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Liz Garden
Liz Garden asked Lois Lowry:

What was your inspiration for creating the character of Gooney Bird Greene? Love the books and plan on encouraging my teachers to use them during writer's workshop, also good for our character development unit of study in reader's workshop!

Lois Lowry My own childhood memories inspired the GBG books. As a shy child I so envied those classmates who were self-confident and popular
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Kim
Kim asked Lois Lowry:

Would you go back to Easter Island? I remember reading about the fact that you finally got to go with a close friend to Easter Island and always wondered what you thought in the end.

Tiffany
Tiffany asked Lois Lowry:

If you were a character in the Giver, what assignment do you think you would be selected for?

Watsh
Watsh asked Lois Lowry:

Thank you for taking my question. I just completed reading the first book in the series - The Giver and i just started reading the next book in the series - Gathering Blue. I was expecting the story of Jonas and Gabriel to continue in the next book but i was a bit surprised to see an entirely different story. Could you not have continued the story of the first book?

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