Description: Grade 6-8-Pfeffer tones down the terror, but otherwise crafts a frighteningly plausible account of the local effects of a near-future worldwide catastrophe. The prospect of an asteroid hitting the Moon is just a mildly interesting news item to Pennsylvania teenager Miranda, for whom a date for the prom and the personality changes in her born-again friend, Megan, are more immediate concerns. Her priorities undergo a radical change, however, when that collision shifts the Moon into a closer orbit, causing violent earthquakes, massive tsunamis, millions of deaths, and an upsurge in volcanism. Thanks to frantic preparations by her quick-thinking mother, Miranda's family is in better shape than many as utilities and public services break down in stages, wild storms bring extremes of temperature, and outbreaks of disease turn the hospital into a dead zone. In Miranda's day-by-day journal entries, however, Pfeffer keeps nearly all of the death and explicit violence offstage, focusing instead on the stresses of spending months huddled in increasingly confined quarters, watching supplies dwindle, and wondering whether there will be any future to make the effort worthwhile. The author provides a glimmer of hope at the end, but readers will still be left stunned and thoughtful.-John Peters, New York Public Library Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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EAN: 9780152061548
UPC: 9780152061548
ISBN: 9780152061548
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Book Title: Life As We Knew It
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Fantasy / General, Dystopian, General, Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes), Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, Science Fiction
Publication Year: 2008
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
Item Weight: 7.9 Oz
Item Length: 7 in
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Item Width: 5 in
Book Series: Life As We Knew It Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
