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1	[[quoteright:192:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/armsummer_3806.PNG]]
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3	A collaborative YoungAdult novel by Creator/BruceCoville and Creator/JaneYolen written in 1998.
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5	Two teenagers, Jed and Marina, have little in common beside the fact that their parents have joined a {{cult}} that believes that the world is about to end on July 27, 2000. All the families in this cult (called The Believers) have made a camp at the top of a mountain to wait out the Apocalypse.
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7	There are, of course, problems. First, the apparent apocalypse is on Marina's birthday. The camp closed off after a certain number of people come in, leaving Believers who didn't get in to desperately protest outside the gates alongside non-Believer family members concerned about those who ''did'' make it in. And (of course) Jed and Marina are starting to fall in love.
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9	!! This novel provides examples of:
10	* AbusiveParents: Marina's mom becomes a lot worse to her kids after they get to the mountain. [[spoiler:This seems to be a result of her getting caught up in the whole religious craze, and she gets better in the epilogue.]]
11	* AdamAndEvePlot: [[spoiler: Reverend Beelson hopes to do this. He even calls the women "Eves."]]
12	* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Reverend Beelson is portrayed in a rather sympathetic light. Jed is surprised to see, when he talks to him, that Beelson genuinely cares for all of his followers even if his methods are quite questionable.]]
13	* AsTheGoodBookSays: Reverend Beelson does this several times, and Marina does it to.
14	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The apocalypse doesn't happen. Jed and Marina live. But a riot ensues the day of the supposed apocalypse, which kills the reverend and Jed's dad.]]
15	* CrisisOfFaith: [[spoiler: Both religious Marina and nonreligious Jed go through one. In the end, Marina finds herself losing her religion, while Jed finds himself becoming more religious.]]
16	* {{Cult}}: Jed and Marina's parents join one.
17	* CultColony: The Believers make an isolated mountain camp to live in during Armageddon.
18	* GodIsGood[=/=]GodIsEvil: Not surprisingly, the characters bring up a lot of metaphysical questions related to this answer.
19	* HeavenSeeker: The Believers.
20	* HotForPreacher: Marina's mother is implied to be this.
21	* NoodleIncident: We never ''do'' find out what happened to the Reverend in those three years he disappeared.
22	* SinisterMinister: Reverend Beelson. [[spoiler: But it's averted in person, when Jed talks to him. He doesn't appear to be a ''bad'' person, just a horrifyingly misguided one. He's quite calm about the possibility that he may be wrong, and even seems to hope that he is.]]
23	* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Written in 1998 and set in 2000.
24	* TruthInTelevision: For those of you not old enough to remember, there was quite a large scare about computer bugs and the way computers store dates in the years directly preceding 2000.
25	* TurnOfTheMillennium: Set in this time period.

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