How I Live Now, (Paperback)

from sandpiper

Meg arrives from the States to stay with her cousins and her aunt in England. They live an idyllic life on a farm in the countryside, with animals, a veg garden, a river in which to swim and catch fish. Aunt Penn leaves for a few days to present a lecture in Oslo, and the children have the farm t...

from baachan

In Meg Rosoff's novel, an American teen named Daisy is sent to England to live with her aunt and cousins when her stepmother is about to give birth. Her aunt leaves on a business trip to Oslo and a war breaks out, leaving Daisy and her cousins stranded without any adults in their lives. They surv...

from miyurose

This YA story of children left to fend for themselves after the outbreak of a war has a distinct post-apocalyptic feel to it. I think this is mostly due to the rural countryside setting, lack of adults, and the "faceless" enemy. You never find out what really happens here other than The Occupatio...

from meganDB

Reading this book is like drinking a tall glass of water as quickly as you can, in great huge gulps. That slight out of breathness that accompanies downing a drink is one go was with me for all of this after, after every few paragraphs I kept I feeling I had to stop and catch my breath. It's Roso...

from quondame

A compact tale of a displaced US teen's route through a war in England with cousins. She finds home and family only to be scattered across a torn landscape. Well told, but too much a deliberate tear-jerker for my taste.