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~ Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize - 2004, Michael L. Printz Award - 2005, Branford Boase Award - 2005, Boston Author's Club Young Reader Award - 2005
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan, New York to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met. Unfortunately her aunt must go away on business soon after Daisy arrives, and the very next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy . . .
A riveting and astonishing story of survival, How I Live Now illustrates how people can change when faced with hardship and the determination inherent in human nature that drives people to survive even in the face of hopelessness.
"How I Live Now paints a frighteningly realistic picture of a world war breaking out in the 21st century. Readers will emerge from the rubble much shaken, a little wiser, and with perhaps a greater sense of humanity." -- Publishers Weekly