Lowry: 236 books

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of...

Her family's new, organized schedule for easy housekeeping makes Anastasia confident that she can run the household while her mother is out of town, until she hits unexpected complications.

Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired to be a maid.

Anastasia's seventh-grade science project becomes almost more than she can handle, but brother Sam, age three, and a bust of Freud nobly aid her.

Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up, as her thirteenth year involves conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowed uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.

Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his newly acquired plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away.

In this second book about Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, Sam concocts a perfume made of his mother's favorite smells to honor her request for only homemade gifts for her birthday.

"Spontaneous, natural, and humorous." —The Bulletin J.P. is in love, and it’s making him do all sorts of weird things. Like using deodorant, bumping into walls, and imagining he hears serenading violins. J.P. has even forgotten his obsession with chess, too caught up in pondering...

Mysterious things begin to happen after Uncle Claude comes to stay with his sister's family.

Going to the park to broaden his horizons, fourteen-year-old babysitter Enid enjoys unexpected friendships with a bag lady and a black saxophonist.

La sociedad en la que vive Jonás es la perfecta descripción del mundo perfecto. Todo está bajo control; no hay colores, ni música, no hay guerra, ni posibilidad de elección. Cada persona se ajusta a las Normas de su Comunidad. Cuando Jonás cumple los 12 años y debe ser asignado a una profesión;...

The Giver is een van de klassiekers van de 20ste eeuw De maatschappij waarin Jonas opgroeit, lijkt perfect. Er is geen oorlog of pijn. Iedereen krijgt een duidelijke taak en er hoeven geen keuzes te worden gemaakt. Wanneer Jonas twaalf is, wordt hij uitverkoren. Jonas wordt Bewaker van Herinneringen:...

Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives. Contributors...

This two-volume anthology conveniently contains useful academic tools for studying the combative arts. Each chapter will prove special to all interested in the intellectual side to the martial arts. Some chapters provide fine details for categorizing the variety of what we commonly refer to as "martial...