How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
New York, N.Y. : Wendy Lamb Books, c2004.
A shockingly fresh and engaging book, ‘How I Live Now’ focuses on Daisy, a cool Manhattinite sent to stay with her English cousins in the countryside in the near future. She falls instantly and deeply in love with her cousins (each of them in slightly different ways). Shortly after her arrival, war breaks out, and with her cousins, she is forced to try and live through it. Taught, passionate, full and luminous, this is a modern classic.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
May the odds be ever in your favour
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
15 year-old Katniss has grown up
in a brutally poor district in the rigidly totalitarian Panem, a dystopian USA. When
she volunteers in place of her sister to participate in the almost certainly
fatal “Hunger Games’, she makes what might be the ultimate sacrifice for those
she loves. Fortunately for Katniss, she is unimpeachably tough and has
phenomenal skills with a bow and arrow. She’s a calm, cool heroine for her
times.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
Fast-paced and unrelentingly
tense, this book (and the two that follow in the trilogy) will keep you reading
far into the night.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Home is the hunter, home from the hill, and the sailor home from the sea.
Homecoming by Cynthia Voight
New York : Atheneum, c1981
At thirteen years-old, Dicey is old enough to see that there is something wrong with her mother. Poverty and hardship have chipped away at her sanity. Her worst fears are confirmed when, en route to visit an aunt they've never met, her mother leaves her and three siblings in a car while she goes to the supermarket, and they don’t see her again. Armed with almost no money, but steely inner strength, a sharp mind and a glimmer of hope, Dicey must do what seems impossible to keep her family together and walks them across America, into the unknown.
New York : Atheneum, c1981
At thirteen years-old, Dicey is old enough to see that there is something wrong with her mother. Poverty and hardship have chipped away at her sanity. Her worst fears are confirmed when, en route to visit an aunt they've never met, her mother leaves her and three siblings in a car while she goes to the supermarket, and they don’t see her again. Armed with almost no money, but steely inner strength, a sharp mind and a glimmer of hope, Dicey must do what seems impossible to keep her family together and walks them across America, into the unknown.
Set in the early eighties, this book reads well as a stand-alone
novel but was extended into a cycle of
seven books for those who
wish to keep reading.
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