Life as We Knew It

Roxanne                                                                                              English Period 6                                                                                              September 16, 2009     Life as We Knew It               The book I read is called Life as We Knew It.  This book was written by Susan Pfeffer.  I decided this was going to be the book I was going to write about, because this is one of the books I've enjoyed reading most.  There are many other very nice books that I've read, but I chose this one because it's special.  It's a great story, very captivating and will have the reader want to read more every time they stop.             This is the story about life when an asteroid hits the moon and knocks it out of its orbit, bringing it closer to the Earth.  Miranda, the main character tells the story from her point of view.  She talks about at first, when the moon looked closer and a lot bigger, so many people panicked.  They didn't know what was going on, and they thought they were going to die.  They didn't know what was to come.  Since the moon controls the tidal waves, there were floods and tsunamis happening all after each other.  It was all a huge disaster. There were so many tragedies of people dying one by one, day by day..  There was chaos on the streets and food supplies were running very low.  People didn't have much to eat as rainstorms and blizzards got worse.  Everyone suffered and it was all about surviving this massive disaster.             There were many important parts in the story and I personally think that this quote had some importance to the story.  "Will things EVER get back to normal?" was what Miranda had stated in her diary.  I believe that this was important because it shows how much things changed and how desperate she is to get out of that dangerous mess only to get back to her normal life.  Things had drastically changed that she thought it would never go back to being a normal world.  Apart from all the danger she was in, she just wanted life to be the way it had been before all the bad things happened.                         The rating system I will use to rate this book will be based on moons.  I chose the icon to be moons because the book is about all the danger that the moon caused to the world after the asteroid hit it.  The most amount of moons you could give is five being excellent, and 1 the least, being rated as poor/very boring.  I myself, would give this book 4 moons .  I thought the book was great and it kept me interested until the end.               Life as we Knew It, was really a very nice book.  I would recommend it to teens in my age group, such as from 12-16 years old.  I do believe that other kids who read this book will like it as much as I did.  It's a book that will make you want to keep reading until the end.  For anyone who decides to read this book, it's a great choice and be ready to read a great novel.