Through the journal of a 15 yr old girl, A single mother and her three children struggle through natural disasters, and struggle to stay fed, warm, and sane.

This book was highly depressing, but unfortunately could happen. I feel that this is a great book for young adults to see how their life would change and that video games and new cell phones really mean nothing. Survival is the most important thing and that's something most kids born after 1980 haven't had to think about, at least not until 2001 and then things were still far away.

3.5***

Miranda is a typical teen – worried about whether she’ll be asked to prom, fighting with her Mom, eagerly awaiting her big brother’s coming home from college (he’s promised to teach her to drive), and looking forward to being godmother to her father and stepmother’s new baby. Lately all the news is about some asteroid that is going to collide with the moon. The night of the big event, there’s a sort of party atmosphere on their rural suburban road – with families sitting outside to witness it. But once the meteor hits, people quickly realize that things are NOT the same. In fact, the moon has been knocked out of kilter and closer to earth by the collision. No one is quite sure what this means, but it’s clear that things will never be the same.

Generally, I am not a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, but I really enjoyed this book. It’s YA fiction and the writing is somewhat simple, but the efforts of this family to pull together and survive the aftermath of this world-wide disaster make for a very interesting and compelling read. Miranda tells the story through her diary / journal entries and we clearly see her mature over the course of the work. There were some factual errors that irritated me (you can’t pump well water if you have no electricity), but I got caught up in the family relationships and the ways in which they worked together to survive.