Lois Lowry

Series

Giver quartet volume 3
The Giver

Formats

Description

In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

2) Gathering blue

Author

Series

Giver quartet volume 2
The Giver

Formats

Description

Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. Companion book to: The Giver, Messenger, and Son.;Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to...

3) Son

Author

Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

Series

Giver quartet volume 4

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Description

When the young girl washes up on their shore, no one knew she had been a Vessel. That she had carried a Product. That it had been carved into her belly. Stolen. Claire had had a son. She was supposed to forget about him, but that was impossible. When he was taken from their community, she knew she had to follow. And so her journey began. But here in this wind-battered village Claire is welcomed as one of their own. In the security of her new home,...

4) The Giver

Author

Banned & Challenged Books
Newbery

Series

Giver quartet volume 1

Appears on these lists

Formats

Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Local Library Checkout Only, Playaway

Description

Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.

5) Number the Stars

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Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Online Content, Playaway

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Newbery

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Description

Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter...

6) Gossamer

Author

Thorndike Press large print literacy bridge

Series

Formats

Book, CD, eBook, Kindle

Description

While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.

7) A summer to die

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Series

Formats

Description

Thirteen-year-old Meg envys her sister's beauty and popularity. Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death.

8) The Willoughbys

Author

Series

Willoughbys volume 1

Formats

Description

In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.

9) Bless this mouse

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Formats

Description

Mouse Mistress Hildegarde musters all her ingenuity to keep a large colony of church mice safe from the exterminator and to see that they make it through the dangerous Blessing of the Animals.

10) The birthday ball

Author

Formats

Book, CD, eBook, Kindle

Description

When a bored Princess Patricia Priscilla makes her chambermaid switch identities with her so she can attend the village school, her attitude changes and she plans a new way to celebrate her sixteenth birthday.

11) Crow call

Author

Pub. Date

[2009]

Description

Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.

12) Your move, J.P.!

Author

Caroline Tate
Just the Tates!

Series

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Lovestruck J.P. finds himself doing all sorts of weird things to impress his new interest but his life becomes very complicated when a simple lie gets out of control.

13) The Giver

Author

Book, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

Series

Giver quartet graphic novels volume 1
The Giver Graphic Novel

Pub. Date

2019.

Formats

Description

Jonas' life assignment is the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.

14) On the Horizon

Author

Pub. Date

2020

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak.

Lois Lowry looks back at history through a personal lens as she draws from her own memories as a child in Hawaii and Japan, as well as from historical research, in this

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15) The Giver Quartet Omnibus

Author

Series

Giver Quartet

Pub. Date

2014

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

This omnibus ebook contains Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning The Giver plus the acclaimed three companion books in the series.

This first-ever Lois Lowry single-volume collection includes unabridged editions of the complete Giver Quartet series: The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.

Enter this dystopian, futuristic world through all four of these books on a page-turning dystopian journey.

The Giver

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16) The Giver Illustrated Gift Edition

Author

Series

Giver quartet volume 1

Pub. Date

2011

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

In Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.

Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and

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17) Anastasia Krupnik

Author

Series

Anastasia Krupnik volume 1

Formats

Book, Large Print

Description

Anastasia's tenth year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.

18) Switcharound

Author

Series

Caroline and J. P. Tate volume 2
Caroline Tate
Just the Tates!

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline, age eleven, and J.P., age thirteen, are given unpleasant responsibilities for which they are determined to get revenge.

19) Anastasia at your service

Author

Series

Anastasia Krupnik volume 3

Description

Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired instead to be a maid. Sequel to "Anastasia again."

20) The Giver: Lois Lowry

Author

Series

Giver quartet volume 1

Pub. Date

2014.

Description