Life as we knew it

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Label

Life as we knew it

Statement of responsibility

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Creator

• Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948-

Author

• Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948-

Subject

• truePost-apocalypse
• truePennsylvania
• Natural disasters -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSurvival (after environmental catastrophe)
• trueSixteen-year-old girls
• Families -- Juvenile fiction
• trueScience fiction
• trueMeteors
• trueTeenagers
• trueSurvival
• Diaries -- Juvenile fiction
• Science fiction
• trueDisasters
• Diaries -- Fiction
• trueDiaries
• trueNatural disasters
• trueGlobal environmental change
• trueLife change events
• trueApocalyptic fiction
• Science fiction
• trueTeenage girls
• Family life -- Fiction
• trueFamilies
• trueDiary novels
• trueSurvival (after disaster)
• Natural disasters -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueScience fiction
• trueApocalyptic fiction
• trueDiary novels

Language

eng

Summary

Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions

Member of

• Moon Crash trilogy, 01
• Last survivors, 01
• trueLife as we knew it

Theme

• trueClimate change apocalypse

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueEmotionally intense
• trueBleak
• trueStrong sense of place

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Award

• Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland), High School, 2009.
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2006
• Garden State Teen Book Award (New Jersey), Fiction (Grades 6-8), 2009.
• Nutmeg Children's Book Award, Teen category, 2010.
• Truman Readers Award (Missouri), 2009.
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2011
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2007

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

770

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

MG+

LC call number

PZ7.P44855

LC item number

Lif 2006

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

770

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 6
• 8

Reading level

4.7

Series statement

• Moon Crash trilogy
• The last survivors

Series volume

• 1
• 1]

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

adolescent