Edited by Judy Sternlight. Simon & Schuster, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6519-8
This appealing collection, edited by Brown alum Sternlight, is neither an ode to the institution nor a glossy publicity stunt marking the university’s 250th anniversary. It’s a relaxed roundtable of reminiscences from accomplished graduates—writers,
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Lois Lowry, Author Laurel Leaf Library $6.5 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-21907-1
Winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal, this thought-provoking novel centers on a 12-year-old boy's gradual disillusionment with an outwardly utopian futuristic society; in a starred review, PW said, ``Lowry is once again in top form... unwinding a tale...
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Lois Lowry, Author Yearling Books $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-440-40652-5
The Newbery Medalist's irrepressible heroine is in top form as, deciding she's ready for romance, she answers a personals ad--with typically hilarious results. Ages 9-12. (Aug.)
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Lois Lowry, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17 (192p) ISBN 978-0-395-64566-6
In the ``ideal'' world into which Jonas was born, everybody has sensibly agreed that well-matched married couples will raise exactly two offspring, one boy and one girl. These children's adolescent sexual impulses will be stifled with specially...
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Lois Lowry, Author Yearling Books $5.5 (128p) ISBN 978-0-440-41222-9
After accidentally dropping a bag of what she refers to as dog ""you know what"" into a mailbox, the lively heroine of this popular series is sure that she has committed a federal offense. Ages 9-12. (Apr.)
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Lois Lowry, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17 (192p) ISBN 978-0-395-89543-6
Lowry (The Giver; Number the Stars) deftly dances between humorous and heartbreaking with this ingenious memoir. Unlike most autobiographies, this one forgoes a linear chronology in favor of a more inventive thematic organization. Lowry introduces...
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Lois Lowry, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-32699-5
Introducing each section of this memoir with an excerpt from one of her novels, the author ""unfolds her history in a glorious arc, invisibly threading its parts into a unified whole. Her connection of the everyday details of her life to the larger...
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Lois Lowry, Author Walter Lorraine Books $16 (224p) ISBN 978-0-618-05581-4
After conjuring the pitfalls of a technologically advanced society in The Giver, Lowry looks toward a different type of future to create this dark, prophetic tale with a strong medieval flavor. Having suffered numerous unnamed disasters (aka, the...
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Lois Lowry, Author Walter Lorraine Books $15 (192p) ISBN 978-0-618-28231-9
Set in the early 1900s, Lowry's (Number the Stars) lyrical novel unspools at a leisurely pace through the eyes of Katy, who wishes to follow in the footsteps of her doctor father. As the narrator chronicles the pivotal year she turns nine, she ...
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Lois Lowry, Author Yearling Books $4.5 (128p) ISBN 978-0-440-48415-8
Big city kids Caroline and J. P. Tate find themselves in Des Moines, in the custody of their father, in Lowry's tender, funny story. Ages 8-12. (April)
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Lois Lowry, Author Yearling Books $4.5 (128p) ISBN 978-0-440-40497-2
In the third book starring the irrepressible James Priestly Tate, the 12-year-old experiences love for the first time, but gets in hot water when he tells his inamorata that he has a rare, fatal disease. Ages 9-12. (Sept.)
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Lois Lowry, Author Yearling Books $5.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-40291-6
Anastasia Krupnik reappears in this ``delicious '' comedy, which PW proclaimed ``a winner.'' Ages 9-12. (Sept.)
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Lois Lowry, Author Planeta $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-84-239-6334-8
Gr 3-7-A 13-year-old girl growing up in the suburbs of Boston, Anastasia Krupnik is looking for ways to make an impact on the world around her. She likes her gym teacher, Wilhelmina Willoughby, and wants her approval but can't seem to master ...
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Lois Lowry. Houghton Mifflin, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-547-88720-3
Drawing characters and themes from The Giver and its companions, Gathering Blue and Messenger, Lowry concludes her Giver Quartet nearly 20 years after the Newbery Medal–winning first book was published. The story is divided into three sections, and...
