Lois Lowry

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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1977
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Anastasia Krupnik

1 - Anastasia Krupnik (Nov-1979)
2 - Anastasia Again! (Nov-1981)
3 - Anastasia at Your Service (Dec-1983)
4 - Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst // Anastasia Off Her Rocker (May-1984)
5 - Anastasia on Her Own (Apr-1985)
6 - Anastasia Has the Answers (May-1986)
7 - Anastasia's Chosen Career (Nov-1987)
8 - Anastasia at This Address (May-1991)
9 - Anastasia, Absolutely (Nov-1995)

Caroline Tate

1 - The One Hundredth Thing about Caroline (1983)
2 - Switcharound (Nov-1985)

The Giver Quartet

1 - The Giver (May-1993)
2 - Gathering Blue (Oct-2000)
3 - Messenger (May-2004)
4 - Son (Oct-2012)

Gooney Bird Greene

Gooney Bird Greene (Oct-2002)
Gooney Bird and the Room Mother (Apr-2005)
Gooney the Fabulous (May-2007)
Gooney Bird Is So Absurd (Apr-2009)
Gooney Bird on the Map (Nov-2011)
Gooney Bird and All Her Charms (Jan-2014)

Sam Krupnik

All About Sam (Nov-1988)
Attaboy, Sam! (May-1992)
See You Around, Sam! (Nov-1996)
Zooman Sam (Oct-1999)

The Willoughbys

1 - The Willoughbys (Apr-2008)
2 - The Willoughbys Return (Oct-2020)

Multi-Author Series List

Dear America

Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918 (Jan-2011)

Book List in Order: 48 titles

  • A Summer to Die

    When Meg's family moves to a small house in the country, she must get used to many new things. She's annoyed about being stuck sharing a bedroom with her older sister, Molly. They have no common interests, and it's hard for Meg to hide her resentment...

  • Find a Stranger, Say Good-Bye

    Natalie Armstrong has everything: she’s smart and beautiful, has the perfect boyfriend, early acceptance to college, and a loving family. But the summer she turns seventeen, she finally decides to ask some unanswered questions: Who are her biologic...

  • Anastasia Krupnik

    Anastasia Krupnik - 1

    To Anastasia Krupnik, being ten is very confusing. For one thing, she has this awful teacher who can't understand why Anastasia doesn't capitalize or punctuate her poems. Then, there's Washburn Cummings, a very interesting sixth-grade boy who doesn't...

  • Autumn Street

    When her father leaves home to fight in World War II, Elizabeth goes with her mother and older sister to live in her grandfather's stately old house on Autumn Street. It's there that Elizabeth forms a special friendship with Tatie, the cook, and Tati...

  • Anastasia Again!

    Anastasia Krupnik - 2

    Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs....

  • The One Hundredth Thing about Caroline

    Caroline Tate - 1

    Caroline Tate and her genius brother, J.P., have a big problem on their hands! Things are never the same after Caroline finds some letters belonging to their mysterious new neighbor, Frederick Fiske. When Caroline reads about "poison" and "getting...

  • Taking Care of Terrific

    Fourteen-year-old Enid Crowley can't stand her name. When she takes a summer job babysitting young Joshua W. Cameron IV, Enid decides it's time for a change: she calls herself Cynthia, and Joshua becomes Tom Terrific. Every day they're off to Boston'...

  • Anastasia at Your Service

    Anastasia Krupnik - 3

    Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired to be a maid....

  • Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst // Anastasia Off Her Rocker

    Anastasia Krupnik - 4

    No one understands thirteen-year-old Anastasia Krupnic, least of all her parents and her little brother, Sam, who happens to be a genius. They're such an embarrassment. Why can't they be normal, like Anastasia? Then-presto! Anastasia realizes...



  • Us and Uncle Fraud

    Mysterious things begin to happen after Uncle Claude comes to stay with his sister's family....

  • Anastasia on Her Own

    Anastasia Krupnik - 5

    Her family's new, organized schedule for easy housekeeping makes Anastasia confident that she can run the household while her mother is out of town, until she hits unexpected complications....

  • Switcharound

    Caroline Tate - 2

    Caroline and J.P.'s father has asked them to come visit him and his new wife in Des Moines, Iowa. They don't really want to go, but they also don't have a say in the matter. Upon arriving, they discover they each have unexpected and unpl...

  • Anastasia Has the Answers

    Anastasia Krupnik - 6

    Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up, as her thirteenth year involves conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowed uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher....

  • Rabble Starkey

    When Rabble Starkey’s grandmother saw her for the first time, she said, “Look at them sea-gram eyes, Look at that ginger-colored hair. Lord, Lord, trouble lies ahead for the child.” So she and Rabble’s mother, Sweet-Hosanna, gave her a Bib...

