Lois Lowry






Lois Lowry

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born
March 20, 1937

gender
female

place of birth
Oahu, Hawaii, The United States

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Children's Books, Literature & Fiction


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Taken from Lowry's website:
"I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad; together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets; and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.
Because my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. I was born in Ha...more




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Now I am in Chicago, staying at a B&B called Ray's Bucktown B&B, subtitled o its business cards "Not Your Parents' B&B"---of course what Ray, the proprietor, doesn't realize is that I AM my parents, or even my grandparents.

I don't know this city well, or its neighborhoods, but "Bucktown" seems to be a funky/artsy neighborhood, and therefore, I suppose, would not be the choice o...

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avg rating: 4.08 | 141,575 ratings | 14,845 reviews | 55 distinct works | 339 fans
The Giver The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by Lois Lowry
avg rating 4.13 — 91,668 ratings — published 1993
49 editions
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Number the Stars Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
avg rating 4.12 — 21,315 ratings — published 1989
35 editions
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Gathering Blue Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
by Lois Lowry
avg rating 3.81 — 7,803 ratings — published 2000
24 editions
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Messenger Messenger (The Giver, #3)
by Lois Lowry
avg rating 3.87 — 4,645 ratings — published 2004
15 editions
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Gossamer Gossamer
by Lois Lowry
avg rating 3.86 — 2,192 ratings — published 2006
8 editions
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The Willoughbys The Willoughbys
by Lois Lowry
avg rating 3.71 — 1,468 ratings — published 2008
5 editions
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Anastasia Krupnik Anastasia Krupnik (A Bantam-Skylark Book)
by Lois Lowry
avg rating 3.87 — 948 ratings — published 1984
22 editions
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A Summer to Die A Summer to Die
by Lois Lowry
avg rating 3.83 — 767 ratings — published 1977
20 editions
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The Silent Boy The Silent Boy
by Lois Lowry
avg rating 3.63 — 619 ratings — published 2003
8 editions
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Anastasia Again! Anastasia Again! (Anastasia Series)
by Lois Lowry
avg rating 3.66 — 491 ratings — published 1981
20 editions
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"Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none"
Lois Lowry (Gathering Blue)
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"Memory is the happiness of being alone."
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"The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things."
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