You cannot open a book without learning something.

~Confucius

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Life as We Knew It

By Susan Beth Pfeffer

You can add this book to my list of post-apocalyptic novels. I had never heard of this author before, but apparently she's written over seventy novels for young adults. Even though this is considered a young adult novel, I found myself enjoying the novel and wanting to read more by this author. This novel doesn't read like a young adult novel and instead seems like a novel simply where the main character is a young adult (17 years old).
In the first two chapters of the books, you learn that an asteroid is about to hit the moon. This is the first time such an asteroid will be visible to the naked eye, so everyone is excited. No one is particularly worried because asteroids hit the moon all the time. Asteroids are what make the craters on the moon. The only problem is, the asteroid is more dense than expected and it pushes the moon into a different orbit. This causes tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, and unpredictable weather. What follows is one family's attempt to survive the chaos.

Similar Novel: Z for Zacharias by Robert C. O'Brian
Length: 360 pages
Copyright: May 2008

1 comment:

Mama Ferris said...

Can you bring it, or is it a library book?