Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer

Life As We Knew It is about what happens when a meteor crashes into the moon. Yes, it sounds quite boring/uninteresting but it really is quite cool. When the moon gets hit it moves closer and closer to the earth, disrupting the waves of the seas, causing natural disasters, etc. This is like the end of the world; lots of people are dying from natural disasters and the effects of no electricity.
Life is hard to survive in when mother nature is not in a good mood.

Age Group: 12+ - teens

Star Rating: 8.5/10


Apparently they are now making this a series called The Last Survivors. They have now 3 books in the series, Life As We Knew It, The Dead and The Gone, and This World We Live In.

Tomorrow Series by John Marsden

Tomorrow When the War Began is the first out of the seven books in the Tomorrow Series. In this book, the main characters go camping over a weekend in the bush, with no adults to accompany them. When they come back from their camp they notice that there was nobody left in the houses and they were all quiet; some houses had been broken in and ravaged through. The night before they had left to go back to the city was the night they had seen planes in many formations go by. This was the beginning of something big, something that would change their lives forever.

Age group: Teens/12+

Star Rating: 8/10

Warning: This book contains violence and death scenes.