Susan Pfeffer: Shade of the Moon

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When Miranda first hears the warnings that a meteor is headed on a collision path with the moon, they just sound like an excuse for extra homework assignments. But her disbelief turns to fear in a split second as the entire world witnesses a lunar impact that catastrophically alters the earth’s climate—and results in mass devastation.

Told in Miranda’s diary entries, this is a heart-pounding account of her struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all—hope—in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar time.

“Each page is filled with events both wearying and terrifying and infused with honest emotions.”

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Alex Morales was working behind the counter at Joey’s Pizza when life as he knew it changed forever. He was worried about getting elected as senior class president and making the grades to land him in a good college. He never expected an asteroid would hit the moon. He never expected to be fighting just to stay alive.

“The powerful images and wrenching tragedies will haunt readers.”

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It’s been a year since a meteor collided with the moon. For Miranda Evans, life as she knew it no longer exists. Her friends and neighbors are dead, the landscape is frozen, and food is increasingly scarce.

The struggle to survive intensifies when Miranda’s father and stepmother arrive with a baby and three strangers in tow. One of the newcomers is Alex Morales, and as Miranda’s complicated feelings for him turn to love, his plans for the future thwart their relationship. Then a devastating tornado hits the town of Howell, and Miranda makes a decision that will change their lives forever.

“Readers will be moved by displays of compassion, strength, and faith as characters endure grim realities and face an uncertain future.”

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SUSAN BETH PFEFFER’s Life As We Knew It series has received numerous awards and is widely praised by reviewers as action-packed, thrilling, and utterly terrifying. In The Shade of the Moon, characters from the previous books come together in a world where survival is of utmost concern, and new rules for society are established as people grapple with limited resources and food supplies after mass devastation. Ms. Pfeffer lives in Middletown, New York.

Copyright © 2013 by Susan Beth Pfeffer

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948–

The shade of the moon / Susan Beth Pfeffer.

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Sequel to: Life as we knew it.

Summary: “Jon Evans is one of the lucky ones—until he realizes that escaping his safe haven may be the only way to truly survive.”—Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-0-547-81337-0

[1. Natural disasters—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 3. Social classes—Fiction. 4. Family life—Tennessee—Fiction. 5. Tennessee—Fiction. 6. Science fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.P44855Sh 2013

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eISBN 978-0-547-81339-4

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