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How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
from Wendy Lamb Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Forever in my mind
  I picked up this book out of pure curiosity and I never imagined I'd be taken on such a beautiful ride. Daisy the main character is both relatable and at the same time completely unbelievable. But her spirit and the fight in her makes the book an amazing read. As for Edmond Daisy's cousin and ultimately the love of her life, the love he shows her which is unconditional holds them together through out all the tragedies in the story. That same love the share in that brief period together burns through the... more info

• Great read...fantastic.
  This is a great story...hard to put down. I'm not an advocate of censoring children's reading so I don't have a problem with kids reading this. Parents can discuss painful issues with their kids by reading what their kids are reading. I recommend this to kids and adults. Great author.

• Ambitious novel. Winner of 3 Awards, and yet lacks some finishing touches
  Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2004, the Michael L. Printz Award 2005, and the Brandford Boase Award 2005. It's an original and ambitious novel, portraying the horrors of 21st-century warfare for a generation of young readers who, whilst constantly hearing about wars, mostly feel quite removed from the experience. On this level, it succeeds really well. It's an eye-opener to see the Western world depicted as a war zone, with all the horrors of modern warfare brought vividly to life for... more info

• An Amazing Read
  This is one of my favourite books, and I've read it many times. It is the story of fifteen-year-old Daisy, an American who is sent to live with her British aunt and cousins in England. Her aunt, however, soon must leave Daisy and her cousins at her home, and due to the fictional war that is breaking out in England, she cannot return.
  At first, the cousins enjoy their unsupervised time together, and a romance develops between Daisy and her fourteen-year-old cousin Edmond. Daisy feels accepted for the... more info

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