Lois Lowry

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.

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.

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.

Although thirteen-year-old Meg envys her sister's beauty and popularity, her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

In Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.

Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and

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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.

Ngưoi lon hay tre nho, có lẽ không ai không thèm muon mot the gioi như cua Jonas, nơi mọi bat trac đã đưoc loại tru: chien tranh, đói nghèo, benh tat, cha mẹ quo mang và điem thap o trưong. Moi cá nhân đưoc giao Nhiem vụ thích hop trong cong đong, và xã hoi này, van hành yên on trong kiem soát, hình như không the hoàn thien hơn the nua. Hoac ít nhat đó cũng là ý nghĩ cua Jonas lúc này, trong buoi...

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. ¡Ahora disponible en español! Ganador de la Medalla Newbery y un New York Times bestseller, El dador.