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Life As We Knew It By: Susan Pfeffer

What if life as you knew it was coming to an end? Food would start to come so scarce that grocery stores wouldn’t care how much the food was costing they would just charge 100 dollars for the whole cart. The gas stations would have so little supplies that they would have to charge 75 dollars for just five gallons! This is reality for sixteen year old Miranda. It all starts when she hears on the news that an asteroid is going to hit the moon on may 18th at 9:30 pm. At first Miranda thinks that this is just an excuse for more extra homework. But when the moon is knocked out of orbit and so close to Earth that you can’t see anything else in the sky she realizes that this is a lot bigger than an essay. Soon after that a lot of weird things start to happen. All the electricity goes out for weeks at a time and school is closed forever. The moon is also affecting the water because all of the states near the coast are floods and the statue of liberty is washed out to sea. Some simple sicknesses like the flu kills billions of people because the hospital doesn’t have money to care for all the sick people. Miranda’s family, her mom and her two brothers, Matt and Jon, are living really well at first because her dad who isn’t living with them anymore brought them 30 cases of food. But as winter comes things become a lot more difficult. The temperatures barley got to 20 degrees on an average day. When t snows the snow isn’t pure white like it usually is. Instead it is a dirty grey. Even though life is hard Miranda tries to live life as normally as possible. She goes to the pond a lot to go ice-skating. Later on her mom sprains her ankle twice and has to move the woodstove, their only source of heat in to the sun room to keep her mom warm. So the rest of the family also moves in to the sun room because everywhere else is cold. One day when Miranda is walking downtown to pick up the mail when she finds out that city hall has had so many people die and left all of their food in the house so the take the food and give one bag of food to each remaining person remaining in their town. The book Life as We Knew It is a really good book. It is full of suspense and I think you might like it to.