false 2169506 4 Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event--an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Alex Morales. When Alex's parents disappear in the aftermath of tidal waves, he must care for his two younger sisters, even as Manhattan becomes a deadly wasteland, and food and aid dwindle.     With haunting themes of family, faith, personal change, and courage, this powerful new novel explores how a young man takes on unimaginable responsibilities. 1785549 1 6 2008 The Dead and the Gone (Moon, #2) total:1196|5:301|4:433|3:335|2:103|1:24| 1196 4472 2117 410 5 5 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 11:06:03 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 21:57:49 -0800 2008 Life As We Knew It made me want to create the world's greatest emergency preparedness kit, it was nothing compared to The Dead and the Gone. This book scared the living daylights out of me. After begging a friend for the ARC, I had to put it down instead of reading it straight through i...more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 08:51:21 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 16:25:56 -0700 2008
The two books together make for very interesting reading as both detail what happens to different families during ...more...]]> 3 4 false false Mon Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 21:57:13 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 21:58:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 07:06:46 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 07:20:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Jan 10 07:24:50 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 07:26:41 -0800 2009 The Dead and the Gone is a strange move for an author and likely a disappointment for readers of Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It. Described as a “companion novel” to Life as We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone provides no extension of the earlier novel; instead, we see (again) the crises of tsuna...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 10:12:30 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 10:20:23 -0700 2008 Life As We Knew It was the lack of community awareness — the mom was all about her family, and her family alone, and she's proven right over and over again throughout the book. In th...more...]]> 1 1 false true Wed Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 16:12:16 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 16:23:58 -0700 2008 an amazing a terrible completely got that me convinced that Susan Beth Pfeffer was an amazing author a terrible author, At first, Pfeffer paints a realistic and exquisite picture of a latino family, which slowly starts to tear apart after a near...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 15 22:33:36 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 30 22:14:38 -0800 2009
This one wasn't quite as captivating to me, but still very engaging. I was interested to see a different perspective on the entire disaster, and how differently it affected New York City than it did the smal...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 10:50:31 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 11:39:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 17:15:28 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 18:19:36 -0800 2008
As is the problem in Life As We Knew It, the moon has been hit by a meteor and is knocked off of its axis. The moon is now closer to the Earth which sets off a chain reaction of natural disasters through...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Apr 12 15:54:33 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 17:25:06 -0700 2008 Life As We Knew It. As it was, I was already hip to the premise: asteroid hits moon, knocking it into a closer orbit of earth and unleashing massive worldwide environmental devastation.

But unlike the first book, which was...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 09:44:08 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 09:07:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 21 22:26:32 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 22:27:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 03 05:41:42 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 05:57:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 12:25:25 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 12:26:41 -0700 2009 The Dead and the Gone is a post apocalyptic book, this time set in the present day earth after the moon has been struck and moved by an asteroid, causing disastrous tides, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Seventeen-year-old Alex Morales, devout Catholic and proud Puerto Rican, is left to fend for his tw...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 01 15:57:25 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 16:00:48 -0700 2009
Alex Morales is a 17-year-old Puerto Rican boy living with his family in New York. He has two younger sisters, Briana and Julie, and his parents, who he calls Mami and Papi. Everything is going pretty normally for Alex. He's the vice president o...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 18:11:53 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 19:04:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 10:58:10 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 17:14:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 06:39:08 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 14:16:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 12:37:38 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 11:39:03 -0700 2009 Life As We Knew It, are interesting, well-thought out post-apocalyptic novels, each following a very different teenager through the days following an astronomical cataclysm; where the first book followed the experiences of a middle-class teenager in a small town, this fo...more...]]>