A Better Place

<p>Though only twelve years old and without a day A NOVEL</p><p>spent in a classroom June is just as comfortable</p><p>reading and thinking deeply as she is hunting</p><p>game and chopping wood. Thanks to her rustic</p><p>but joyful life in the Blue Mountains of Washington</p><p>State June is growing into a young woman who</p><p>combines the best traits of her scholarly mother</p><p>and her practical father.</p><p></p><p>But when welfare workers and government</p><p>officials threaten to take June away from her</p><p>parents her idyllic childhood is thrown into</p><p>dangerous turmoil. To defend their way of life</p><p>June and her father must run. They escape into</p><p>the mountains on horseback with nothing to</p><p>protect them but her agile mind and survivalist</p><p>skills. Will everything June's parents taught her</p><p>be enough to outrun the danger? Or will she be</p><p>taken away from the only home and family she's</p><p>ever known?</p>