Miranda’s friends either leave their Pennsylvania town, hoping to find things better by heading south, or begin to die of starvation. Electricity is nonexistent, crops die and insect-born diseases spread. Dense clouds of ash block the sun’s rays, and Earth is thrown into premature winter. When volcanoes erupt around the world, things go from bad to worse. She feels better about her life when her older brother, Matt, manages to return home from college to be with the family. Miranda believes her mom is overreacting, but she helps out however she can. As things continue to worsen, her mother stockpiles winter clothes, batteries, oil lamps and flats of vegetable plants. Their van is soon packed with canned foods, water bottles and toiletries. Nesbitt, tells them to buy everything they can at the grocery store. She pulls Miranda and her younger brother, Jonny, out of school the following day, and, along with their elderly neighbor, Mrs. Miranda’s mother goes into survival mode, recognizing quickly the need to stockpile not only food, but also basic necessities in case things get worse. Power is disrupted, phone and cell lines work only sporadically and the nation’s supply lines are in shambles. The increase in its gravitational pull causes massive tidal waves and tsunamis that decimate many of the world’s coastal cities. Sixteen-year-old Miranda finds her world thrown into chaos when an asteroid hits the moon and shifts it out of orbit, closer to Earth.
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