The Age of Miracles : A Novel

from SamSattler

The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker's debut novel, is aimed primarily at the Young Adult market that has come to be so dominated by teen and near-teen female readers. Sadly, boys, who have only themselves to blame for the comparative lack of attention from publishers and writers they get, ...

from browner56

Growing up is hard enough when you are 12 years old, facing all the usual concerns of dealing with parental control issues, social cliques at school, body image worries, and unrequited first love. So, what if you wake up one day and find that the planet you live on has suddenly-and quite mysterio...

from Ronrose1

A young adolescent girl, named Julia, experiences the awakening of her life in a world that is slowly dying. This is a great tale of what if the Earth's rotation starts to slow down. The days and nights grow longer. Sunlight or darkness all over the world 24 hours at a time, then weeks at a time,...

from brenzi

What if we're preparing for the wrong disaster? What if it isn't global warming that spells doom for our planet but something altogether different? These are the questions posed by Karen Thompson Walker in her very intriguing debut novel. It's also the coming of age story of the eleven year old n...

from TheLostEntwife

The Age of Miracles is making a big splash for being such a quiet little book. When I started to read it, I was hooked by the innocent voice and the strange things which puzzled that voice. It's such an interesting idea - the idea of the earth slowing down and time being prolonged. Shortly into t...