Lois Lowry
42) El dador
Author
Publisher
Everest
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
172 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonás 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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Revised and expanded, with a foreword by Alice Hoffman.
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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...
44) Autumn street
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her father goes to fight in World War II, Elizabeth goes with her mother and sister to her grandfather's house where she learns to face up to the always puzzling and often cruel realities of the adult world.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 CDs (11 hr., 28 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All about Sam: Everyone knows Sam Krupnik. He's Anastasia's pesky but lovable younger brother. This is Sam's big chance to tell things exactly the way he sees them. He has his own ideas about haircuts, nursery school, getting shots, and not eating broccoli. Sam thinks a lot about being bigger and stronger, about secret codes and show-and-tell. Make way for your little brother, Anastasia. Here for the first time is Sam Krupnik's story. What a life!
Attaboy,...
46) Zooman Sam
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
155 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.
48) Switcharound
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline, age eleven, and J.P., age thirteen, are given unpleasant responsibilities for which they are determined to get revenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4 hr., 17 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking her overprotected young charge to the public park to broaden his horizons, fourteen-year-old baby sitter Enid enjoys unexpected friendships with a black saxophonist and a bag lady until she is charged with kidnapping.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two-time Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry brings a brand-new, beautiful diary to the Dear America series!Suddenly orphaned by the Spanish flu epidemic in the fall of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother, Daniel, of Portland, Maine, are taken by their uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Thrust into the Shakers' unfamiliar way of life, Lydia must grapple with a new world that is nothing...
Publisher
Weston Woods Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (41 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Children Make Terrible Pets: Lucy, a young bear, meets a charming little boy in the forest. When she brings him home, her mother cautions her that children make terrible pets. All the World: A circle of family and friends shows the importance of all things great and small. Crow Call: Liz and her father, who has been away at war for longer than she can remember, begin their journey to reconnect. Elizabeti's Doll: When her new baby brother arrives,...
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
178 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Best-selling and award-winning authors take on the brave new world of middle school in this remarkable collection, brimming with humor and heart. Subjects range from peer pressure, homework, family issues, and cultural barriers to the unexpected saving graces of music, art, friendship, and reading. This engaging anthology, filled with texts, emails, formal letters, stories in verse, first-person narratives, and even a short graphic novel, shines...
Author
Publisher
Hesperus Minor
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The Bastable children have been banished to the country in disgrace, following a particularly damaging re-enaction of a jungle scene featuring expensive stuffed animals and a garden hose. Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius (H.O.), decide to turn over a new leaf. Spurred on by Dora's urgings, the children found 'The Society of the Wouldbegoods' aiming to mend their ways by being good whenever possible. But the schemes they undertake...
Author
Language
English
Description
Few works in literature have received as much popular and critical attention as Nobel Laureate William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Since its publication in 1954, it has amassed a cult following, and has significantly contributed to our dystopian vision of the post-war era. When responding to the novel's dazzling power of intellectual insight, scholars and critics often invoke the works of Shakespeare, Freud, Rousseau, Sartre, Orwell, and Conrad....