Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

New York Times bestseller! A heart-stopping post-apocalyptic thriller that's "absorbing from first to last page."*

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.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's still would be open. 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.

Life as We Know It is an extraordinary series debut. The companion novels are: The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon.

(*Publishers Weekly, starred review)

Susan Beth Pfeffer is the author of more than seventy books for children and young adults. Her bestselling book The Year Without Michael received a starred review from School Library Journal. It was also an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a Booklist Editors' Choice, and winner of the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award. Pfeffer is also the author of the popular Portraits of Little Women series as well as Kid Power, which won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award and the Sequoyah Book Award.

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ISBN 13	9780152058265
ISBN 10	0152058265
Title	Life as We Knew It
Author	Susan Beth Pfeffer
Series	Life As We Knew It
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Clarion Books
Year published	2006-10-01
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Winner of Garden State Teen Book Award (Fiction (Grades 6-8)) 2009, Winner of Nutmeg Book Award (Teen) 2010, Winner of Black-Eyed Susan Award (High School) 2008, Winner of Volunteer State Book Awards (Young Adult) 2009, Winner of Evergreen Young Adult Book Award 2009, Winner of Truman Readers Award 2008, Runner-up for Gateway Readers Award 2008, Commended for Golden Sower Award (Young Adult) 2009, Commended for Tayshas Reading 2007, Short-listed for Young Reader's Choice Award (Senior/Grades 10-12) 2009
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