The Horn Book Magazine, November 1st, 2006
Susan Beth Pfeffer Life As We Knew It 337 pp. Harcourt 10/06 ISBN 0-15-205826-5 $17.00 (Middle School, High School)
"It was still our moon and it was still just a big dead rock in the sky, but it wasn't benign anymore," sixteen-year-old Miranda writes in her journal after an asteroid hits the moon and knocks it closer toward Earth. The immediate result of this event is global devastation in the form of tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, and other cataclysmic natural disasters. But Pfeffer's taut survival story is effective not because it witnesses these catastrophes firsthand but because it ...
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