This World We Live InI love both LIFE AS WE KNEW IT and THE DEAD AND THE GONE, so you can only imagine how excited I got today when a student told me about the third book in the Moon series. I totally lost track of the progression of this series and I’m happy to be immersed in the world all over again. I’ve been booktalking both LAWKI and TDATG this week during library orientations and they are grabbed up just as soon as I’m done. I can’t wait for THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN to be released. April 2010 is entirely too long to wait!

Here is the synopsis from Goodreads:

It’s been over a month since Miranda Evans has written in her diary, a month of relative calm for her and her family. It’s springtime, and with warmer weather comes rain, and the melting of the winter’s snow. The shad are running in a nearby river, and Miranda’s brothers Matt and Jon leave home for a few days to see if they can catch some to supplement their food supply.

When they return, Matt brings with him a girl named Syl, who he introduces as his bride. But that’s not the only shock Miranda and her family have to deal with. A few weeks later, Miranda’s father, stepmother, and baby brother show up at her door. Accompanying them are three strangers, a man named Charlie Rutherford, and two teenagers, Alex and Julie Morales. These five people have crossed America together, becoming, in their own way, a family.

Miranda’s complicated feelings about Alex, curiosity, resentment, longing, and passion turn into love. Alex’s feelings are equally complex. His plans to escort Julie to a convent where she can be taken care of, so that he will be free to enter a monastery, are destined for failure. He wants desperately to live up to his moral code, but his desire for Miranda is too strong. He proposes to Miranda that they take Julie and go to a safe town.

But before Miranda and Alex can go off together, a devastating tornado hits the town of Howell, and in its aftermath, Miranda makes a decision that will change forever her life and Alex’s, and the world that they live in will never be the same.

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