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Life as We Knew It

Susan Beth Pfeffer

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#4334 of 8,085 books · #352 in Young Adult

Shortlisted for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy (2006).

Life as We Knew It was a New York Times bestseller. 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. 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.

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Publisher
Harcourt
ISBN-13
9780547415994
Topics
SurvivalFamily bondsPost-apocalyptic disaster

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