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The Giver Quartet is a series of four books about a dystopian world by Lois Lowry. The quartet consists of The Giver (1993), Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger (2004), and Son (2012). [1] [2] The first book won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 10 million copies. [3] [4] The story takes place in the world of The Giver. Each book has a ...
It ranked #11 on the American Library Association list of the most challenged books of the 1990s, [5] ranked #23 in the 2000s, [6] and ranked #61 in the 2010s. [7] The novel is the first in a loose quartet of novels known as The Giver Quartet, with three subsequent books set in the same universe: Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger (2004), and Son ...
Publishers Weekly referred to Gossamer as a "poetic, fanciful", [1] and "spellbinding story" crafted with Lowry's "exquisite, at times mesmerizing writing". [2] They described the novel's prose as "lyrical" and "richly descriptive", and highlighted how it "ushers readers into a fascinating parallel world inhabited by appealingly quirky characters". [2]
Charlotte Sometimes is a children's novel by the English writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1969 in Britain and the United States.It is the third and best-known of three books featuring the Makepeace sisters, Charlotte and Emma, [1] sometimes known as the Aviary Hall books. [2]
Rabbit Hill is a children's novel by Robert Lawson that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1945. [1] In 1954 he wrote a sequel, The Tough Winter . Plot introduction
The novel explains the origin of Olivia Winfield (the grandmother in Flowers in the Attic), the events that cause her to become the cold, domineering mistress of Foxworth Hall, and Corinne's childhood and eventual betrayal. It is the fifth novel of the Flowers in the Attic series but considered the prequel, as the story told takes place prior ...
Son is a 2012 young adult dystopian novel by American author Lois Lowry. The fourth and final book in The Giver Quartet, the story takes place during and after the first book in the series, The Giver. The story follows Claire, the Birthmother of Gabriel, who was marked for "release" in The Giver before
Something Upstairs is about a twelve-year-old boy, Kenny Huldorf, who tells a story to Avi who had visited the school on a book tour. He moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island. He lives in a house of past events, built in 1789. Kenny's room is in the attic. One night Kenny wakes to a scraping noise in the old slave room.