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media type="custom" key="7800189" //The Dead and the Gone// is an excellent book //by// Susan Beth Pfeffer. It grabbed my attention with dramatic twists and turns on every page. It is full of suspense and puts vivid images of the scenes in your head. //The Dead and the Gone// is an excellent read and I recommend it to anyone who loves suspenseful and dramatic books.

//The Dead and the Gone// takes place in modern day New York. Alex, Bri, and Julie are Porte Rican- Americans who live in an apartment in Queens. They find themselves in a unbelievable situation when their mother is nowhere to be seen and their father is in a thought to be destroyed town in Porte Rico. This all is because the night their mother left an asteroid hit the moon and pulled it out of orbit. With the moon closer to earth tides start acting up and tsunamis crush towns on the coast of any country including the one Alex's father is on. Alex, Bri, and Julie have to fight to survive on their own with little food and no electricity. Fights break out all over the town and people are reported missing and dead all over the place. Worst of all Alex's mother is one of the missing people and the only people that Alex is able to trust are his Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Lorraine. Soon they find themselves taking useful items off of dead bodies to barter for food. Alex's world is getting smaller and smaller. His best friend gets hit by a tree and dies and his uncle and aunt leave to try to get help somewhere else. Alex has to make a decision that could save or end his life. Read //The Dead and the Gone// to find out how Alex, Bri, and Julie fight for survival. The book //The Dead and the Gone// is written in firs person and the person telling the story is Alex. If the story was told by anyone else it wouldn't it wouldn't have the vivid images the main character can put in your head as they go threw different times in the story. Alex is good at making you see the situation he is in. If it was told by a narrator then you would only see what the characters have to deal with, you wouldn't get the feelings. In //The Dead and the Gone// you need to know the characters feelings. The book's characters, Alex, Bri, and Julie, all have different personalities. Alex, who is seventeen, is a leader. He is the president of his highschool class and has been an honor student his whole life. Although he can get through the worst without having a breakdown. Alex has to find ways for their family to survive through this horrific event without any adults to guide him. Alex is good at keeping calm. Julie, twelve, is a strong- hearted girl who can hold on as long as she needs. She may not understand the whole situation but she knows she can't be trouble because it would cause caos. Bri is a quiet small forteen year old girl. She just wants to help but being alive helps the most to her siblings. This book is related to science because of the event that happens. The event is when the moon gets hit by an asteroid and moves closer to earth. It causes major natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, and valcanoes. The setting is in New York. It isn't just New York when the moon gets hit. It starts to smell like ash and rotting flesh. It becomes a land in the middle of nowhere when the food is scarce and no one walks on the streets unless they are searching bodies for useful items. The old New York fades away as the people only think about surviving.

In conclusion //The Dead and the Gone// is a mysterious book that will grab your attention. i recomend this book to anyone who loves suspencful and dramatic books.