Far from You Also by LISA SCHROEDER I Heart You, You Haunt Me This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. SIMON PULSE An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 Copyright © 2009 by Lisa Schroeder All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. SIMON PULSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Schroeder, Lisa. Far from you / Lisa Schroeder.—1st Simon Pulse ed.

Lisa Schroeder is the author of the teen verse novels The Day Before; I Heart You, You Haunt Me and its companion novel, Chasing Brooklyn; Far from You; and the teen prose novel Falling for You. She is also the author of the middle grade prose novels It’s Raining Cupcakes, Sprinkles and Secrets, and Frosting and Friendship. Far from You by Lisa Schroeder Alice has felt as if she's been spiraling down the rabbit hole ever since her mother passed away. It's been a few years since her mother's death and she is still suffering from her loss.

Summary: A novel-in-verse about sixteen-year-old Ali’s reluctant road trip with her stepmother and new baby sister, and the terror that ensues after they end up lost in the snowcovered woods. ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-8988-2 ISBN-10: 1-4169-8988-9 [1. Novels in verse. Survival— Fiction.] I. PZ7.5.S37Far 2009 [Fic]—dc268 Visit us on the World Wide Web: Dedication For my mom, with love While other kids went to Disneyland, you took me to Grandma’s house and the library. What a lucky little girl I was. Acknowledgments Lindsey Leavitt and Lisa Madigan, you complete me.

Hp Jetadmin Solaris. Thank you for your wisdom and insight, and your willingness to read at the drop of an e-mail. Sara Crowe, agent extraordinaire, a million times, thank you for all that you do. Michael del Rosario and the fine folks at Simon Pulse, I appreciate your efforts and hard work more than I can say. Scott, Sam, and Grant, thanks for your unwavering enthusiasm. I’m pretty sure when God was handing out families, He saved the best one for me.

Kate, Deena, Emily, and Tina, my Author2Author blog buddies, thanks for letting me join you. I’ve learned so much from you! Sally, you are, and always will be, my jukebox hero, and I just want to say thanks for being my loving, supportive friend. Dan, Dolores, and Margie, thanks for the laughs and making work fun. To my friends in the LJ hood, thanks for being there through it all.

Jason Wade, you don’t know me and you’ll probably never read this, but I just had to tell you that I’m not sure I could have written this book without your music in my ears. Finally, thank YOU, wonderful reader. Thank you from the bottom, top, and sides of my ever-grateful heart. Far from You Contents day four softly snowing part 1: every thing’s always changing here she comes just breathe the short version our time is now the peace I need me and God holes of the heart what to do? The good stuff almost the perfect day the best oh, so gently before, after, and somewhere in-between the long version Lost Without You a gift of love could it be? Spicy doesn’t add up do I have to go to school? Install Printer Without Cd Epson. Do I look like I care?

Thank God for Johnny now what? You’re welcome woof where’s my fairy godmother? Trust in me is that on the SATs?

Getting jerky with it on the tip of my tongue getting personal not a solo artist not hungry foul the answer hold on tight what does it mean?