life as we knew it by susan beth pfeffer

Electricity gone - climate changed, food gone, and no one, no one was safe anymore. Disaster after disaster, chaos and fear gripped the world. But those folks who were inland were safe.īut that was day one, and just the beginning. Casualties on the eastern seaboard are in the hundreds of thousands. Cape Cod was completely submerged and the barrier islands off the Carolina coast. All power was lost, and the Statue of Liberty was washed out to sea. Tidal waves twenty feet or higher in New York City. There was massive flooding all over the eastern seaboard. There were reports of widespread tsunamis because of the tides. TV reception also was fuzzy but finally came through and the news was horrible. The cell phones were out and the telephone lines were erratic. Everyone rushed home to their phones and TV's. It was pushed out of its orbit and it wasn't benign anymore but terrifying and panic filled the air. It was tilted and wrong and it started getting larger and larger until it was smack in the middle of the sky, way too big, way too visible. The moon was no longer a half-moon anymore. A woman screams and people start yelling. When it hits, everyone cheers, and then it gets deathly quiet. The whole town is out in front of their houses with telescopes and binoculars. An asteroid is headed right for the moon and will hit on May 18th. Miranda is excited, and not just her, but everyone on the whole planet is excited. But what Miranda and her family don't realize is that the worst is yet to come. Everything else in Miranda's life fades away as supermarkets run out of food, gas goes up to more than ten dollars a gallon, and school is closed indefinitely. But her disbelief turns to fear in a split second as the entire world witnesses a lunar impact that knocks the moon closer in orbit, catastrophically altering the earth's climate.

When Miranda first hears the warnings that a meteor is headed on a collision path with the moon, they just sound like an excuse for extra homework assignments. Publishing Information :Harcourt: Orlando, Fla., 2006

Life as we knew it by susan beth pfeffer