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HOW I LIVE NOW
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| By: |
Meg Rosoff |
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Paperback |
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£8.99 |
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£6.56 |
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£2.43 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0141318015 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780141318011 |
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Currently 109 available |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
30 June, 2005 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Fifteen-year-old Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. There she'll discover what real love is: something violent, mysterious and wonderful. |
| Synopsis: |
How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg RosoffHow I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy, the precocious New Yorker and her English cousin Edmond, torn apart as war breaks out in London, from the multi award-winning Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now has been adapted for the big screen by Kevin Macdonald, starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy and releases in 2013.Fifteen-year-old Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met.There she'll discover what real love is: something violent, mysterious and wonderful. There her world will be turned upside down and a perfect summer will explode into a million bewildering pieces.How will Daisy live then?'Fresh, honest, rude, funny. I put it down with tears on my face' - Julie Myerson, Guardian 'Assured, powerful, engaging . . . you will want to read everything that Rosoff is capable of writing' - Observer 'An unforgettable adventure' - Sunday TimesBestselling author Meg Rosoff has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her first novel How I Live Now (winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize). Her other novels, Just in Case (winner of the 2007 Carnegie Medal), The Bride's Farewell and What I Was which was described by The Times as 'Samuel Beckett on ecstasy', are also available from Puffin. Follow Meg on Twitter @megrosoff.Also by Meg Rosoff:How I Live Now; Just In Case; What I Was; The Bride's Farewell; There is No Dog |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Branford Boase Award 2005
Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2004
Short-listed for Booktrust Teenage Prize 2005
Short-listed for British Book Awards: Children's Book of the Year 2005
Short-listed for Orange Award for New Writers 2005
Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Children's Book Category 2004 |
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Book Level : 6.7
Interest Level : Upper Yrs
Points : 8
Quiz number : 207151
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