Lois Lowry
Author
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating, moving autobiography, Lois Lowry explores her rich history through personal photographs, memories, and recollections of her childhood. Lowry's writing often transports readers into other worlds. Now, we have the rare opportunity to travel into a real world that is her own-her life.
This new edition features a refreshed design, an introduction by New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman, and original material from Lois...
42) Your Move, J.P.!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Spontaneous, natural, and humorous." -The Bulletin J.P. is in love, and it's making him do all sorts of weird things. Like using deodorant, bumping into walls, and imagining he hears serenading violins. J.P. has even forgotten his obsession with chess, too caught up in pondering the beauty of Angela Patricia Galsworthy, a girl who has just moved to town from London and has the most charming British accent. J.P. will do anything to impress Angela,...
43) All About Sam
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sam Krupnik finally gets to tell his version of life with his big sister, Lowry's popular Anastasia Krupnik.
44) El dador
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
¡Ahora disponible en español! Ganador de la Medalla Newbery y un New York Times bestseller, El dador.
Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal—winning classic story of a young boy discovering the dark secrets behind his seemingly ideal world is now in Spanish.
La comunidad donde vive Jonas es idílica. Es un mundo sin conflicto, sin desigualdad, sin desempleo, sin dolor... pero también sin elección. A los ciudadanos se les asigna una pareja y un trabajo....
45) The Silent Boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Katy Thatcher was the bright and curious daughter of the town doctor. She was fascinated by her father's work, and even as a child she knew that she too wanted to be a doctor. She wanted to know about people. Perhaps it was this, her insatiable curiosity, or simply the charm of Jacob's gentle intimacy with animals large and small, that fueled their friendship. Although Jacob never spoke to her or even looked at her directly, Katy grew to understand...
46) Rabble Starkey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Many things change for twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey, her mother, and her best friend, Veronica Bigelow, when Veronica's mother becomes mentally incapacitated and the Starkeys move in with the Bigelows.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Gooney Bird Greene returns for more adventures in this chapter-book series from Newbery Medal—winner Lois Lowry, with Middy Thomas's black-and-white illustrations bringing the classroom to life throughout.
Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class has a lot to celebrate in February: presidents' birthdays, Valentine's Day, and school vacation. Of course, the students are talking about their awesome vacation plans every chance they get. It can be hard to...
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Pidgeon has been reading Aesop's fables to her second grade class. What's a fable? Well, it's a story that has animals as characters, and it teaches you something important, and... Once again it is Gooney Bird Greene who knows how to turn lessons into fun. She has an idea. A fabulous idea! What if each child creates his or her own fable, and tells it to the class? One by one Mrs. Pidgeon's students create costumes and stories and morals and excitement....
Author
Language
English
Description
Born between a board fence and a set of trash cans, the hero of this absorbing novel by Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry is a lowly stray dog. Abandoned at an early age by his mother and separated from his siblings, he faces every challenge with his nose upturned and his lustrous tail held high. His journey out of puppyhood, during which he becomes the loyal companion to a homeless man, discovers an ear for poetry, and meets his match in his brutal rival,...
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The fourth hilarious title in Lowis Lowry's popular Gooney Bird series!
It's a cold January at the Watertower Elementary School-the perfect weather for Gooney Bird Greene to break out her special brain-warming hat! It's a good thing she has one. Gooney Bird's brain will need to be as warm as possible this month, because Mrs. Pidgeon is teaching her class about poetry. Who knew there could be so many different ways to write a poem? Haikus, couplets,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Princess Patricia Priscilla is bored with her royal life and the excitement surrounding her sixteenth birthday ball. Doomed to endure courtship by three grotesquely unappealing noblemen, she escapes her fate-for a week. Disguised as a peasant, she attends the village school as the smart new girl, "Pat," and attracts friends and the attention of the handsome schoolmaster. Disgusting suitors, lovable peasants, and the clueless king and queen collide...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The most useless and obnoxious thing in the world to Caroline Tate is her older brother, J.P., the genius with the photographic memory. But now, for the first time, she needs him. She needs him because upstairs in the fifth-floor apartment of their building is a mystery man who plans to commit a terrible crime-and she and J.P. are the targets! Luckily, Caroline's best friend, Stacy, wants to be an investigative journalist, so she knows how to gather...
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2009
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (ca. 71 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gooney Bird Greene: A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
Gooney Bird and the room mother: Gooney Bird Greene, an entertaining second grader who introduces challenging vocabulary words and tells "absolutely true" stories, finds a surprise room mother to bring cupcakes for the Thanksgiving...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
My name is Lydia. This is my story. . . .In 1918, as the Great War rages in Europe, the
Spanish influenza tears a brutal path across the United
States, leaving devastation in its wake. Suddenly, eleven year-
old Lydia Pierce and her older brother, Daniel, find
themselves orphans of the flu, and are taken by their
grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at
Sabbathday Lake. Thrust into the Shakers' unfamiliar
way of life, Lydia, a fiercely...
Author
Language
English
Description
Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive. In an utterly one-of-a-kind blend of fiction and history, a master storyteller explores the mystery and life of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body.
Estrild is not like the other girls in her village; she wants to be a warrior. Varick, the orphan boy who helps...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Reading and conversation with the treasured author of Number the Stars, The Giver, and many other favorite works for kids and teens. Special guest Sean Astin (The Goonies, The Lord of the Rings) will join Lowry for a celebration of The Newbery Medal-winning Number the Stars 25th anniversary. He and his wife have purchased the film rights and are proud to be adapting Number the Stars for the screen. Fellow author Lauren Oliver (Panic, Delirium) leads...
58) The Giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
[English/Spanish subtitled version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own nature. Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Classroom Complete Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1
Language
English
Description
Enter a futuristic world where all manner of emotions are nonexistent. Students imagine a future and how different it will be to their present. Provide writing prompts that encourage students to make strong text connections. Explain Jonas' mindset when he brought home the apple, an act that is forbidden in this society. Write a journal entry as Jonas, expressing his innermost feelings about what will happen the following day. Write and post a review
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