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Life as we knew it by Susan Pfeffer is an amazing book full of many suspenseful turns that leave you wondering.

Susan Pfeffer has a very wonderful style of writing. She makes you feel like you are living during the time that the moon became closer to the earth, and she makes it seem so believable. For the relation to science, the book talks about how when the moon is moved closer to earth, all of the things the moon controls are then completely messed up, causing danger and death for many.

In a small town in Pennsylvania, Miranda, along with the rest of the world, is suddenly struck with the realization that life is not going to continue as it had before the moon came crashing towards earth. Soon, her and her family are stalking up on food, and later are thankful they had when all the stores have closed up. No electricity, no head or ac, and soon, no running water. Life is suddenly as no one would have thought it might have ever become.

While reading the book, I was almost never able to put it down. I would give the book four stars. Anyone who likes books that make you read until the end, keep you in suspense, make you wonder, or leave you wanting more, would love reading this book.

Characters:

Miranda: Her parents are divorced, and she might not get to see her father again. Being the middle child seems hard, she feels she had two extra years of a normal life that her younger brother didn’t.

Matt: Matt was off at college, and came home right before the world started to fall apart. Being the oldest, he seems to be responsible for so much more now.

Jonny: The youngest of the three, he is still able to comprehend what’s going on. Even though the world seems to be ending, he still has time to go to baseball camp.

Mom: Being a single mom with three children and a cat when the world is falling apart seems to be pretty stressful.

Dad: He is married and has a new child on the way; will he even get to see his other kids again?

Lisa: Married to Miranda’s father, new baby on the way.

Megan: Suddenly very religious, and not eating.

Sammi: Still one of Miranda’s best friends, but they are never going to see each other again.

Mrs. Nesbit: The kind old lady is as much as a mother figure to Miranda’s mother as she can be.

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Picture: Life as we knew it. Digital image. //Trashionista//. Web. 9 Jan. 2011. .