  • Anastasia's Chosen Career

    Anastasia Krupnik - 7

    Anastasia Krupnik has exactly one week to work on her school assignment called "My Chosen Career." Determined to be a bookstore owner, she must first develop poise and self-confidence. So Anastasia takes the plunge and spends her life savings on a mo...

  • All About Sam

    Sam Krupnik

    Everyone knows Sam Krupnik. He's Anastasia's pesty but lovable younger brother. This is Sam's big chance to tell things exactly the way he sees them. He has his own ideas about haircuts, nursery school, getting shots, and not eating broccoli. Sam ...

  • The Woods at the End of Autumn Street

    One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. The adult world is a confusing, unfathomable picture in this sad, but humorous, story of a child learning to face life's realities. When Elizabeth goes to live in her grandfather's house in Pennsylv...

  • Number the Stars

    Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think about life before the war. But it's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching in their town. The Nazis wo...

  • The One and Only Anastasia



  • Your Move, J.P.!

    "Spontaneous, natural, and humorous." -- The Bulletin    J.P. is in love, and it’s making him do all sorts of weird things. Like using deodorant, bumping into walls, and imagining he hears serenading violins. J.P. has even forgotten his ...

  • Anastasia at This Address

    Anastasia Krupnik - 8

    Anastasia Krupnik answers a personal ad, and by stretching the truth, finds herself in quite a predicament when the special "he" wants to meet her....

  • Attaboy, Sam!

    Sam Krupnik

    Sam Krupnik is at it again. This time he wants to make a special surprise perfume for his mother's birthday. First he has to collect his mother's favorite smells in Ziploc bags. He uses an old grape juice bottle to hold everything from chicken soup t...

  • The Giver

    The Giver Quartet - 1

    The riveting, unforgettable tale that has become a modern-day classic. Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns ...

  • Anastasia, Absolutely

    Anastasia Krupnik - 9

    Irrepressible Anastasia is in junior high now and participating in the "Values" curriculum through which students learn to make moral decisions. Early one morning she hits the Cambridge streets with her pooper-scooper to walk her new dog. In her half...

  • See You Around, Sam!

    Sam Krupnik

    Sam Krupnik gets angry with his mother when she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house. He plans to run away to Alaska, where walruses have tusks that sort of look like fangs. As Sam stops at neighbors' houses to say goodbye, he gets a...

  • Stay!: Keeper's Story

    Born between a board fence and a set of trash cans, the hero of this absorbing novel by Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry is a lowly stray dog. Abandoned at an early age by his mother and separated from his siblings, he faces every challenge with his nose ...

  • Zooman Sam

    Sam Krupnik

    It's Future Job Day at Sam's nursery school, and Sam decides to dress up as a Zookeeper. But he wants to be more than that... he wants to be important, interesting, and more than ordinary: the Chief of Wonderfulness. Will he find a way to be the Chie...

  • Gathering Blue

    The Giver Quartet - 2

    Kira, an orphan with a twisted leg, lives in a world where the weak are cast aside. She fears for her future until she is spared by the all-powerful Council of Guardians. Kira is a gifted weaver and is given a task that no other community member can ...

  • Gooney Bird Greene

    Gooney Bird Greene

    There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school wearing pajamas and cowboy boots one day and a polka-dot t-shirt and tutu on another? Gooney Bird has to sit right smack in the mi...



  • The Silent Boy

    From a Newbery Medal winner, a novel of tragedy and friendship in a turn-of-the-century farm town, “narrated by a perceptive, large"hearted child.” -- Kirkus Reviews   Katy Thatcher, the bright and curious daughter of the town doctor, was ...

  • Messenger

    The Giver Quartet - 3

    For the past six years, Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man known for his special sight. Once, Village was a place that welcomed newcomers and offered hope and homes to people fleeing poverty and cruelty....

  • Gooney Bird and the Room Mother

    Gooney Bird Greene

    Gooney Bird Greene knows exactly where she likes to be: “right smack in the middle of everything.” Sure enough, her colorful fashion sense, exuberant personality, and “absolutely true” stories land her at the center of attention most of the t...

  • Gossamer

    A novel “as haunting as a dream” from the New York Times-bestselling, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Giver (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).    Where do dreams come from? What stealthy nighttime messengers are the guardians of our ...

  • Gooney the Fabulous

    Gooney Bird Greene

    Lois Lowry's Gooney Bird chapter book series is accessible and easy to read and will appeal to fans of Junie B. Jones.The iconic Gooney Bird Greene is larger than life and has a heart as big as her personality, In book three, Gooney the Fabulous, onc...

