Lowry explains, “My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections." Born in Hawaii, Lowry, the second of three children, moved all over the world with her Army dentist father. Aw...
Uncle Henrik What did cigarettes stand for?” Jewish people What is the Resistance? A group of people who worked against the NAzis Who is the Giraffe? Soldier on the corner of Osterbrigade Nazi soldier that stopped the girls (chapter 1) What w...
discussed in biography InLois Lowry: The Newbery Medal for Number the Stars and The Giver …her first Newbery Medal, forNumber the Stars(1989), an account of a young girl and her family helping Jewish neighbours escape Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1943. Lowry’s second Newbery came in 1994, fo...