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. James is known for: with suspense, interesting characters, and a gripping story and that makes it one of the books like The Giver. Now she spends time writing every single day. The Children of Men is a story about a world with no children and no future. 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. At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain o. 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. Books similar to The Giver (The Giver, 1) The Giver (The Giver, 1) by Lois Lowry.

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