Review
Miranda's diary opens towards the
end of her sophomore year at a high school in rural
Pennsylvania. The early entries are those of a
typical teenager - family fights, prom dates,
conversations with friends and just a passing
mention of the meteor that's scheduled to hit the
moon. On the night, like the rest of her family and
neighbors, Miranda sets up her lawn chair to watch
the show, and everybody cheers when the impact
happens, but the cheers turn to screams as the moon
starts to tilt.
The impact pushes the moon off its axis into a
closer rotation with the earth causing immediate and
massive tsunamis that wipe out millions. Soon after
worldwide seismic disturbances cause vast
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. For a few days a...
Beyond the Book
Susan Beth Pfeffer was born in
New York City in 1948. She grew
up in the city and its nearby
suburbs and spent summers in the
Catskill Mountains. When she was
six her father wrote and
published a book on
constitutional law, and Pfeffer
decided that she, too, wanted to
be a writer. That year she wrote
her first story, about the love
between an Oreo cookie and a
pair of scissors. However, it
wasn't until 1970 that her first
book,
Just Morgan, was
published. She wrote it during
her last semester at New York
University; since then, she has...
