How I Live Now
- 208
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- Michael L. Printz Award
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Our view
“How I Live Now” is an unusual, intense novel that sets a teenage love story against a war. Meg Rosoff writes in the voice of a fifteen-year-old narrator, and some readers value her view of the world and of her family. Others find that voice hard going in the opening chapters, or are unsettled by the romance at its centre. It is tender and bleak at once.
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About the book
How I Live Now is a novel by Meg Rosoff, first published in 2004. It received generally positive reviews and won the British Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the American Printz Award for young-adult literature.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.7 across 88 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 37% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 7 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 6.6 | 81 | 92% |
Frequently asked
What age is How I Live Now for?
How I Live Now sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 208 pages — shorter than 97% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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Same shelf — Young adult — with scores between 7.3 and 7.5, closest to this book.
