River Run

River Run (After the Dust Settled)

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All Freya can remember is her sister, the basement, and the Man Upstairs. She has no memory of the world outside or of being warm or of not feeling hungry. And now her sister is gone. An unlikely ally shows her how to break out of the basement, but on the frozen banks of the Mississippi, Freya quickly discovers things worse than the Man Upstairs.

Freya is lucky to find Fin...more
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Published (first published October 1st 2012)

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Mrs. ReaderPants

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REVIEW: I really enjoyed River Run, but I wish it were about 300 pages longer. That's right, folks, I actually think a book should be much longer! That never, ever happens--if I complain about a book's length at all, it is usually to say it was overlong. But as I approached the books final pages, I found myself disappointed that it was ending. I wanted to know more about how the world ended up so horrible, how Freya got to the basement in the first place, what ha...more
Andrea thebusybibliophile
Freya’s whole world has always been the basement, her sister Cat and the man who sometimes takes her sister away for a while. But one time Cat doesn’t come back and the man tells Freya she’s gone forever. Completely alone for the first time, Freya is happy when a cat appears in her basement and soon comes to think of the cat as her sister reincarnated (you know, Cat and cat…). The cat shows Freya shows a crack in the wall and she makes her escape. She runs into Finn, a loner who is traveling the...more
Carrie Ardoin
Freya has been living in a dank basement with her older sister Kat for as long as she can remember. But one night Kat does not return to her, and Freya knows it is time to make her escape. She meets up with Finn, a boy who is also on a journey. Together they will try to travel down the Mississippi River to find a home.

This story took me less than an hour to read. There wasn't much there in world building or character development. I didn't fully understand the setting--I'm not sure if the text of...more
Shelley Daugherty
I really like this series for reluctant readers. This story is about a girl who has been trapped in a basement and held captive with her sister. When her sister doesn't come back she escapes and meets a young boy named Finn and together they try to make their way to New Orleans.
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