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Walker, Karen Thompson. The Age of Miracles. New York: Random House, 2012. Print. ISBN: 978-0-8129-9297-7; hardcover, $26.00.
Annotation: In a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, 11-year-old Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow
Gracie B. “This book was a really quick
read. I read it on vacation with my family and couldn’t put it
down. After finishing, I couldn’t help but think about the world and the
fragility of the environmental a little differently. I saw on IMDB and
several blogs I follow that a movie is in development with the same director as
Twilight. I hope they do a good job of adapting the supernatural
and normal teenage life elements of the story to the big screen.”
Book Awards
- New York Times Best Seller
Book Talk: On October 6, the news became official. A day on Earth had grown 56 minutes longer as the Earth had begun to slow. For 11-year-old Julia and her parents, the consequences of this slowing were not clear at first but would eventually began to show.
"Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown."
In The Age of Miracles, find out exactly how the slowing of the Earth will impact the lives of all those who live on it.
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