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Title	:	How I Live Now
Author	:	Meg Rosoff
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 194 pages
Published	:	November 30th 2004 by Wendy Lamb Books (first published August 24th 2004)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Romance

How I Live Now

Meg Rosoff

Paperback | Pages: 194 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 37890 Users | 4632 Reviews

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"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.

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Original Title:	How I Live Now
ISBN:	0553376055 (ISBN13: 9780553376050)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Margaret 'Daisy' Dakin, "Isaac", Edmond, Piper
Setting:	United Kingdom
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for New Writers (2005), Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (2004), Michael L. Printz Award (2005), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Jugendbuch (2006), Branford Boase Award (2005) Boston Author's Club Young Reader Award (2005), North East Teenage Book Award Nominee (2005), Bronzener Lufti (2006)

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In all fairness, I had plenty of warning. I'd read Tatiana's review so I should have been well prepared.Conventional wisdom states that when cousins get freaky, you're likely to end up with something like this:[image error]No! No! Noooooooooooooooooo!But nobody told Daisy and Edmond that. Nothing says true love like boinking your underage, nicotine addicted, telepathic first cousin while a war is going on.This book was infinitely better when Daisy and Edmond weren't doing things against all the

Well, it's official - I am a total sucker for a stream-of-consciousness style narration.The writing was very wistful and if it was any more flowing, I would certainly have slipped and face-planted half way through this!You know how from time to time a book comes along that you're positive you won't forget about it anytime soon but can't really explain exactly WHY? That's how I feel about How I Live Now and these precious kids.Charming surrounding, extraordinarily charming characters (ohmigod

YA. This is almost one of those staples of children's literature where the unwanted child gets sent off to live with strange relatives in the English countryside, then the cousins all have precious adventures together and learn a little something about family. It's almost like that, except a war breaks out and their precious adventures turn into gritty survivalism instead. Even in the middle of rations and artillery, our narrator has a kind of implicit eating disorder, and I still can't tell if

how i live now has been called a modern-day Jane Eyre which I can dig, had Brontes novel been set during a terrorist occupation and featured incestuous teenage romance. (St John Rivers doesn't count.) Fleeing a disinterested father, a wicked stepmother, and an eating disorder, 15-year-old Daisy moves to England to live with her cousins on a farm. Their idyllic adventures are interrupted by a war with an unnamed, unseen enemy, and the children are forced to go on the run as food, water, and

This book took a while to get into, but once you get used to the writing style it's really captivating and wonderful.

At first I was hesitant to put this book in my CLW line up because it is not, actually, a book I love. However, after giving the matter some thought I've decided that even though I don't adore it, this novel does fit my basic "chick lit" guideline (strong female character in a book written by a female author) so it gets to stay."How I Live Now" is Meg Rosoff's first novel. It is a Printz Award winner (an award for excellence in young adult literature), the Branford Boase Award for a first novel,

YA. This is almost one of those staples of children's literature where the unwanted child gets sent off to live with strange relatives in the English countryside, then the cousins all have precious adventures together and learn a little something about family. It's almost like that, except a war breaks out and their precious adventures turn into gritty survivalism instead. Even in the middle of rations and artillery, our narrator has a kind of implicit eating disorder, and I still can't tell if