In Lois Lowry's children's book, "Crow Call," a young girl spends a day in the woods with her father, just home from World War II. They hunt crows, and she wears a flannel hunter's shirt that her ...

Author Lois Lowry spends her days with her Tibetian Terrier, Alfie, looking out over her bird feeder in Felmouth, Maine. Lowry, 80 next month, sits by her laptop, where she still writes children’s ...

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With the Newbery Medal to its name and more than 12 million copies sold worldwide, The Giver is often listed as one of the ...

In her new book, The Windeby Puzzle, two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry combines both narrative history and fiction to imagine the life of an adolescent child from the first century whose remains ...

What about O’Connor’s work appealed to you? In the past, circles of literary criticism—particularly what they used to call the “New Criticism” out of the University of Chicago—told us we must view ...

“Tree. Table. Book” and “Not Nothing” feature young people whose friendships with the very old unlock fading memories. By Jennifer Howard Jennifer Howard is the author of “Clutter: An Untidy History.” ...

This Tuesday, the multi-award-winning children’s author will help the Associates of the Boston Public Library ring in 20 years of supporting emerging writers. For 20 years, the Associates of the ...

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