Lois Lowry
1) The giver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"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. Lois Lowry looks back at history through a personal lens as she draws from her own memories as a child in Hawaii and Japan, as well as from historical research, in this stunning work in verse...
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty years after their disappearance, the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and returned from the Alps, to the consternation of their children and grandchildren.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
This omnibus ebook contains Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning The Giver plus the acclaimed three companion books in the series.
This first-ever Lois Lowry single-volume collection includes unabridged editions of the complete Giver Quartet series: The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.
Enter this dystopian, futuristic world through all four of these books on a page-turning dystopian journey.
The Giver
...11) The silent boy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Bless this mouse
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Birthday ball
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a bored Princess Patricia Priscilla makes her chambermaid switch identities with her so she can attend the village school, her attitude changes and she plans a new way to celebrate her sixteenth birthday.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 5
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Gooney Bird's Great Uncle Walter lends her second grade class a skeleton while they study human anatomy, and at the end of the month the students use Gooney Bird's charm bracelet to present all they have learned.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.