Life As We Knew It

from booksandbosox

I became completely engrossed in this novel. Reading it during my lunch break, I started to become legitimately worried about how I would face the freezing cold outside and the lack of supplies in my home. This was certainly a depressing book for the majority of the read - a meteor knocks the moo...

from ladycato

Miranda is a typical teenage girl. When news reports state that a meteor is going to hit the moon, she just grumbles that it's another excuse for homework. The reality is something much more nefarious - the moon is knocked closer into earth's orbit, triggering global tsunamis, starvation, and tec...

from eduscapes

I've always been a fan of near-future disaster books, so when a friend recommended Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer I bought it immediately. When I began reading and realized that it was in diary form, I was hooked. I was engrossed by the idea of how I would prepare for and live through a...

from JuliaKay

This one pulled me into a whole nother world. I would stop reading the book andexpect to find the moon closer to the earth and a bunch of maddness about me. I could not get over how pretty much intranced I was with it. It seemed so real.It was an amazing book.

from runner_roader

A story about a teenage girl, Miranda, who along with the world witnesses a once in a life-time event, a meteor striking the moon. But the meteor not only hits the moon, but pushes it off kilter leading to global natural disasters. The beginning part of this book that I thought was a great exampl...