Miranda is 16 years old, her older brother Matt is off at college and her younger brother Jonny is 13. Miranda’s parents are divorced. She and her brother’s live with her mom, who is a writer, and her dad is remarried to Lisa, who is pregnant. On May 18 an asteroid is supposed to hit the moon and everyone is planning on watching it, it almost seems festive, like a party. However, once the asteroid hits it shifts the moon closer to the earth and causes the earth’s climate to change in drastic ways. Electricity is gone, grocery stores run out of food, gas goes up to $10+ a gallon and school is closed indefinitely... Will things ever get back to normal? Miranda wonders, but what she doesn’t realize is the worst is yet to come.
This is the first book in The Last Survivors series.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Life as we knew it. Graphia, 2010.
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