Life As We Knew It

Name: Life As We Knew It
ISBN: 9780152061548

Susan Beth Pfeffer

2006·360 pages·young adult

Part of Last Survivors series

Fantasy Science Fiction

after the end dark family dynamics family secrets memoir mortality

“absorbing from first to last page.”
— Publishers Weekly, starred review

A heart-stopping post-apocalyptic thriller. When a meteor knocks the moon closer to earth, Miranda, a high school sophomore, takes shelter with her family. Told in a year's worth of journal entries, Life as We Knew It chronicles the human struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's still would be open. Like one marble hitting another, when the moon slams closer to earth, the result is catastrophic. Worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun. Life as We Know It is an extraordinary series debut. The companion novels are: The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon.

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