The Life As We Knew It Collection

Praise for LIFE AS WE KNEW IT An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A 2011 ALA Popular Paperbacks Title A CCBC Choice A Junior Library Guild Premier Selection A Listening Library Selection An Amazon.com Best Book of the Year * "Absorbing from first page to last." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Riveting and deeply frightening." --Bulletin "You will read it in one sitting, fighting back tears as you bite your nails." --Teenreads.com Praise for THE DEAD AND THE GONE * "As riveting as Life as We Knew It and even grittier. . . . The powerful images and wrenching tragedies will haunt readers." --Publishers Weekly, starred review * "Everything Pfeffer writes about seems wrenchingly plausible." --Booklist, starred review "Incredibly engaging." --Kirkus Reviews Praise for THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN * "The protagonists of Pfeffer's novels The Dead and the Gone and Life As We Knew It join forces in this third installment of a harrowing saga set in the not so distant future. . . . Throughout, readers will be moved by displays of compassion, strength, and faith as characters endure grim realities and face an uncertain future." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Palpable despair is dappled with tiny flares of hope in this third entry in Pfeffer's enthralling series. . . . Fans of the first two will thrill to this latest and the loose ending will leave them hoping for more." --Kirkus Reviews Praise for THE SHADE OF THE MOON "Action-packed and completely unpredictable, this latest will be widely anticipated by the series' many fans." --Kirkus Reviews "Pfeffer's well-written take on what life might be as it returns to 'normal' is sometimes brutal and always depressingly real." --Booklist --