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	Landis, Matthew. IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS I KNOW IT New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2019. IL 5-8 ISBN 9780735228016
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	If you have ever been afraid that the end of the world is coming, then you will understand how Derrick feels. Derrick is so convinced the end of the world is coming that he is building a shelter in his yard. He thinks he has things under control but then Misty, the girl that lives next door, insists on helping. Then his friend Tommy begs him to keep his pet snake in the shelter too. Though Derrick is wary of the snake he agrees. Then disaster strikes... and it wasn’t anything like Derrick expected. (Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards, 2021)
	SUBJECTS:   Grief -- Fiction.                         Friendship -- Fiction.                         Air raid shelters -- Fiction.

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