The day the world went away

by Anne Schraff

Book Overview

Thirteen teen-agers experience a period of terror when their school is mysteriously closed, their parents disappear, and a gang of youths plans to build a new world for losers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385004559
• ISBN13: 9780385004558
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Entertaining little book

I read this book in 7th grade, and I still have it, I checked it out of the reading lab, and must have "forgotton" to return it (sorry Mrs. Erdman). It's a slight story, but I remember the imagery of the students walking around the deserted high school really got my imagination going back then.

an excellent, chilling read

Simply stated, this book is excellent. i read this first as a small boy in the late eighites and have serched for it ever since. i found it again only once, in high school a good 10 years later, and found none of the books terrifying potency diminished over the course fo time, perhaps because it speaks so clearly to one of my greatest personal fears (and that of so many others): the fear of being completly, utterly and inexplicably alone. After all, what WOULD you do fi you got up and found everyone you knew ahd simply vanished overnight, leaving no trace whatsoever? The stories protagonists, a group of high school teens, are forced to face just this delimma, and the seemingly preposterous, and yet horrifying possibility that they are indeed the last people left alive.

Remembered for over 20 years!

I read this book in 1973, and it has stuck in my memory for over 20 years. This is an intriguing book about a subject that, at the time, filled my heart with terror: Students arrive at school one morning to find that teachers and staff have disappeared. They embark on a search that reveals that everyone in their entire town is gone. I highly recommend this book. I think it would be most entertaining for 11 - 15 year-olds.