Lois Lowry
1) The giver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1990. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a bored Princess Patricia Priscilla makes her chambermaid switch identities with her so she can attend the village school, her attitude changes and she plans a new way to celebrate her sixteenth birthday.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after their disappearance, the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and returned from the Alps, to the consternation of their children and grandchildren.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
142 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anastasia acquires poise and self-confidence, a new friend, and advice on becoming a bookstore owner when she commutes to Boston to take a modeling course.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
75 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"--
9) The Giver
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Newbery medal winner, 1994. 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 community in which he lives.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, two outcasts in an Iron Age village befriend each other, as disabled, orphaned Varick helps Estrild achieve her dream of becoming the first female warrior. Inspired by the Windeby bog body.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
216 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
12) Gossamer
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, two outcasts in an Iron Age village befriend each other, as disabled, orphaned Varick helps Estrild achieve her dream of becoming the first female warrior. Inspired by the Windeby bog body.
14) The silent boy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
178 p.
Language
English
Description
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old dauaghter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
15) Gossamer
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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 nightmare inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
16) The silent boy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
178 p.: ill.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
17) Giver, The
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
180 p. cm.
Language
English
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.
18) The Giver
Author
Series
The giver quartet volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
176 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.