num_pages: 194
description: "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.
language: English
title: How I Live Now
titlecomplete: How I Live Now
characters: "Isaac", Margaret 'Daisy' Dakin, Edmond, Piper
genres: Teen, Survival, Dystopia, Young Adult, War, Post Apocalyptic, Romance, Audiobook, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 44772
places: United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Orange Prize
category: New Writers, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Michael L. Printz Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Jugendbuch, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Branford Boase Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Boston Author's Club Young Reader Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: North East Teenage Book Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Bronzener Lufti
publisher: Wendy Lamb Books