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The Dead and the Gone
By Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-15206-311-5
- Publisher
- Harcourt Children's Books
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2008
Gr 7-Up An asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, and every conceivable natural disaster occurs. Seventeen-year-old Alex Morales's parents are missing and presumed drowned by tsunamis. Left alone, he struggles to care for his sisters Bri, 14, and Julie, 12. Things look up as Central Park is turned into farmland and food begins to grow. Then worldwide volcanic eruptions coat the sky with ash and the land freezes permanently. People starve, freeze, or die of the flu. Only the poor are left in New Yorka doomed ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
Pfeffer's stellar <i>Life As We Knew It</i> followed the increasingly bleak subsistence of a girl in suburban Pennsylvania after an aster...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
