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Life As We Knew It

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J. Kaye Oldner.

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Written by Susan Beth Pfeffer.
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Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, 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.
    
Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.

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J. Kaye Oldner thinks this book is Good.

This book is part of a group read. If I'd read about this book prior to agreeing to join in, I probably would have passed. It has two things I dislike. One is it's written like a diary. Next, it's an apocalyptic story. Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD and Stephen King's CELL cured me of ever wanting to read another gloom and doom book.

It took a couple or so chapters to set the characters up and then BAM! I couldn't stop reading. I'd plan to pace myself, following the schedule like a good reader. The minute the moon thing happened, there was no way! I didn't read this one fast, but stayed up late reading it all this weekend. I had to know how it'd end.

To show you how good it was, there were a couple, maybe more things in the book that were totally unbelievable. I didn't care. I was emotionally vested in the characters and I needed them to be alright in the end. A couple of times Pfeffer had me wondering if it would be alright. I held my breath wondering which other person was going to die next. I held on to them as the mother did, refusing to let go, never giving up hope.

If you aren't a YA reader, don't be quick to turn your back on this one. Every now and then, an author comes along who can entertain the old as well as the young. Pfeffer accomplished just that with LIFE AS WE KNEW IT.

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