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About Lois Lowry
American writer
Lois Ann Lowry is an American writer best known for her books for children and young adults. Her work includes The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, the Anastasia series, and Rabble Starkey. She is noted for taking on difficult subject matter in writing for younger readers, often through dystopian settings and other complex themes. Her books have reached a wide audience across children’s and young adult literature.
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- “I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.”Lois Lowry
Explore Letting Go
- “For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting cours…”Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.”Shannon L. Alder
- “She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.”Julianna Baggott
Explore Optimism
- “Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unreali…”Claire
- “The difference was not that one was a pessimist and the other an optimist, it was that one's pessimism had le…”Paul Auster
- “The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.”Voltaire
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Books by Lois Lowry
The Giver
1999
Number the Stars
2003
Gathering Blue
2001
Messenger (The Giver #3)
2004
Anastasia Krupnik
1995