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Life As We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
from Harcourt Children's Books

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Great Book!
  This book is so interesting. I am reading it aloud to my middle school grandchildren. We are all enjoying it. What a page turner!

• The perfect diet book
  Miranda and her mother and brother are staying up late to witness an asteroid that is supposed to be hitting the moon. They have taken their lawn chairs and a plate of cookies out and are making a family party of it. But when the asteroid strikes the moon, the moon is pushed out of its orbit towards the earth. They go inside to watch CNN report that tsunamis are destroying all coastal cities. Miranda's brother Jonny offhandedly asks, "Is the world going to end?"
  There won't be any more chocolate chip... more info

• Life as We Knew It
  I originally read this novel because it had been nominated for a science fiction Nebula award. I had never heard of the author before, as I don't usually read teen novels. This is the story of a teenage girl living through an apocalypse. As a long time devote to end-of-the-world stories for over thirty-five years, this is the good stuff. When I first started reading after I had gotten it from the library, I could not put it down. This has not happened to me in several years. I then read it a second time. I... more info

• cynical
  It is a book that makes you aware of your surrounds. When I was reading "Life As We Knew It".. and heard bad news relating to the weather, economic, looting or just feel a breeze and think something is blowing in, I felt apprehensive.
  I need to find another book written for young minds by Susan Pfeffer. I want to know if she is always cynical about a political party who elected a president who just happens to be from Texas. More important, is she cynical about God.
  

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