Lois Lowry

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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books - 6 Series
  • First Book:
    May 1977
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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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: 47 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

    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!

    Twelve-year-old Anastasia Krupnik is convinced that her family's move to the suburbs will be the beginning of the end. How can she possibly accept split-level houses with matching furniture, or mothers whose biggest worry is ring around collar? But h...

  • The One Hundredth Thing about Caroline

    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

    A long, boring summer--that's what Anastasia has to look forward to when her best friend goes off to camp. She's thrilled when old Mrs. Bellingham answers her ad for a job as a Lady's Companion. Anastasia is sure her troubles are over--she'll be busy...

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

    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

    When Uncle Claude departs after an Easter visit with the Cunningham family, he leaves a strange clue for Marcus and Louise that may have something to do with the missing silverware from the Leboff estate...

  • Anastasia on Her Own

    Help! Anastasia Krupnik's mother must organize her chaotic life. So Anastasia, who is a very organized person, and her father invent the solution to Mrs. Krupnik's problem: the Krupnik Family Nonsexist Housekeeping Schedule.



    But when M...

  • Switcharound

    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

    Humiliated.



    That's how Anastasia Krupnik feels whenever she tries to climb the ropes in gym class. How come everyone else can climb up those hateful ropes?



    Since Anastasia has decided to become a journalist, it should be...

  • 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 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

    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 obsession with...

  • Anastasia at This Address

    "SWM, 28, boyish charm, inherited wealth, looking for tall young woman, nonsmoker, to share Caribbean vacations, reruns of Casablanca, and romance." When thirteen-year-old Anastasia Krupnic sees this ad in a personal column, she decides to write back...

  • Attaboy, Sam!

    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 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

    The trouble begins when Anastasia goes to the mailbox with two packages and her new dog, Sleuth. It's there that she accidentally puts the bag of dog droppings into the mailbox instead of her mother's package. When she realizes her mistake, Anastasia...

  • See You Around, Sam!

    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

    This is the story of a dog who tells his own tale. As a pup he is separated from his mother and siblings. This unusual dog learns about living on the dangerous streets and even makes up poetry. He finds human friends, has the chance to win fame and f...

  • Zooman Sam

    Everyone's favorite little brother is back, dressed as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day.

    Sam Krupnik is all set for Future Job Day at school. He already knows that he wants to be a zookeeper when he grows up. Sam's mother and...

  • Gathering Blue

    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

    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

    Precocious Katy Thatcher comes to realize what a gentle, silent boy did for his family. He meant to help, not harm. It didn’t turn out that way.

    “The author balances humor and generosity with the obstacles and injustice of Katy’s world t...

  • Messenger

    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 likes to be right smack in the middle of everything. That's why she wants to have the lead role of Squanto in her class Thanksgiving pageant. But that role will go to whoever finds someone to be the room mother. All the parents are...

  • Gossamer

    From the two-time Newbery Award winning author of Number the Stars and The Giver, comes a novel about how even the smallest of dreams can break through the darkest of nights.
     
    Littlest One is a tiny creature slowly learning her job of givi...

  • Gooney the Fabulous

    Gooney Bird Greene has a fabulous idea after her teacher reads fables to the class. The children learn that fables are stories with animal characters that teach something important. Gooney’s fabulous idea is that each student create their own fable...

  • 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

    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

    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 thi...

  • Crow Call

    Two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry has crafted a beautiful picture book about the power of longing and the importance of reconnection between a girl and her father in post-WWII America.This is the story of young Liz, her father, and their strained ...

  • 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

    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

    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

    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

    “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

    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...

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 47 books.

Lois Lowry does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Windeby Puzzle, was published in February 2023.

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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