Susan Beth Pfeffer
Författare till Life as We Knew It
Om författaren
Susan Beth Pfeffer was born in New York City in 1948, and grew up in the city and its nearby suburbs. At the age of six, when her father wrote and published a book, Pfeffer decided she, too, wanted to be a writer; that year, she wrote her first story. She didn't write her first published book, visa mer until much later. Just Morgan, a young adult novel, was written during her final semester at New York University, and published the following year. Since then, Pfeffer has been a full-time writer for young people. She has won numerous awards and citations for her work, which ranges from picture books to middle-grade and young-adult novels and includes both contemporary and historical fiction. Her young adult novel About David was awarded the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award. Her young adult novel The Year Without Michael, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and winner of the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award, was named by the American Library Association as one of the hundred best books for teenagers written between 1968-1993. Pfeffer has also written a book for adults on writing for children. She has written over 60 books for children and young adults. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Serier
Verk av Susan Beth Pfeffer
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3) 2 exemplar
Spurred Ambition 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 316 exemplar
Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 161 exemplar
With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 53 exemplar
From One Experience to Another: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 42 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Pfeffer, Susan Beth
- Födelsedag
- 1948-02-17
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- New York, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- New York University
- Yrken
- writer of children's and young adult fiction
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
Do I need to read Life as We Knew It before I read The Dead And The Gone? i Read YA Lit (juni 2012)
Recensioner
I stayed up until two this morning to finish this book, and then I couldn’t sleep thinking about what would really happen if the moon was knocked out of its orbit by an asteroid. Would tidal waves (not tsunamis, they’re caused by seaquakes) really get big enough to wash out the Hawaiian Islands and West Coast? Would I, a single person with little or no resources, be a survivor? Would it bring out the worst in humanity? By far, this is the most depressing YA book I have read yet.
The premise was interesting, and carried me through the end of the book. But the protagonist didn't seem to really struggle with anything that was happening to her. Every time some obstacle appeared in her life, it was resolved with no glitches or lasting complications. There was no hamartia or irony or twist to make the narrator's relationship with the global collapse interesting beyond the snooze inducing "anyone would be upset if this was happening to the planet" (except, is she even upset?)
A set of dangerous diseases somehow traverses the Atlantic ocean without any human travel. The protagonist learns about the danger, does the teenager thing of saying that she'll be fine and disregards the new rules that are meant to keep her alive. I expect consequences for that kind of decision making.
Without repercussions for bad choices, a post-apocalyptic story can take on the air of text in a cereal box puzzle.… (mer)
A set of dangerous diseases somehow traverses the Atlantic ocean without any human travel. The protagonist learns about the danger, does the teenager thing of saying that she'll be fine and disregards the new rules that are meant to keep her alive. I expect consequences for that kind of decision making.
Without repercussions for bad choices, a post-apocalyptic story can take on the air of text in a cereal box puzzle.… (mer)
In this book the some people can never live a new place and whether change because they never survive and they dead.
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- Verk
- 84
- Även av
- 8
- Medlemmar
- 12,758
- Popularitet
- #1,838
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 760
- ISBN
- 326
- Språk
- 3
- Favoritmärkt
- 12
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