book report 1

I read a book called How I Live Now. It was a great book about a girl who stays with her cousins in London while a war is going on.

The book is about a girl (like i said before) named Elizabeth but everyone calls her Daisy, she is 15. She has four cousins their names are: Edmond who is 14, his twin brother Isaac, Piper who is 9, and Osbert who is 16. their mothers name is Aunt Penn.

Daisy lives in New York with her father, her step mother and her almost half sister who is not born yet. Daisy and her best friend, Leah, have a great disliking for Davina, her step mother. Her mom died giving birth to her. Her father sends her to live with her cousins for the summer. In London with her cousins she realizes the peaceful and natural way her cousins live, they spend lots of time talking and hanging out and Daisy and Edmond get a little two close and slip right into an affair. So they live there lives at the farm while strange things happen because of the war like not being able to go to town, the airport being bombed, and most importantly their house being taken over by the military and them getting separated and having to live with people they don’t know. The books perspective is of Daisy so when they do get separated we only here Daisy and Pipers story. The house that their living at gets invaded and they have to run away to a barn then that place gets invaded and Piper and Daisy escape on there own with a map and a location and lots and lots of miles of flat land. So they walk and walk and finally arrive at their destination which is were Edmond and Isaac were staying but that place was also invaded and they’re not there. Then Piper and Daisy decide to go back to the house.

This part in the book is where it gets confusing. There’s a pause in the book and it jumps forward to Daisy living back with her dad. What happened was her father sent people searching for her and against her will sent her on a plane back to New York. Then, a couple years later, she goes back to England to see her cousins again and has to explain to Edmond that she didn’t leave him on purpose and she was forced to go back home. If your wondering what happened to Edmond and Isaac well when the place they were staying at got invaded they escaped and went back to the house and coincidentally they arrived at the house only one day after Daisy went back to New York. The reason they took longer to get to the house was because Edmond wouldn’t leave the other people to die he couldn’t so Isaac had to leave him and he went back to the house and waited but Edmond never showed up so Isaac had to go look for him. By the time he found him all most dead from starvation Piper and Daisy had made it to the house. If your wondering what happened to Osbert all this time, well he got a job in the military and got separated so he finally went home.

Daisy
she is 15
she’s independent
kind and neat
knows who she is and what she wants (not confused about her self/life)
her cousins see her as a kind/sweet girl who knows how to fit in and be who she is


Edmond
he is 14
he’s strong at heart
not afraid to say what he wants but goes with the flow (like the others)
independent but isn’t all over the place and not an outsider
his siblings see him as a kind brother and friend and leader if without osbert but good leader not bossy
daisy sees him as a guy who’s independent but friendly and kind she sees him as a guy she loves but who’s also like a brother

Piper
she is 9
she is a really sweet kind ball of energy
she’s responsible
she’s cute
she’s a happy bouncy little girl who manages things well
her brothers see her as there cute little sweet sister who is also like a best friend but who is very responsible and takes charge especially in the kitchen
daisy sees her as the little sister she never had she takes care of her and respects her

Important issue
At the end of the book it talks about when there older and what happened when Daisy goes home. I think this is one of the most important parts because it explains details on things that happened to other characters like the fact that aunt penn, when she went to Norway, got killed when she tried to get on to a plane back to England. It also talks about what happens to Daisy and Edmond. And explains the place and life in which Daisy belongs.