Reviewed by Ginger Rogers
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Life as We Knew It. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2006. Print.
It's there in the sky every night, usually visible, sometimes not. Sometimes a full moon, a half moon, a sliver. It pulls the tides, lights up the night, gets credited with causing crazy events when it's full, and old wives tales claim it causes plants to erupt from the ground, hair to grow, and fades clothing left on a clothes line over night. But mostly, it's just there, where we expect it to be, doing what it's always done.
But in Life as We Knew It, when a meteor hits the moon with more force than scientists had predicted, moving it closer to the earth, Miranda, her family, and friends, find out just exactly how important the moon is to every day life on earth.
With the moon frighteningly close and looming over the earth, life, is no longer at all as they once knew it, and each day becomes a matter of survival.
This is the first of a trilogy (a three part story), so if you love it, you'll want to read The Dead and the Gone, and This world We Live In next.
Recently there has been a rumor that the U.S. had a secret plan to blow up the moon with nuclear weapons during the cold war of the 1950's. It would seem that it was just a rumor, but just for fun, you might want to read more about it here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412624,00.asp
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