Lois Lowry
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
115 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
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.
Author
Series
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...
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 CDs (3 hrs., 20 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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 listeners to an Iron age world as she breathes...