We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach, 370 pages
What would you do if there was a good chance that an asteroid was
on target to hit the Earth, probably with devastating results for the
population? This book explores what a
group of teens in Seattle do, based on the knowledge that they may only have a
couple of months to live. This story is
told from the perspective of four teens, Peter, Eliza, Andy, and Anita. Peter is the popular athlete, slated to go to
Stamford on a scholarship. Eliza is a
loner whose mother left for Hawaii and father is dying of cancer. Andy is a stoner wannabe rock star whose
parents don’t seem to care what he does.
Anita is brilliant but ruled by her parents’ wishes that she go to
Princeton and study something they see as lucrative, like medicine or business
and have tried to stamp out her dream to study music. These teens are completely different but end
up coming together after the news of the asteroid is released. I really liked this book although I was
disappointed in the ending, but not surprised.
Teens who like realistic fiction or apocalyptic novels may like this.
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