by Susan Beth Pfeffer
I'm not sure what it is about these books that I find so appealing. It's not like they're great works of literature. It's not like I don't see the flaws in the stories, because I do. It's just that I enjoy them way too much to not give them great reviews.
This is the same time frame as Miranda's story in Life As We Knew It, told from the perspective of a Puerto Rican boy living in New York City. Alex Morales has everything going for him--a great family, a scholarship to a Catholic private school, and good odds of getting into Georgetown for college. When an asteroid hits the moon, and his parents don't come home, he's left to care for his two sisters alone. Many of his struggles are the same as Miranda's were, but just because you know the volcanic ash is coming for Alex, you don't feel for him any less. Fascinating, terrifying, gut-wrenching, and heart-breaking, these books are like a train wreck--you just have to keep looking.
