Search Results: Returned 12 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 12
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By Lowry, Lois1981., Ages 3-6, Houghton Mifflin Call No: Y LOW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs.
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By Lowry, Loisc1979., Ages 3-6, Houghton Mifflin Call No: Y LOW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Anastasia's 10th 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.
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By Lowry, Lois1987., Ages 3-6, Houghton Mifflin Call No: Y LOW Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Anastasia acquires poise and self-confidence, a new friend, and advice on becoming a bookstore owner when she commutes to Boston to take a modeling course.
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By Lowry, Loisc2000., 5-8; 6.3, Houghton Mifflin Call No: Y LOW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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.
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[2019], Age 9-13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: GN LOW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jonas' life assignment is as 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.
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By Lowry, Lois2002, Ages 10-15, Laurel Leaf Books Call No: Y LOW Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Giver Volume: #1Summary Note: Lowry's unforgettable tale introduces 12-year-old Jonas, who is singled out by the Community to be trained by The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of true pain and pleasure. Now it's time for Jonas to receiver the truth.
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By Lowry, Lois2011., Scholastic Call No: YS DEA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
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By Lowry, Lois2004., Young Adult, Houghton Mifflin Call No: Y LOW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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.
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By Lowry, Lois[2005?]., Yearling Book Call No: G LOW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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[2020]., Ages 9-12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: J LANG 940.54 25219540922 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 work in verse for young readers. On the Horizon tells the story of people whose lives were lost or forever altered by the twin tragedies of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. Based on the lives of soldiers at Pearl Harbor and civilians in Hiroshima, On the Horizon contemplates humanity and war through verse that sings with pain, truth, and the importance of bridging cultural divides. This work emphasizes empathy and understanding in search of commonality and friendship, vital lessons for students as well as citizens of today's world. Kenard Pak's illustrations depict real-life people, places, and events, making for an vivid return to our collective past.
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By Lowry, Lois2012., 7-12; Ages 12 and up, Houghton Mifflin Call No: Y LOW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Giver Volume: #4Summary Note: Unlike the other birthmothers in her utopian community, fourteen-year-old Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
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By Lowry, Lois[2020]., Ages 8 to 12; Grades 4-6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Y LOW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Willoughbys Volume: #2Summary Note: Thirty years after their disappearance, the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and returned from the Alps, to the consternation of their children and grandchildren.
