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Every now and then a person needs a good disaster movie or book. Don't know why but I think it might be watching how predictable those in charge cause even more problems and how the human spirit can rise to the occasion in spite of everything. Oh...this one doesn't even have zombies:) I loved that the people facing this particular disaster stayed calm and mostly rational in the face of the crises and how the mother tries to get her family prepared as she fiercely tries to protect them. As the world becomes more isolated because of the lack of working communication devices...no cell phones folks... the daughter keeps her diary going recording her thoughts and feelings. It's through her communications with herself that we learn the story of life after the meteor hit the moon and causes tidal waves, earthquakes, volcanos and more. At first they think that the government will help...(Oh yeah like that's going to happen!)…and all will settle down and life will go back to normal. Eventually they begin to realize that nothing in their life may ever be normal again and things more than likely are going to get a whole lot worse. The global mess becomes much more personal to them as this young girl and her brothers try to adjust from proms, football games and homework, to washing the laundry by hand and staving off hunger. It's a YA book designed for 12 years and older... so just how dark and bad it could and would get if this actually happened was really down played...but it was fun seeing this young girl deal with her life changing perhaps forever.