How I Live Now: Meg Rosoff

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 an aunt and cousins she's never met - three boys near her age and their little sister. Not long after Daisy's arrival, her aunt goes to London on business and the next day, London is attacked, bombed and occupied by an unnamed enemy. As power and other systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated - a place where there are no adults and no rules and the ideal setting for Daisy's unusual bond with her cousins to grow into something very extraordinary. But war covers the land and they must lead each other in a world that is a very frightening place.