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I am so grateful that someone let Susan Beth Pfeffer in on the \u201csecret definition of trilogy\u201d [as Scott Westerfeld put it when he wrote the dedication for Extras<\/em>].\u00a0 I was not OK with leaving the Moon Crash Trilogy<\/em> as it ended in This World We Live In<\/em>\u2026\u00a0 I needed to know what happened next!\u00a0 Luckily, Susan Beth Pfeffer listened to her fans and kept writing even when her publisher wasn\u2019t [initially] interested in a fourth Moon Crash<\/em> book.<\/p>\n Miranda\u2019s younger brother, Jon, is now 16 years old.\u00a0 As the baby of the family, he has gotten used to a life of relative privilege.\u00a0 Even when food was extremely scarce, people made sure he was fed.\u00a0 When work needed to be done, others worked harder so he didn\u2019t have to.\u00a0 And when Alex had only 3 slips to get into an enclave \u2014 which would provide more safety, food, and educational opportunities for the people within \u2014 everyone agreed that those slips should go to Jon, his stepmother, Lisa, and her baby, Gabe.\u00a0 Many clavers got in simply because of the money and power they had before the moon crash, so Jon\u2019s so-called friends often remind him that he\u2019s a \u201cslip\u201d and could be kicked out if he doesn\u2019t play along\/act the part of a claver well enough.\u00a0 Since his \u201cjob\u201d is playing soccer and his status as a claver gets him as much food, booze, and trouble-free mischief as he wants, though, Jon is often all too happy to play along.<\/p>\n People in White Birch, including some of Jon\u2019s own family members [Miranda, Alex, and his mom], are known as grubs and often work for clavers in the capacity of domestic servants, drivers, and greenhouse workers.\u00a0 I was extremely uncomfortable with Jon\u2019s hateful attitude toward grubs and how cavalierly he acted despite his family\u2019s position, but I could see how easily a teenager might dissociate for the sake of fitting in and surviving in such a harsh reality.\u00a0 As much as I hated Jon and the things he did, it made all too much sense that a spoiled kid raised in a post-apocalyptic world would turn out this way.\u00a0 Luckily, Jon experienced some decent character development and the ending left me feeling like there was hope for Jon and his family\u2026 and maybe even a fifth Moon Crash<\/em> book!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am so grateful that someone let Susan Beth Pfeffer in on the \u201csecret definition of trilogy\u201d [as Scott Westerfeld put it when he wrote the dedication for Extras].\u00a0 I was not OK with leaving the Moon Crash Trilogy as it ended in This World We Live In\u2026\u00a0 I needed to know what happened next!\u00a0 … Continue reading Shade of the Moon by Susan Beth Pfeffer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}