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Lois Lowry. Clarion, $18.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06329-950-4
Lowry (Gossamer) movingly explores the unusual, intergenerational friendship between two Sophies: widowed 88-year-old Polish-born Sophie Gershowitz and 11-year-old Sophie Winslow, next-door neighbors in a small New Hampshire town. The two enjoy what
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Lois Lowry, Author Yearling Books $5.99 (188p) ISBN 978-0-440-40344-9
Liz, now grown, remembers a time in her childhood when her father was away in the army, her mother and sister busy, her grandparents remote. She turned for friendship to Tatie, a black cook, and Tatie's son Charles, a friendship that led to tragedy.
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Lois Lowry, Author . Houghton/Lorraine $16 (169p) ISBN 978-0-618-40441-4
Lowry masterfully presents another thought-provoking, haunting tale in this third novel, a companion to The Giver
and Gathering Blue
. Matty, the scruffy thief from Gathering Blue
, lives with the blind man called Seer and helps him around the...
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Lois Lowry, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $5.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-440-41980-8
Nine-year-old Katy describes the unlikely friendship she develops with a "touched" farm boy. "The author balances humor and generosity with the obstacles and injustice of Katy's world to depict a complete picture of the turn of the...
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Lois Lowry, Author . Houghton/Lorraine $16 (140p) ISBN 978-0-618-68550-9
Lowry's (The Giver
) spellbinding story centers on a clever, curious young dream-giver. Littlest One is learning the nocturnal task performed by her kind, which entails gently touching objects belonging to a human, thereby gathering "memories
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Lois Lowry, Author , illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline. Scholastic Press $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-03035-9
A parent returning as a stranger after WWII could be a difficult situation, but in Newbery Medalist Lowry’s first picture book, drawn from her childhood, the reunion brings warmth and trust. Out on a fall hunting trip with her father, Lizzie...
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Lois Lowry, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (128p) ISBN 978-0-395-39536-3
Rating another A+ for the latest in an unbroken list of superb novels, Lowry regales us with the second adventures of Caroline and J. P. Tate, who won readers' hearts in The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline. ""We're in a nightmare,'' says J. P. ``W
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Lois Lowry, Author Yearling Books $6.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-440-40327-2
Set in Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1943, this 1990 Newbery winner tells of a 10-year-old girl who undertakes a dangerous mission to save her best friend. Ages 10-14. (Sept.)
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Lois Lowry, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (128p) ISBN 978-0-395-41795-9
The sixth story about irrepressible Anastasia Krupnik begins with Anastasia deciding she cannot attend the funeral of her Aunt Rose in California. Anastasia, it turns out, is afraid not only of flying, but of dying. So the Krupniks leave Anastasia...
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Lois Lowry, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-395-56263-5
At 13, the inimitable Anastasia Krupnik is ready for romance--if not with the immature boys at school, then perhaps with the mysterious and intriguing 28-year-old ``SWM'' whose personals ad catches her eye. Adopting her own carefully chosen acronym...
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Lois Lowry, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (142p) ISBN 978-0-395-42506-0
The irrepressible and fun-loving Anastasia Krupnik is back in her seventh book. This time she's agonizing about a school assignment that requires her to write about her ""future career.'' But Anastasia doesn't know what she wants to do when she...
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Lois Lowry, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (128p) ISBN 978-0-395-53639-1
J.P. Tate, age 12, is in love for the first time. But not with just anybody: he's in love with the exquisitely beautiful Angela Patricia Galsworthy, who has just moved to America from London. J.P. is so infatuated that he will go to any lengths to...
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Lois Lowry, Author, True Kelley, Illustrator Yearling Books $5.5 (128p) ISBN 978-0-440-41524-4
PW admired Lowry's ""warm sense of humor and vivid imagination"" in this ""whimsical tale told from a dog's eye view."" Ages 9-12. (Apr.)
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Lois Lowry, Author, Diane de Groat, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (135p) ISBN 978-0-395-48662-7
Readers familiar with Lowry's Anastasia books may think they know Sam, the Krupniks' son. But they will find out differently when they read Lowry's latest humorous book, told from Sam's point-of-view. There is more to Sam than his older sister gives
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Lois Lowry, Author, Diane de Groat, Illustrator Yearling Books $5.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-40221-3
Sam Krupnik, younger sibling of the noted Anastasia, presents his side of the story as he shares his views on major issues such as life, growing up and haircuts. Ages 8-12. (Oct.)
