This World We Live In, where Miranda is reunited with her father and step mother, who have brought Alex with them.Both his parents are immediately killed in the incident, and it's up to him to protect his two sisters and find the food to support them. The Dead and the Gone, told from the point of view of Alex Morales, a young Puerto Rican teenager living in New York City dealing with the meteor strike.

There are three other books in the series, which are: She says 'it got thinking about how the people who have the most to lose if the world comes to an end are kids' and wanted to write about how kids would cope with this particular scenario. The author of this series says she was inspired to write the first book in the Moon Crash Series, Life As We Knew It, by watching Meteor. It's The End of the World as We Know It, though no one wants to admit it. The climate is drastically altered, the coastal areas are hit with tsunamis, the supermarkets are closing as food runs short, the price of gas has risen to over ten dollars, electricity is no longer a guarantee, and the lists of the dead are expanding. But no one anticipates the moon being knocked closer in orbit to the earth and the havoc it causes. Miranda's mother has even baked cookies in honor of the occasion.

However, most people are looking at it as a once in a lifetime chance to see an event like this. Miranda just looks at it as another excuse for extra homework assignments. Everyone is eagerly anticipating an interesting astronomical event: an incoming meteor that is supposed to crash into the moon. Initially, things are normal, and Miranda is looking forward to the upcoming prom and her dad and stepmother have told her that they want her to be the godmother of the child they are expecting. Life As We Knew It is a Speculative Fiction teen novel by Susan Beth Pfeffer, told from the point of view of a teenage girl named Miranda Evans in the form of her diary, which she begins writing in May of an unspecified year probably around the early-mid 2000s.

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