Lois Lowry
1) The giver
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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.
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Giver quartet volume 2
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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.
4) Messenger
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2004.
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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.
5) Son
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2012.
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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.
6) Crow call
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Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
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2023.
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Estrild is not like the other girls in her village; she wants to be a warrior. Varick, the orphan boy who helps her train in spite of his twisted back, also stands apart. In a world where differences are poorly tolerated, just how much danger are they in? Inspired by the true discovery of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body in Northern Germany, Newbery Medalist and master storyteller Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron age world as she breathes...
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Sam Krupnik volume 1
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1988
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135 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler.
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Gooney Bird volume 4
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
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105 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.
10) Bless this mouse
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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011
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151 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Mouse Mistress Hildegarde musters all her ingenuity to keep a large colony of church mice safe from the exterminator and to see that they make it through the dangerous Blessing of the Animals.
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Gooney Bird volume 1
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
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115 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
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Gooney Bird volume 2
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
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76 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Gooney Bird Greene, an entertaining second grader who introduces challenging vocabulary words and tells "absolutely true" stories, finds a surprise room mother to bring cupcakes for the Thanksgiving pageant.
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Gooney Bird volume 5
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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2011
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125 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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When her second-grade classmates are envious of the three students who are going away on winter vacation, the creative and ingenious Gooney Bird Greene thinks of a geography activity to cheer them all up.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Anastasia's tenth year is filled with some wonderful happenings, like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother, but other things, including a name that is too long and a new baby brother, are awful.
15) The Willoughbys
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Willoughbys volume 1
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2008
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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.
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
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216 p. : photos ; 20 cm.
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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.
17) The silent boy
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
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178 p. ; 22 cm.
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Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
18) Gossamer
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2006
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140 p. ; 22 cm.
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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.
19) El dador
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Editorial Everest, S.A
Pub. Date
1996
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172 p. ; 21 cm.
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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.
20) On the horizon
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"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"--