5/11/2023 0 Comments The son book lois lowry![]() ![]() It also landed on the American Library Association’s list of the most challenged books of the nineties. ![]() Heaped with accolades, including another Newbery and a reputation as perhaps the best children’s novel ever written, it has sold more than twelve million copies. ![]() But “The Giver” remains her deepest achievement. She received a Newbery Medal, in 1990, for “ Number the Stars,” a novel about a Danish family resisting Nazi rule her series featuring Anastasia Krupnik, a mischievous pre-teen in owlish glasses, charmed both grumpy older sisters and their parents. When the book came out, in 1993, Lowry had already won a fervent following. Jonas’s training involves withstanding the prismatic flood of the past-memories of joy and pain, war and suffering-so that his tightly regulated community can thrive in ignorance. The book’s protagonist, Jonas, is his apprentice. The title character of Lois Lowry’s most famous novel, “ The Giver,” is an old man who guards all of human history and memory. ![]()
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