  • Shining On

    In this thoughtful and engaging collection, 11 acclaimed authors explore the highs and lows of growing up and shining on in the face of obstacles. A parent's departure, a sister's illness, a cheerleader's breakup, a family's secrets . . . these stori...

  • The Willoughbys

    The Willoughbys - 1

    Soon to be an animated film starring Ricky Gervais, Maya Rudolph, Terry Crews, Martin Short, Jane Krakowski, and Sean Cullen!

    From the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Giver and Number the Stars, comes a "hilarious" (Booklist, starred revi...

  • Gooney Bird Is So Absurd

    Gooney Bird Greene

    The fourth hilarious title in Lowis Lowry's popular Gooney Bird series! It’s a cold January at the Watertower Elementary School -- the perfect weather for Gooney Bird Greene to break out her special brain-warming hat! It's a good thing she has one....

  • Crow Call

    The two-time Newbery medalist has crafted “a loving representation of a relationship between parent and child” in post-WWII America (Publishers Weekly, starred review).This is the story of young Liz, her father, and their strained relationship. D...

  • The Birthday Ball

    Princess Patricia Priscilla is bored with her royal life and the excitement surrounding her 16th birthday ball. Doomed to endure courtship by three grotesquely unappealing noblemen, she escapes her fate--for a week. What begins as a cure for boredom ...



  • Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918

    Dear America

    In 1918, while WWI rages in Europe, Spanish Influenza ravages the United States, and Lydia Pierce sees her hometown changing as a result. Makeshift hospitals are set up in schools and churches, and Portland's streets and shops are empty. Then, the un...

  • Bless This Mouse

    A church mouse is no ordinary mouse, and Hildegarde -- the Mouse Mistress of Saint Bartholemew’s -- is no ordinary mouse leader. It falls to her to keep all the church mice safe and out of sight. But when a few parishioners report mouse sighting...

  • Gooney Bird on the Map

    Gooney Bird Greene

    Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class has a lot to celebrate in February: presidents' birthdays, Valentine's Day, and school vacation. Of course, the students are talking about their awesome vacation plans every chance they get. It can be hard to focus o...

  • Son

    The Giver Quartet - 4

    They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a society where emotions and colors didn’t exist. That she had become a Vessel at age thirteen. That she had carried a Product at age fourteen. That it ...

  • Gooney Bird and All Her Charms

    Gooney Bird Greene

    “It’s March!” Mrs. Pidgeon said as she wrote the day’s date on the chalkboard. “In like a lion, out like a lamb!” The morning bell has rung at Watertower Elementary School, and it’s time for Mrs. Pidgeon’s class to turn to page 52 ...

  • On the Horizon

    From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima....

  • The Willoughbys Return

    The Willoughbys - 2

    It's been 30 years and with rising temperatures melting icy mountain tops the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and are about to return!From living legend and Newbery medalist Lois Lowry comes a hilarious sequel to New York Times best...

  • The Windeby Puzzle

    Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive. In an utterly one-of-a-kind blend of fiction and history, a m...

  • Tree. Table. Book.

    From two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry comes this warm and resonant story of an unlikely friendship, which unfolds as a revelation on how we hold on to -- and pass on -- what matters most.The latest compelling work from the master storyteller.When...

Award-Winning Books by Lois Lowry

All About Sam
1992 Georgia Children's Book Award -- Children's Book
Anastasia Has the Answers
1989 Garden State Children's Book Award -- Children's Fiction
Attaboy, Sam!
1994 Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award -- Children's
1995 Garden State Children's Book Award -- Children's Fiction
The Giver
1994 Newbery Medal -- Children's
1995 Maine Student Book Award -- Grades 4-8
1996 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award -- Grades 9-12
1996 Garden State Teen Book Award -- Fiction (Grades 6-8)
1996 Great Stone Face Book Award -- Grades 4-6
1996 Land of Enchantment Book Award -- Children/Young Adult
1996 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award -- Grades 4-8
1996 Young Reader's Choice Award -- Grades 9-12
Gooney Bird Greene
2004 Rhode Island Children's Book Award -- Grades 3-6
Gossamer
2006 Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007) -- Silver
Number the Stars
1989 Sydney Taylor Book Award -- Older Readers
1990 Newbery Medal -- Children's
1991 Maine Student Book Award -- Grades 4-8
1992 Great Stone Face Book Award -- Grades 4-6
1992 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award -- Grades 4-8
Rabble Starkey
1987 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Fiction & Poetry
The Silent Boy
2004 Christopher Award -- Young Adult
2004 Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) -- Children/Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lois Lowry has published 48 books.

Lois Lowry does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Tree. Table. Book., was published in April 2024.

The first book by Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die, was published in May 1977.

Yes. Lois Lowry has 6 series.
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