New Releases by Lois Lowry

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.

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.

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-awake groggy state Anastasia mixes up the two plastic bags she''s carrying: one containing letters to be deposited in the mailbox for her mother and the other with her responsible morning gatherings. She''s too embarrassed to call the post office to confess and she begins to feel more and more guilty and scared as she notices some intense local police activity in the vicinity of the mailbox. What will Anastasia do?

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.

- Es-tu courageuse, petite Annemarie ? demande Oncle Henrik à sa nièce de dix ans. La scène se passe en 1943, et pour Annemarie Johansen, la vie à Copenhague est un mélange compliqué de vie familiale, d''école, de rationnement alimentaire et d''occupation allemande. Le courage semble une vertu lointaine - réservée aux chevaliers tueurs de dragons, héros des légendes qu''elle conte, le soir, à sa petite sueur Kirsti. Au moment où les nazis commencent à organiser la déportation des juifs du Danemark, les Johansen recueillent la meilleure amie d''Annemarie, Ellen Rosen, désormais présentée comme faisant partie de la famille. Ellen et Annemarie doivent réfléchir très vite lorsque les soldats perquisitionnent en pleine nuit et demandent pourquoi Ellen n''est pas blonde comme ses sœurs. À travers les yeux d''Annemarie, nous voyons comment la résistance danoise réussit à faire traverser le bras de mer les séparant de la Suède à la quasi-totalité de la communauté juive, qui compte alors près de sept mille personnes. Dans ce récit qui montre le courage d''une nation, Lois Lowry nous rappelle que la dignité humaine est une valeur qu''on peut sauvegarder même dans un monde défiguré par la peur et par la guerre.

Sam Krupnik sets out to concoct a special perfume as a surprise for his mother''s birthday, a fragrance that is to be made up of all her favorite smells.

In her latest adventure, thirteen-year-old Anastasia Krupnik tries to answer some of life''s big question. Why is it that everyone else seems able to climb the ropes in gym class? And why are her parents'' friends--the Bellinghams--getting a divorce? Includes a 36-copy dump. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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?

The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik''s younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler.

Twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey''s mother is hired by Mrs. Bigelow to look after her children while she''s in the hospital. Living in that huge house, Rabble feels she''s finally found a home. But soon she and her mother must question what''s really best for them. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Paul Moreaux, the thirteen-year-old son of French Canadian immigrants, inherits the ability to become invisible, but this power soon leads to death and destruction.

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

Mysterious things begin to happen after Uncle Claude comes to stay with his sister''s family. Is Uncle Claude a thief, an imposter, or just a dream weaver?

"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!

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.