And miraculously enough they have magic well water that works without an electric pump. And they do live in a wooded area and happen to have a wood-burning stove. She has a quick thinking mom who at the first opportunity rushes to the grocery store and buys close to a dozen carts of food and other necessities before the shelves are emptied completely. So how does one survive? Where do you find food? How can you ever have enough when you don't know how long this crisis will last? How long it will be before food supplies reach your town? What if no relief ever comes? How do you find water? How do you cook your food if you have a gas-stove or electric stove? How do you heat your homes without gas, oil, or electricity? How do you keep things sanitary and hygienic? How do you stay healthy? How do you stay smart? They are dealing with the loss of modern conveniences- extremely limited amounts of natural gas and oil, and no electricity. Not just from tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, and volcanoes, but from disease and malnutrition too. No one-at that point-knows how bleak it will be, how many lives will be lost. Miranda's world is turned upside down one May-and it isn't just her world-when an asteroid crashes into the moon bringing it closer to Earth nature turns violent, extreme, deadly. It stars Miranda and her family (a mom and two brothers-Matt, the older, Jonny, the younger).

(The only other book I reread with that much regularity is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.) I believe-counting the audio book-that this was my fifth time to read this bleak book. It's one of the few young adult books that I reread regularly. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer is one of my favorite books.

Life as we knew it book 2