The Age of Miracles is an astounding debut that makes you believe that you are involved in the story. The book is about when the earth's rotation slows down. When the length of a day reaches 40 hours, the temperatures rise and fall, birds are falling out of the sky and gravity has increased, and Julia has to decide what is right.
Continuing on with life as if nothing has happened, her life falls apart. Her friends desert her, her father is having an affair with her piano teacher, her mother has the dreaded disease and the real timers are rebelling.
This book is about betrayal, love, friendship and destiny. It is about poems, stars, parties and animals. The age of miracles is the perfect book to sink your teeth into because it seems so realistic. I would recommend it for the ages of eleven to even adult, because it is not written in a childish manner.
The Age of Miracles' story hit me like a bulldozer.
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