ever, and when her plane finally lands in New Hampshire, Radley's parents aren't there.
Exhausted; her phone dead; her credit cards worthless: Radley starts walking.