Susan Beth Pfeffer

1 series 3 books in order

Award-winning author Susan Beth Pfeffer, has written over sixty books for children and young adults. She began her career in 1970, with the publication of her first book, Just Morgan, which she wrote her last semester at New York University. Ms. Pfeffer's books include middle-grade novels (The Pizza Puzzle), historical fiction (Nobody's Daughter and its companion volume Justice for Emily), and young adult novels (Family of Strangers and Twice Taken). 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. Susan Beth Pfeffer is also the author of the popular Portraits of Little Women series. Created for readers grades 3-6, each of the books in the series captures one of the beloved March sisters from Little Women--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--at age 10. These unforgettable heroines experience the joys and sorrows of sisterhood, family life, and a changing America.

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Last Survivors

Series by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Last Survivors

3 books in order · 2006–2010

  1. Cover of Life as we Knew It

    Life as we Knew It

    2006 · Susan Beth Pfeffer

    When Miranda first hears the warnings that a meteor is headed on a collision path with the moon, they just sound like an excuse for extra homework…

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  2. Cover of The Dead and the Gone

    The Dead and the Gone

    2008 · Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated listeners with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event--an asteroid…

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  3. Cover of This World We Live In

    This World We Live In

    2010 · Susan Beth Pfeffer

    The heart-wrenching companion to the bestselling novels Life As We Knew It and The Dead & The Gone. It’s been a year since a meteor collided with the…

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