Chapter 1 summary

In chapter 1 we meet the main characters Carey, Jenessa, Mrs.Haskell, and their father. The girls mother is in charge with bringing supplies, but Carey is more of a mother to Jenessa than their own mother. They girls live in the backwoods of Tennessee. When their food supply was running low, they were thankfully found to months after their mother left them. Mrs.Haskell and their father had been searching for them and were planning on taking the girls from the camper they had been living in. Carey decided it was best for them if they left with the strangers.