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Reader reviewed by Alissa

This amazing sci-fi story is about teenagers coping with natural disasters that are destroying the earth. The moon has moved much closer to the earth, courtesy of an asteriod, and natural disasters are rapidly killing everyone. This book, like its predecessor LIFE AS WE KNEW IT, focuses on the events that occur right before and in the months following the moon's shift. The children's parents are missing and the eldest brother is away in the military as the book begins, so the seventeen year old son is in charge of his two younger sisters. We know very little about what is happening worldwide, since there is no television, no newspapers, and the family can not afford a computer. So, even in the brief moments they have electricity, they can not find out what is going on beyong their immediate area. Living in New York City, the reader learns the horrific damage that is happening there, which gets worse every day. The book follows a type of journal format but, unlike LIFE AS WE KNEW IT, it is not told from the main character's point of view - it is told in the third person. This is an amazing book with characters you will come to love. As you read it, you feel as though you are living through the experience with them. Anyone who loves young adult literature should get to this book ASAP (it will be out in June). It is a quick, fun, thought provoking, exciting read.