Lois Lowry
1) Messenger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
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.
2) Gossamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
3) Crow call
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
6) The giver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
7) Son
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gooney Bird's Great Uncle Walter lends her second grade class a skeleton while they study human anatomy, and at the end of the month the students use Gooney Bird's charm bracelet to present all they have learned.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 pageant.
12) 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 con&8;icto, sin desigualdad, sin desempleo, sin dolor... pero también sin elección. A los ciudadanos se les asigna una pareja y un trabajo....
Author
Language
English
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Description
Award-winning and best-selling author Lois Lowry explores issues surrounding adoption in this poignant novel.
Natalie Armstrong has everything: she's smart and beautiful, has the perfect boyfriend, early acceptance to college, and a loving family. But the summer she turns seventeen, she finally decides to ask some unanswered questions: Who are her biological parents and why did they give her up when she was born?
These questions take her on a journey...
14) A Summer to Die
Author
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister Molly's beauty and popularity, and these feelings make it difficult for her to cope with Molly's illness and death.
15) On the Horizon
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak. 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 stunning work in verse...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The Giver: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -- Gathering blue: 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....
18) Gathering blue
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.