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How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

How I Live Now

by Meg Rosoff
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  • Aug 1, 2004, 208 pages
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  • Jul 2005, 208 pages
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And then I fell asleep.

Excerpted from How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Copyright© 2004 by Meg Rosoff. Excerpted by permission of Wendy Lamb Books, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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