Book review 1

Quarter 1 Outside reading book

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. October 1, 2006. Genre:Fiction

Miranda, the main character in Life As We Knew It has to fight for her life when asteroids hits the moon on Wednesday, May 18. It creates worldwide disasters because when the moon shifts, so does the environment. It wipes out many coastal cities, killing millions of people. There is a very limited supply of food which leads many people to starvation and murder just to get food from people. Miranda and her brother can no longer go to school and there is no supplies at the grocery store left for people to buy. How long can Miranda survive with minimal food and water, no heat or electricity, and subzero temperatures.

The conflict in the book is that the world is coming to an end and people are running out of supplies and resources. Miranda just wants to lead a normal life but she can’t because of what is going on around her.

The theme of the book is to never give up, always have hope and look on the bright side.

“We may not have a future, but you can’t deny we have a past.” -Miranda

This quote shows that even though the future isn’t looking so good, she has lived a good life in the past and that is all that matters.

I give this book 4 paws - pounce on it, because it was a good story and I really enjoyed it, but at times it could be confusing and parts of the book didn’t make sense.