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Her newest book, ON THE HORIZON, is a collection of memories and images from Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and post-war Japan.Ī mother and grandmother, Ms. Several books have been adapted to film and stage, and THE GIVER has become an opera. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award. Lois received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. She has received countless honors, including the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader’s Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She is the author of over forty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned her attention to writing. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. Let’s take inspiration from this beautiful story and create a better world for everyone.⁠ You won’t be able to put down the book. Filled with danger, bravery, and courage, Lois Lowry reminds us that when people stand together, anything is possible. Number the Stars may be a historical-fiction book, but its message of strength and unity is timeless. Annemarie tells us how the Danish Resistance heroically relocated almost all of the Danish-Jewish population, 7,000 Jews, across the sea to Sweden and how she and her family courageously helped smuggle Ellen’s family to safety.

The German soldiers are suspicious of Ellen because of her dark hair Annemarie and her sister have blonde hair. During World War II, the German troops would take Jewish people from their homes and send them to concentration camps, and now they are coming for the Jews in Denmark.

It’s 1943 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her family take in her Jewish best friend, Ellen Rosen, and they pretend she is part of their family- they want to help keep Ellen safe. Lois Lowry is the author of over forty books for young adults, for which she has won many awards. Number the Stars won the 1990 Newbery Medal.