She tells autobiographical, seemingly magical tales about her life. She’s confident and always the center of attention. She starts the book by transferring into a new second-grade class. Gooney Bird Greene is the first in a series of children’s novels following a second-grade girl, Gooney Bird Greene. After Jonas is selected to be the new “Receiver of Memory,” he learns more about his community’s darker sides. There, the elderly and infirm are “released” or killed, and no one experiences any real emotion, negative or positive. It follows the character of Jonas, a young boy whose part of an unnamed dystopian community that’s locked itself off from the rest of the world. The Giver is Lowry’s best-known novel and one of her most creative. Her books often touch on difficult subjects like the Holocaust, racism, and illness.Lois Lowry’s son, Grey, was killed in a fighter plane crash in 1995.She published her first book when she was forty years old.Lowry’s parents originally wanted to name her “Cena” to honor her Norwegian grandmother and heritage.
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