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How I Live Now: Popular Penguins

By Meg Rosoff
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How I Live Now: Popular Penguins by Meg Rosoff is a compelling young adult novel that follows a fifteen-year-old girl named Daisy, who travels to England to stay with her cousins. As she adjusts to their unconventional lifestyle, an unexpected war breaks out, setting in motion a journey of survival, resilience, and self-discovery. The story explores themes of love, family, and the struggle to find one's place in a tumultuous world.
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You might enjoy this book if you're captivated by stories of resilience and survival in extraordinary circumstances. It immerses you in the world of a strong-willed girl navigating a war-torn existence, exploring themes of love, identity, and coming-of-age in a compelling narrative style that resonates with young adult readers.

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How I Live Now: Popular Penguins

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Fifteen-year-old New Yorker 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?

How I Live Now is a tale of self-discovery, survival, and the transformative power of love, even when the world around you is falling apart.

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How I Live Now: Popular Penguins by Meg Rosoff has been widely praised for its unique narrative voice and gripping storyline. Reviewers often highlight the book’s intense and immersive depiction of war through the eyes of a young protagonist, with its blend of realism and lyrical prose earning particular acclaim. Rosoff’s exploration of survival, love, and adolescence in a dystopian setting resonates well with readers, marking it as a standout in the young adult genre.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141045474

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 June 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 179.0mm

Weight: 100g

Pages: 228

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Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Meg Rosoff Penguin Books Young Adult

About the Author

Meg was born in Boston, USA but now lives in Highbury, London with her husband, the painter Paul Hamlyn, and their daughter Gloria. How I Live Now was Meg Rosoff's debut novel, which won the Guardian and Branford Boase Awards and was short-listed for the Orange Prize for New Fiction as well as the Whitbread. It garnered the sort of rave acclaim most writers only ever dream of. Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, championed it right from the beginning, saying, 'That rare, rare thing, a first novel with a sustained, magical and utterly faultless voice. After five pages I knew that she could persuade me to believe almost anything.' Since How I Live Now, Meg has gone on to write several award-winning books for teenagers including Just in Case, What I Was and The Bride's Farewell. She has also written Jumpy Jack and Googily, Meet Wild Boars and Wild Boars Cook for very young children and a special pocket money Puffin called Vamoose! Visit Meg's website at www.megrosoff.co.uk. Keep up to date and visit Meg's blog.

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