Miranda watches with her family as a meteor hits the moon, knocking it into an orbit closer to Earth. Life as they know it quickly changes for Miranda and her family, as a chain of horrific occurances (tsunamis, earthquakes, dramatic climate changes, and volcanic eruptions) creates a life and death struggle for survival for earth's inhabitants. As life goes from bad to worse, Miranda, sixteen years old, writes in her diary.
I can't remember the last time I was so engrossed in a book, not wanting to catch a glimpse of what was going to happen next. Readers will devour this engrossing, page-turning science fiction novel, which was recommended to me by Mary M., Director at the Long Hill Public Library, in a perfect case of "librarian collaboration"!
Life As We Knew It is available at the Long Hill Library and will be available in September at the Central Middle School Library.
Other books in this genre or with similar plots that I recommend are Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse; Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien; and Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden. This is the first book I've read by Pfeffer, who also wrote The Year Without Michael. All of these books are available at the Central Middle School Library, and at the Long Hill Library.
