Lois Lowry
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My name is Lydia. This is my story. . . .In 1918, as the Great War rages in Europe, the
Spanish influenza tears a brutal path across the United
States, leaving devastation in its wake. Suddenly, eleven year-
old Lydia Pierce and her older brother, Daniel, find
themselves orphans of the flu, and are taken by their
grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at
Sabbathday Lake. Thrust into the Shakers' unfamiliar
way of life, Lydia, a fiercely...
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Reading and conversation with the treasured author of Number the Stars, The Giver, and many other favorite works for kids and teens. Special guest Sean Astin (The Goonies, The Lord of the Rings) will join Lowry for a celebration of The Newbery Medal-winning Number the Stars 25th anniversary. He and his wife have purchased the film rights and are proud to be adapting Number the Stars for the screen. Fellow author Lauren Oliver (Panic, Delirium) leads...
45) The Wouldbegoods
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The Bastable children are up to yet more adventures in this sequel to The Story of the Treasure Seekers-a delightful classic that will charm children and adults alike The Bastable children have been banished to the country in disgrace-following a particularly damaging reenaction of a jungle scene featuring expensive stuffed animals and a garden hose. The gang of six, Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H.O.), decides to turn over...
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In celebration of Brown University's 250th anniversary, fifty remarkable, prizewinning writers and artists who went to Brown provide unique stories-many published for the first time-about their adventures on College Hill. Funny, poignant, subversive, and nostalgic, the essays, comics, and poems in this collection paint a vivid picture of college life, from the 1950s to the present, at one of America's most interesting universities.