# How I Live Now

**Author:** Meg Rosoff
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2005
**Page count:** 153
**ISBN-13:** `9780141925080`
**ISBN-10:** `0141925086`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/how-i-live-now
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff, now a film tie-in edition to celebrate the release of the major film starring Saoirse Ronan. How 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. 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

## Where this book is assigned

### Michael L. Printz Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2005 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2005 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2005 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2005 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)

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