Life As We Knew It | 
| Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher: Harcourt Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Edition: 1
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 360
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0152061541
EAN: 9780152061548
ASIN: 0152061541
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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It's almost the end of Miranda's sophomore year in high school, and her journal reflects the busy life of a typical teenager: conversations with friends, fights with mom, and fervent hopes for a driver's license. When Miranda first begins hearing the reports of a meteor on a collision course with the moon, it hardly seems worth a mention in her diary. But after the meteor hits, pushing the moon off its axis and causing worldwide earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, all the things Miranda used to take for granted begin to disappear. Food and gas shortages, along with extreme weather changes, come to her small Pennsylvania town; and Miranda's voice is by turns petulant, angry, and finally resigned, as her family is forced to make tough choices while they consider their increasingly limited options. Yet even as suspicious neighbors stockpile food in anticipation of a looming winter without heat or electricity, Miranda knows that that her future is still hers to decide even if life as she knew it is over. Veteran author Susan Beth Pfeffer, who penned the young adult classic The Year Without Michael over twenty years ago, makes a stunning comeback with this haunting book that documents one adolescent's journey from self-absorbed child to selfless young woman. Teen readers won't soon forget this intimate story of survival and its subtle message about the treasuring the things that matter most—-family, friendship, and hope.--Jennifer Hubert
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Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid 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. In her journal, Miranda records the events of each desperate day, while she and her family struggle to hold on to their most priceless resource--hope. Includes a teaser to the companion novel, The Dead and the Gone.
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 cynical August 23, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
 Best post apocalyptic book I've ever read! August 22, 2008
This book was amazing! I normally take a month to read a book since I have a young child, but I was completely obsessed with this book and finished it in two days. I couldn't stop thinking about the book when I wasn't reading it. I'm going to start reading the dead & the gone tonight and I'm so excited. By the way I found the author's blog and it is very interesting. http://susanbethpfeffer.blogspot.com It sounds like there is a third book on the way that takes place in Texas about a girl named Sarah. I can't wait!
 exciting, interesting YA read August 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was an extremely powerful book to me. Pfeffer is an amazing novelist, and she makes the whole situation seem so incredibly, frighteningly real that your mind really begins to wonder if this could happen to us, and if so, how would we survive?... Would we survive at all? And that reality, that terrifying thought that the whole premise of the bookcould actually happen, makes it such an intriguing and fast-paced read. I truly couldn't put this book down, I NEEDED to know what was going to happen to Miranda and her family, I needed to know that they were going to make it through and that eventually the world would begin to stabilize again. I especially enjoy the way Pfeffer wrote the characters, I really ended up caring about all of them and hoping so badly that they would all be ok in the end.
The best book ever August 19, 2008
This book is very well written and is an easy read. In addition it is written so well that it made me start to think what I would do in the same position as the main character. I recommend this book to everyone!
 Life As We Knew It August 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the worst books I've ever read. Looks like it was written by a 12 year old trying to seem 16 years old but it would only be interesting to someone who was about 8 years old. Extremely boring, totally unrealistic to anyone who even has a 5th grade science background (The scientists didn't predict that the asteroid would throw the moon out of orbit?), kept waiting for something tough or interesting to happen which never did, no serious struggles for any of the characters (who weren't very well developed at all), lots of questions left unanswered (she keeps wondering about her dad's new wife and the baby throughout the book and gets a few letters from her dad and what not but we never find out anything), went on and on about how ridiculous it was to believe in god in such a scenerio when even the toughest of atheists would probably be filing into church, and on and on and on. I was going to try and use this for my esl students but it would be way too boring for them. Avoid this book unless you have absolutely nothing else to do (like if the moon were actually hit by an asteroid and you had used all your other books for firewood and you only had clothes and a fire and no food). I will never buy another book at an airport again. I only gave it the one star because I didn't see any grammar mistakes and there were a lot of pages. I totally wasted about 6 hours of my life. Total wannabe ripoff of Ann Frank. Wish I could get a refund.
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