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Lois Lowry, Author, Diane de Groat, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (128p) ISBN 978-0-395-61588-1
In this high-spirited and generally funny novel, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother displays her enterprising spirit--and her propensity for disaster. For his mother's birthday, Sam determines to concoct a special perfume by combining her favorite...
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Lois Lowry, Author, Jules Feiffer, Illustrator , illus. by Jules Feiffer. Houghton Mifflin $16 (186p) ISBN 978-0-547-23869-2
Lowry uses her knack for cleverly turning familiar stories on their heads (last seen in The Willoughbys
) in this tale about a princess who's utterly bored with privileged palace life. With her 16th birthday and her mandatory choice of a...
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Lois Lowry, Author, Diane de Groat, Author, Diane de Groat, Illustrator Yearling Books $5.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-440-41400-1
Sam (Anastasia's little brother) is forbidden to wear his plastic fangs in the house and attempts to run away to Alaska, where the walruses will surely accept his oral protrusions. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Lois Lowry, illus. by Eric Rohmann, Houghton Mifflin, $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-547-39009-3
An endangered community of church mice stars in Lowry's old-fashioned animal fantasy. When the mice of St. Bartholomew's—already fearing the annual Blessing of the Animals that brings an onslaught of cats into their home—learn that too many mouse...
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Lois Lowry, Author, Thomas Middy Chilman, Illustrator . Dell/Yearling $5.50 (96p) ISBN 978-0-440-41960-0
A feisty, friendly heroine tells her classmates "absolutely true" stories even though they seem anything but. "Youngsters will likely hope that Gooney Bird has enough tales to fill another volume," wrote PW.
Ages 7-10. (Mar.)
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Lois Lowry, Author, Anne Twomey, Read by , read by Anne Twomey. Listening Library $27 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3526-0
Lowry's poetic, fanciful story of tiny, elfish "dream-givers" who put nighttime imaginings into the heads of human sleepers is not an ideal choice for audio. The many lyrical, detailed descriptions of the dream-givers gathering "fragm
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Lois Lowry, Author, Lois Lowry, Illustrator . Houghton/Lorraine $16 (174p) ISBN 978-0-618-97974-5
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Lois Lowry, who casts her noble and enviable shadow wide across the landscape of children's literature, from fantasy to realism, here turns her quick, sly gaze to parody, a word which in this case means
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Lois Lowry, Author, Middy Thomas, Illustrator , illus. by Middy Thomas. Houghton/Lorraine $15 (96p) ISBN 978-0-618-23848-4
Two-time Newbery Medalist Lowry (The Giver; Number the Stars) introduces a feisty, friendly heroine in this light novel. Readers know immediately that red-haired, freckle-face Gooney Bird Greene is as unorthodox as her name: wearing pajamas and...
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Lois Lowry. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-358-42389-8
Twelve years after the publication of The Willoughbys and 30 years after it takes place, Lowry’s quirky cast returns for another madcap adventure, balancing the original’s droll voice and elaborate plotting with a slightly more humane tone. With the
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Lois Lowry, illus. by Jonathan Stroh. Clarion, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-358672-50-0
Alternating via five sections between conversational history and evocative storytelling, Newbery Medalist Lowry creates a contemplative narrative around an Iron Age bog body found in northern Germany. A factual introduction describes the 1952...
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Lois Lowry, illus. by Kenard Pak. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-358-12940-0
As a child, two-time Newbery Medalist Lowry lived in Hawaii and Japan, where her father was deployed during and after WWII. Lowry uses that personal lens to view two horrific acts of war: the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan and the atomic...
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Lois Lowry, adapted by P. Craig Russell, illus. by P. Craig Russell et al. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-544-15788-0
This graphic novel adaptation of Lowry’s Newbery Medal–winning book hews close to the original text, retaining nearly all dialogue and narration in some form while substituting visual depiction for textual description. When Jonas turns 12, his...
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