Life As We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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If you're looking for one of the best books of 2006, then look no further than Susan Beth Pfeffer's LIFE AS WE KNEW IT. A wonderful tale of family love, loss, and survival, this is one story that will stay with you long after you've turned the last page.
There have been lots of changes in sixteen-year-old Miranda's life recently. Her older brother, Matt, is away at college. Her mom is still adjusting to being a divorced parent. Her younger brother, Jonn...more
If you're looking for one of the best books of 2006, then look no further than Susan Beth Pfeffer's LIFE AS WE KNEW IT. A wonderful tale of family love, loss, and survival, this is one story that will stay with you long after you've turned the last page.
There have been lots of changes in sixteen-year-old Miranda's life recently. Her older brother, Matt, is away at college. Her mom is still adjusting to being a divorced parent. Her younger brother, Jonn...more
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Read in May, 2008
Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer is the fourth book I have read from this year's shortlist for the Sheffield Children's Book Award. Despite the fact that Susan Pfeffer is a prolific author with 75 books to her name, this was my first introduction to her work. I was impressed - in fact I've already ordered the dead and the gone, which is the companion novel to Life as we knew it.
Life As We Knew It is in the form of diary, written by teenager Miranda. At the start of the book she is an ordi...more
Life As We Knew It is in the form of diary, written by teenager Miranda. At the start of the book she is an ordi...more
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I thought I was one of the last readers to finally get their hands on this book, but lately I've been seeing quite a few reviews around the blogs I frequent, so maybe I wasn't last! I actually am almost glad it took me until February to get a hold of a copy, now I only have to wait a few months for the sequel, rather than an entire year. :-)
Miranda is a typical teenager in high school, worrying about friends, boys, and homework when her world is suddenly thrown off kilter. Scientists begin ...more
Miranda is a typical teenager in high school, worrying about friends, boys, and homework when her world is suddenly thrown off kilter. Scientists begin ...more
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Read in February, 2007
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Tennage girls that like reading dictionary-diarys
Now I know a one star is pretty bad but when I put my cursor over the one star it says didn't like it and I did not like this book at all. I'm not going to go into full detail because it would torture me but heres the plot: You are reading about a family that lives in Pennsylvania and the character Miranda is a teenage girl living with her mom and brother. Scientists say that a meteor is going to hit the moon, and everyone doesn't really care about being a doomsday because the scientists say ...more
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A meteor slams into the moon, and in a split second, "life as we knew it" is forever altered. Tides sweep over the coasts, and the changed position of the moon gives rise to increased volcanic activity, which turns the sky an ash-gray and blots out the sun. With untold numbers dead and the climate irrevocably altered, a smalltown Pennsylvania family forges ahead, having had the foresight to gather food and supplies immediately after the catastrophe.
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Read in May, 2007
This book was so good. (I read the entire thing yesterday.)
An asteroid collides with the moon, causing it to move closer to the earth. The first effects include a change in the tide, and people on the coasts are decimated. Miranda and her family are pretty safe in Pennsylvania, until gas prices rise and food becomes scarce. Later, the weather itself is affected.
I kept reading because I just had to know if the book, told through Miranda's journal entries, would end abruptly because sh...more
An asteroid collides with the moon, causing it to move closer to the earth. The first effects include a change in the tide, and people on the coasts are decimated. Miranda and her family are pretty safe in Pennsylvania, until gas prices rise and food becomes scarce. Later, the weather itself is affected.
I kept reading because I just had to know if the book, told through Miranda's journal entries, would end abruptly because sh...more
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Miranda hears the news about the meteor about to hit the moon but isn’t concerned, because even though it will be the largest to ever do so, scientists don’t predict anything bad to happen. But they were wrong. As Miranda and her family watch, the meteor crashes into the moon, knocking it out of orbit and closer to the earth. Everything changes. With the tides drastically altered, natural disasters are occurring worldwide causing thousands of casualties, with no end in sight. Everyone is aff...more
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Read in May, 2008
After reading this book I now look at the rays of sunshine coming through my window in a whole new, glorious way and I try really hard to remember to thank God for each and every meal and I am hugging family members for no reason but I gotta tell you if you have a chronic illness or depend on medication to live I don't particularly recommend reading it. I just woke up at 2:00 a.m. in a panic thinking I needed to run to a Walgreens for my insulin because of this book! Basically, in this book an...more
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Read in October, 2007
There's something about post-Armageddon-survival books--they don't usually start with the Armageddon. Either it's the lead-up to and immediate impact of the event, or it starts a week or a month after the event and here's how we're doing. Life as We Knew It starts with the approaching event--an asteroid bearing down on the moon--and the extra assignments that are being piled on at school as a result. But then the moon gets knocked closer to the Earth, and we get the rush at the superma...more
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Read in September, 2007
The news is abuzz with the event that is to occur in which an asteroid will collide with the moon. Little did anyone expect, the force of the collision would be enough to knock the moon out of orbit and fall closer to earth.
This catastrophic event is felt all over the world - volcanoes begin erupting, tsunamis flood out coastal cities, and earthquakes become commonplace.
This book, told in the form of Miranda's diary, details her family's survival following this terrible occurrence. S...more
This catastrophic event is felt all over the world - volcanoes begin erupting, tsunamis flood out coastal cities, and earthquakes become commonplace.
