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Title: Apocalypse for Juniors
Review: When I read this in middle school, it was hard not be caught up in the story. My generation never got "Robinson Crusoe", "Tom Sawyer" or "Treasure Island" so this was the closest I got to the adventure novel. There are certain leaps of logic that need to be taken -- where are all the bodies of the adults, for instance, and what about late bloomers and early developers? -- but I remember it as a generally well-rendered if optimistic vision of what happens after the world has ended. As each generation passes on less and less practical knowledge to the next, it's a fitting to wonder what children would be able to reconstruct from the hollow remains of their parents' world and what they would not. I'm the only one of my friends who was raised to build furniture and use power tools. How many kids know what's under the hood of a tractor or an engine? Lisa, the protagonist, becomes an embodiment of the seldom-realized American ideal of self-reliance.
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