New Releases by Lois Lowry

The tragedy of war deeply affects children. As with adults, it brings out the bravery in many youngsters. This moving novel depicts a ten-year-old Danish girl who confronts all kinds of adversity when her best friend is threatened by the Nazis.

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

Es difícil para Meg de trece años no tener envidia de su hermana. Molly ya tiene su futuro resuelto, ha escogido sus metas sin mucha dificultad, mientras que meg, decidida e insegura al mismo tiempo. A veces se enfada sin motivo, y a veces se siente desagraciada y triste por todo. Sus sentimientos no hacen más fácil que acepte la extraña enfermedad de Molly y su eventual muerte.

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

The tragedy of war deeply affects children. As with adults, it inspires courage in many youngsters. This moving novel depicts a ten-year-old Danish girl who confronts all kinds of adversity when her best friend is threatened by the Nazis. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

La adolescencia; ese período en el que ningún consejo de adulto será suficiente; la etapa de nuestras vidas que se llena de preguntas sin respuestas, de dolor intenso y contradicciones. El momento durante el cual terminamos culpando a cualquiera de lo mal que lo estamos pasando, en fin ... Anastasia está viviendo su adolescencia. La niña está convencida de que sus dos padres son la causa de todos sus problemas existenciales. Se ha vuelto hipercrítica sobre la postura extremista, despreocupada o muy entrometida, que sus progenitores tienen con ella. Las circunstancias le harán comprender que el origen de todo aquel conflicto no es externo. Anastasia descubrirá que las soluciones de esa etapa deberán ser buscadas por ella misma. EL lector se divertirá muchísimo con las ocurrencias muy originales que tendrá la protagonista, para salirse airosa de situaciones difíciles.

Separated early in life from his mother and siblings, Keeper tells of his adventures with various human masters and his continual search for his little sister.

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

Dans le monde où vit Jonas, les inégalités n''existent pas. L''harmonie règne dans les cellules familiales constituées avec soin par le comité des sages. Dans la communauté, une seule personne détient le savoir. Lui seul sait comment était le monde, des générations plus tôt, quand il y avait encore des animaux et des gens amoureux.

Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the poem she is writing for their mother''s birthday, but his own efforts to create a special perfume are disastrous.

Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend''s wedding.

"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 chess, too caught up in pondering the beauty of Angela Patricia Galsworthy, a girl who has just moved to town from London and has the most charming British accent. J.P. will do anything to impress Angela, even lie about having a fatal disease called triple framosis. From there, his lies grow bigger and bigger and bigger, until he can barely keep them all straight. What’s a poor lovesick boy to do?

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 thinks a lot about being bigger and stronger, about secret codes and show-and-tell. Make way for your little brother, Anastasia. Here for the first time is Sam Krupnik''s life story. What a life!

Anastasia''s seventh-grade science project becomes almost more than she can handle, but her brother Sam, age three, and a bust of Freud, aid her nobly.

A woman looks back on her childhood and tries to make sense of the prejudices and confusions that were a part of everyday life.

In her seventh adventure, the irrepressible Anastasia decides that charm school is the answer to her career dilemmas.

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 Mrs. Krupnik goes to California on a ten-day business trip, Anastasia finds that the problem isn''t solved at all. It''s hard to stick to a schedule that doesn''t leave room for her little brother, Sam, who''s come down with the chicken pox, and her father''s former girlfriend, who''s invited herself to dinner. How is Anastasia supposed to cope with these interruptions when she''s planning her first dream-date dinner for Steve Harvey? It''s a cinch. As long as she sticks to the Krupnik Romantic Dinner Week Schedule, what could possibly go wrong?

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.

Elizabeth is forced to grow up when her father goes to fight in World War II. Her family moves in with her grandfather, and a special friend is struck by tragedy. An ALA Notable Children''s Book.

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

Taking her overprotected young charge to the public park to broaden his horizons, fourteen-year-old baby sitter Enid enjoys unexpected friendships with a black saxophonist and a bag lady until she is charged with kidnapping.

"Warm, appealing, and cleverly devised." —Booklist The most useless and obnoxious thing in the world to Caroline Tate is her older brother, J.P., the genius with the photographic memory. But now, for the first time, she needs him. She needs him because upstairs in the fifth-floor apartment of their building is a mystery man who plans to commit a terrible crime—and she and J.P. are the targets! Luckily, Caroline''s best friend, Stacy, wants to be an investigative journalist, so she knows how to gather evidence. Together, Caroline, Stacy, and J.P. set out to catch this criminal red-handed before he can pull off his dastardly deed!

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 her new home brings many surprises, notto mention a cute boy who lives down the street. Is it possible that surburbia has more to offer than Anastasia had expected?

Award-winning and best-selling author Lois Lowry explores issues surrounding adoption in this poignant novel. 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 biological parents and why did they give her up when she was born? These questions take her on a journey from the deep woods of Maine to the streets of New York City, from the pages of old phone books and a tattered yearbook photo to the realization that she might actually meet her biological mother face-to-face.

Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister Molly''s beauty and popularity, and these feelings make it difficult for her to cope with Molly''s illness and death.