This book, told in the form of Miranda's diary, details her family's survival following this terrible occurrence. S...more
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Read in September, 2007
The book ,life as we knew it, by Susan Beth Pfeffer, is about what would happen if the moon was hit by an The book, life as we knew it, by Susan Beth Pfeffer, is about what would happen if the moon was hit by an asteroid and moved it. The book is focuses on Miranda’s life, after the moon gets moved when a asteroid hit it. Miranda lives with her mom, older brother, Matt, and with her younger brother, Johnny. After the asteroid hits the moon people start going berserk. People start dying,...more
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Read in April, 2008
A Rebecca Caudill (Illinois-Young Readers' Book Award) nominee for 2009, this book is not for the weak-hearted. A meteor is expected to slam into the moon on a warm day in May, and the scientists are excited to be witnessing the event. However, they have underestimated the size and impact of the meteor and it collides into the moon with cataclysmic results. The moon is shifted off of its orbit causing tsunamis, flooding, and volcano eruptions all over the world. Deaths are reported in epic prepo...more
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Read in February, 2008
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Chelsey recommends it for: Teens Girls & Boys, people who like stories told in diary format or end of the world stories
What a great book! This book is told in diary format from the point of view of a 16 year old girl. At the beginning of the book everything is "normal" on earth. Miranda (our main character) finds out from teachers and the news that their is going to be a phenomenon in the night sky in a few days. A asteroid is going to hit the moon and it will be visible with the naked eye. Everyone is very excited about this once in a lifetime phenomenon. Teachers assign homework about the moon, leadi...more
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This book is part of a group read. If I'd read about this book prior to agreeing to join in, I probably would have passed. It has two things I dislike. One is it's written like a diary. Next, it's an apocalyptic story. Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD and Stephen King's CELL cured me of ever wanting to read another gloom and doom book.
It took a couple or so chapters to set the characters up and then BAM! I couldn't stop reading. I'd plan to pace myself, following the schedule like a good reader. ...more
It took a couple or so chapters to set the characters up and then BAM! I couldn't stop reading. I'd plan to pace myself, following the schedule like a good reader. ...more
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Read in February, 2008
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students
This one has been so popular with the sixth graders I actually snagged it from the "return" box so I could finally read it! What a strange, depressing-yet-hopeful story about a family's struggle to survive after the moon is knocked out of its orbit and closer to Earth. It is definitely a page-turner, but I would also find myself kind of down after reading it.
The one thing that bothers me about this book is that Christianity is portrayed in a horrible way. The main character (Mira...more
The one thing that bothers me about this book is that Christianity is portrayed in a horrible way. The main character (Mira...more
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Read in January, 2007
Very interesting book. Kinda scary when you think about the simplicity of a relatively small act of nature causing such major differences in our world. The book turns out being a survival adventure, but it is totally from a girl’s perspective and in diary format. I couldn’t put it down because I wanted to see what else could happen to the world! Don’t read it on a rainy day, though. Her writing makes you feel like you are living the nightmare and the grayness becomes part of you! Chec...more
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Read in March, 2008
I give this book (another of the young adult novels from the book fair) five stars because it is just so darn compelling and I couldn't put it down. I didn't even notice how well written it was or wasn't, but I was definitely drawn in.
It's a story of one family's survival after an apocalyptic event that completely alters the earth, told through the diary entries of a 16 year old girl.
It really gave me a lot of pause when it comes to thinking about food storage and preparedness. This fa...more
It's a story of one family's survival after an apocalyptic event that completely alters the earth, told through the diary entries of a 16 year old girl.
It really gave me a lot of pause when it comes to thinking about food storage and preparedness. This fa...more
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Read in October, 2006
recommends it for:
People interested in Anne Frank, disaster stories, family stories
Miranda, a 16-year-old girl in Pennsylvania, writes in her diary about her frustrations with her mom, her fixation on a handsome Olympic figure skater, her friends at school, and the upcoming astronomical event her teachers are encouraging the kids to watch: an asteroid will hit the moon, and should be visible from Earth. Miranda and her family watch that night, with others on their street, as the moon is not only hit but pushed into a new orbit. Cheers turn to screams as the moon grows disarmin...more
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The plot of "Life As We Knew It" centers on the aftermath of a worldwide catastrophe. An asteroid hits the moon, pushing it out of orbit and closer to earth (I’m not really sure this is possible). Tsunamis, earthquakes, and floods prevail and mass destruction and death ravage the earth. Miranda is a 16 year old girl living in Pennsylvania who chronicles in her diary the effects this event on her life. She used to be a typical teen concerned with friends, swimming, dating, and pro...more
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Read in June, 2007
recommends it for:
middle school and up, if you can handle a terrifying vision of the future
Maia and Nathan recommended this book, and it just took over my whole Friday! I found it absolutely riveting.
16-year-old Miranda is a normal, self-centered teen, hoping she'll get asked to the prom, resenting her dad's new wife, when a seemingly innocent event occurs: a meteor hits the moon. But it hits harder than expected, and the moon is pushed closer to the earth, and the effects move from inconvenient (no cell phone service) to downright disastrous (tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, winter i...more
16-year-old Miranda is a normal, self-centered teen, hoping she'll get asked to the prom, resenting her dad's new wife, when a seemingly innocent event occurs: a meteor hits the moon. But it hits harder than expected, and the moon is pushed closer to the earth, and the effects move from inconvenient (no cell phone service) to downright disastrous (tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, winter i...more
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