THE DEAD & THE GONE
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Harcourt Children’s Books
Fiction
ISBN: 9780152063115
336 pages

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Susan Beth Pfeffer’s LIFE AS WE KNEW IT enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event --- an asteroidhitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. THE DEAD AND THE GONE, the harrowing companion novel to LIFE AS WE KNEW IT, examines the same events as theyunfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Alex Morales. When Alex’s parents disappear in the aftermath of tidal waves, he must care for his two younger sisters, even as Manhattan becomes a deadly wasteland, and food and aid dwindle.

With haunting themes of family, faith, personal change, and courage, this powerful new novel explores how a young man takes on unimaginable responsibilities in a heart-pounding struggle for survival.

THE DEAD & THE GONE © Copyright 2008 by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Reprinted with permission by Harcourt Children’s Books. All rights reserved.

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