by
Meg Rosoff (Goodreads Author)
“Every war has turning points and every person too.”
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy.
As power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated. Despite the war, it’s a kind of Eden, with no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy’s uncanny bond with her cousins grows into something rare and extraordinary. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest, most elemental way.
A riveting and astonishing story.
Paperback, 194 pages
Published
November 30th 2004
by Wendy Lamb Books
(first published January 1st 2004)
original title
How I Live Now
ISBN
0553376055
(ISBN13: 9780553376050)
edition language
English
setting
literary awards
Orange Prize Nominee for New Writers (2005), Michael L. Printz Award (2005), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Jugendbuch (2006), Branford Boase Award (2005), Boston Author's Club Young Reader Award (2005)
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