Julia, 12 years old, is living in a world where the days are becoming increasingly longer due to the Earth's rotation slowing down. Scientists are completely baffled, and people choose different ways to deal with the crisis. Amidst all of the change, Julia also has to navigate normal 12 year old problems, such as parental infidelity, her first crush, and mean kids at school.

Age of Miracles made this slowing of the Earth seem so believable. Thompson Walker never tries to explain WHY, but inestead focuses on the consequences (changing gravity, mass extinctions, food supplies dwindling, skin cancer, etc). After the complete failure of modern science to figure out how to stop an oil spill, her premise that scientists in her book could also not figure out how to 'fix' this problem seems ever more real. Also, as I'm growing tired of post-apopalyptic fiction that seems to fixate on huge disasters (zombies, war, etc) the notion that the world could descend into chaos from such a slow crisis was very refreshing. It was also nice to see this through a young girl's eyes.

Highly recommend!