Her first novel, 'A Summer to Die', was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, 'Number The Stars' and 'The Giver'. She has received countless honours, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. AGES: 10 - 12 AUTHOR: Lois Lowry is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. When the special "he" decides he wants to meet her, Anastasia finds herself in quite a predicament-especially since her letters might have stretched the truth just a tiny bit. Unfazed by her friends' decision to give up boys, Anastasia Krupnik answers a personal ad she finds in a magazine. When the special "he" decides he wants to meet her, Anastasia finds herself in quite a predicament especially since her letters might have stretched the truth just a tiny bit.Outspoken and irresistable as always, Anastasia Krupnik finds that when you exaggerate the truty, things don't always turn out as planned. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Outspoken and irresistable as always, Anastasia Krupnik finds that when you exaggerate the truth, things don't always turn out as planned. Lois Lowry has four children and two grandchildren. One of her other hobbies is photography, and her own photos grace the covers of Number the Stars, The Giver, and Gathering Blue. When she’s not writing, Lowry enjoys gardening during the spring and summer and knitting during the winter. Before she begins a book, she usually knows the beginning and end of her story.
Now she spends time writing every single day. After some time, she returned to college and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Maine.Lowry didn’t start writing professionally until she was in her mid-30s. She left school at 19, got married, and had four children before her 25th birthday.
She still likes to travel.At the age of 17, Lowry attended Brown University and majored in writing. Army and his job entailed a lot of traveling. An author who is “fast becoming the Beverly Cleary for the upper middle grades” (The Horn Book Magazine), Lois Lowry has written more than 20 books for young adults and is a two-time Newbery Medal winner.Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and attended junior high school in Tokyo, Japan. Whether she’s writing comedy, adventure, or poignant, powerful drama–from Attaboy, Sam! and Anastasia Krupnik to Number the Stars and The Giver–Lois Lowry’s appeal is as broad as her subject matter and as deep as her desire to affect an eager generation of readers.
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