Why Emmy loves this book
This book is the best dystopian I have read in at least five years-maybe ever. Miranda's life seems so real, and I got chills. Again, I wish I could read it for the first time. My cousin reccomended it at 5:00 PM, I was done with the first book at midnight, and read the rest of the series within two weeks, even though that took up my monthly babysitting salary.
3 authors picked Life as We Knew It as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 12, 13, 14, and 15.
New York Times bestseller! A heart-stopping post-apocalyptic thriller that's "absorbing from first to last page."*
When a meteor knocks the moon closer to earth, Miranda, a high school sophomore, takes shelter with her family.
Told in a year’s worth of journal entries, Life as We Knew It chronicles the human struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all—hope—in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.
As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited…