The World Ends in April

 Eleanor Dross loves her grandfather, but she's just not into his prepper lifestyle and the surprise drills he likes to pull on her and her younger brothers.  Of course, he has to do the drills when her dad isn't around because he does not approve.  After one of these annoying and embarrassing drills, she decides to go online to try to prove Grandpa Joe is overreacting.

What she finds instead is the website of a Harvard professor claiming an asteroid is headed to earth in just a few months.  Can this possibly be true?  All the research seems to be there, and it all looks legit.  Instead of proving her grandfather wrong, Eleanor has found new evidence that she should be prepping for a major disaster! 

She and her best friend Mack decide to start an End of the World Club at school, disguised as a nature club.  Eleanor wants to keep things small, but Mack keeps telling more people about it including her nemesis, Londyn.  Londyn has been torturing Eleanor since elementary school, and now she's part of the club.  Eleanor is taking this very seriously, and Londyn just seems to be a thorn in her side.  

Mack is also considering attending a school for the blind.  He's not just Eleanor's best friend, he's her only friend.  How is she supposed to handle life without him?  What if he's away at this new school when the asteroid hits?  

As April draws closer, Eleanor's anxiety ratchets up.  No one is really taking this as seriously as she and Grandpa Joe are.  How is she supposed to keep the people she loves safe when they won't listen?

Stacy McAnulty's new book isn't about a global pandemic, but it is about disaster-related anxiety.  This may be triggering for some people.  While it is interesting and stressful to watch Eleanor's descent into a complete anxiety meltdown, I'm not quite sure it makes sense from the emotional perspective the author was leaning toward.  She is trying to hint that this disaster anxiety is tied to the possibility of Mack moving away which I could buy if she had previous anxiety issues, but I'm not quite sure it works here.  Nice plug for credible sources, though!  Also, Grandpa Joe is kind of the worst.  His son told him to cut out the prepper stuff, and it's pretty obvious Eleanor was not doing well, but he just kept feeding into her anxiety.  I would recommend this one with the warning that it could trigger anxiety.