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Life As We (hopefully) Will Never Know
When a meteor strikes the moon, and knocks it closer to Earth, calamity ensues. The climate and society are in upheaval and sixteen-year-old Miranda’s life in small town Pennsylvania will never be the same. Life as We Knew It is told as diary entries made by Miranda, the average, girl-next-door heroine who is plunged into extraordinary circumstances. Susan Beth Pfeffer has created a likeable and identifiable character who I cheered for in her fight to survive and wept for in her moments of despair. The follow up book, the dead and the gone, tells the story of the same event from the perspective of a teenage boy who experiences the devastation in NYC.
-- Reviewed by Michelle Delisle
