Re: [LM_NET] BOOK: Life as we knew it by Pfeffer

[JENNY FLORES <jennysflores@YAHOO.COM>]

The companion novel, The Dead and the Gone, is just as good.  It is the same 
scenario but is set in New York City with a 17-year-old Puerto Rican boy as the 
protagonist.  The two books are stand-alones, so it really doesn't matter which you 
read first, and both are "can't put it down" intense.

Jenny Flores
Librarian
Estacado High School
Lubbock, TX
jennysflores@yahoo.com    




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From: Frederick Muller <mullinator52@GMAIL.COM>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2009 2:19:28 PM
Subject: [LM_NET] BOOK: Life as we knew it by Pfeffer

Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Life as we knew it. Harcourt, 2006 [0-15-205826-5
// 978-0-15-205826-5]
WOW! This is by far the most powerful book I have read in a LONG time.
I got so wrapped up in the story, I went into a kind of depression.
Miranda and her family live in western Pennsylvania on May 19th when
the asteroid hit the moon.  It moved the moon on a closer orbit to the
Earth causing tsunamis around the world, earthquakes and floods.  Most
coastal cities in the world are destroyed.  Miranda's mother had the
foresight to hit the food stores and other stores the next morning to
purchase non-perishable food, clothing, batteries and other supplies.
What happens next is that all of society starts to quickly collapse.
Electricity stops, there is very little oil or gas because all the
tanker ships and refineries on the coast were destroyed.  Eventually
the stronger pull of the Moon's gravity causes old extinct volcanoes
to start erupting.  Grey clouds cover the skies as the summer ends and
it starts to get cold..colder...and colder.  This this 337 page book
tells the story of survival when there is no hope for rescue. It is
the tale of death, cold, starvation, friendship, and love.  I will not
say how the book ends.. but it is appropriate.  All I can say.. for
upper middle school to through High School.... don't miss this one!

-- 
Frederick Muller, Librarian
Halsted Middle School Library
Newton, NJ
mullinator52@gmail.com
My book reviews are compiled at http://www.mullersreviews.com
My book review blog is at http://MullerInTheMiddle.blogspot.com

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