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Gooney Bird Greene
Lois Lowry
Yearling, 2004
Gooney Bird is an Original!
I read this book to my fourth graders, and they loved it! Gooney Bird is an original thinker who always tells the truth! We had fun speculating exactly how her "wild" tales could be true, before we read on.
Gooney Bird also discusses the ways to make writing better, ...
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Messenger
Lois Lowry
Laurel Leaf, 2006
The Ideal home changes
Identified as the "Companion": to Newbery-winning "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue", I picked up Messenger with high expectations. The other two were terrific, stunning in their own ways. I wasn't disappointed. Lowry's created world in which the three villages of the ...
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Gossamer
Lois Lowry
Yearling, 2008
Great Book
This book pulled me in; I couldn't help but keep turning the pages til I reached the end.
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The Willoughbys
Lois Lowry
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 2008
You and your kids will love this one
This is a really good book. I read it first to see if it was okay for children, and had to ration myself to a couple of chapters per day to make it last--(you know how you hate to have a good book end.) I really liked it and my brother's children LOVED it (ages ...
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The Giver
Lois Lowry
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2006
The Giver, An Amazing Book!
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if everything was perfect? What if there was no violence and no hatred? Imagine a world devoid of color and only minor differences exist. Imagine being able to take a pill that solves all of ...
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The Silent Boy (Readers Circle)
Lois Lowry
Laurel Leaf, 2005
Unexpected ending for The Silent Boy
The ending of The Silent Boy was very unexpected. I was schocked that Jacob, an autistic boy, was sentenced to life in the Asylum. The ending touched me when it showed how badly mentally disabled people were treated and misunderstood back then. The ending was very sad. ...
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The Worlds of Lois Lowry 3 Copy Boxed Set (The Giver, Gathering Blue, The Messenger)
Lois Lowry
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2006
The Worlds of Lois Lowry
All I can say is: READ THESE BOOKS - you will not be able to put them down. They capture your heart and mind, and, what a wonderful time you will have reading Lowis Lowry. You dont have to be a child to read these books, I am not a child and I throughly enjoyed ...
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A Summer to Die
Lois Lowry
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2007
Meeting an old friend
I read this book in school than we moved and I lost it, it was like meeting an old friend again
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The Giver
Lois Lowry
Laurel Leaf, 2002
Experience the highest highs and the lowest lows - or be mired in mediocrity
Eleven-year-old Jonas is a typical boy living in a futuristic world of mediocrity. Even the geography, (completely flat) and the color scheme (only black and white) are bland. The elder of two children (all that is allowed per family unit), he attends school and enjoys ...
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Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Laurel Leaf, 1998
The Run Away
Struggling through the ravages of World War II, Annemarie, her family, and her best friend Ellen wait in hiding until the Nazis retreat and let Denmark free once more. This wonderful story "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry, is about friendship, tragedy, and, love. It ...
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Gooney the Fabulous
Lois Lowry
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 2007
Latest Gooney story of a win-win girl's ideas.
Lois Lowery's GOONEY THE FABULOUS presents grades 2-5 with a fine easy reader telling of Mrs. Pidgeon, who has been reading fables to her second grade class. But Gooney Greene isn't content with hearing fables: what if each child creates his or her own fable and tells ...
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Attaboy, Sam! (Sam)
Lois Lowry
Yearling, 1993
Purrrrr-fume!
I read the book Atta-Boy Sam. It's a story about a little boy named Sam who is 4 or 5 years old, and it's his mom's birthday.The store ran out of her favorite purfume Sam wants it to be the best birthday ever so he decides to make a home made purfume!Sam pays extra ...
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Anastasia Again (Anastasia)
Lois Lowry
Yearling, 1982
Anastasia Again Book Reiview
Anastasia Again is about a girl that is in the 6th grade and moves to the suburbs. She moves because her apartment is getting too small since her mom is a painter and needs a studio and her dad is a writer and needs bookshelves. Anastasia is 12 and her brother Sam is ...
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Gooney Bird and the Room Mother
Lois Lowry
Yearling, 2006
Recommended for Advanced elementary to early middle school
Advanced elementary to early middle school readers will relish Lois Lowry's Gooney Bird And The Room Mother telling of Gooney Bird Greene, who likes to be the center of attention most of the time. Her roles are changing as she enter second grade, leaving her in doubt ...
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The Silent Boy (Readers Circle)
Lois Lowry
Laurel Leaf, 2005
Unexpected ending for The Silent Boy
The ending of The Silent Boy was very unexpected. I was schocked that Jacob, an autistic boy, was sentenced to life in the Asylum. The ending touched me when it showed how badly mentally disabled people were treated and misunderstood back then. The ending was very sad. ...
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