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Number the Stars is a work of historical fiction by the American author Lois Lowry about the escape of a family of Jews from Copenhagen, Denmark, during World War II.. The story revolves around ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen, who lives with her mother, father, and sister Kirsti in Copenhagen in 1943.
Lois Ann Lowry (/ ˈ l aʊər i /; [2] née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937) is an American writer.She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey.
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards.
Stars Without Number is a science fiction role-playing game set in the year 3200. The book provides a pre-generated series of planets, but the gamemaster can also use a system of nested random tables to first create a sector in space seeded with random stars. Each star has one main planet, which the gamemaster creates, giving it two randomly ...
In the visual novel A Sky Full of Stars, the book is mentioned in dialogue in relation to a character's eyes (Amanogawa Saya) and the double star Albireo. In Shunji Iwai 's 2016 film, A Bride for Rip Van Winkle , the book is mentioned by the protagonist as being her favorite when it is shown that her nickname for a social media account is ...
2025 space launches: Uncrewed lunar missions and 1st private space station among 2025 space launches Gravitational lensing unveils historic number of distant stars. Most galaxies, including our ...
Evil Star is the second book in The Power of Five series by British author Anthony Horowitz. [1] It was published and released in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2006 by Walker Books Ltd and in the United States by Scholastic Press under the adjusted series title, The Gatekeepers.
Gathering Blue is a young adult-dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry and was published on September 25, 2000. [1] A companion book to The Giver (1993), it is set in the same future time period and universe, treats some of the same themes, and is followed by Messenger (2004) and Son (2012) in The Giver Quartet.