She is also famous for writing on controversial issues, even questioning the authority as exemplified in her book entitled The Giver quartet. In her writings, she has dug dip into complex issues such as terminal illness, racism, the Holocaust and murder among other topics that are very challenging to the teens. Lois Lowry later in 2007 received an award from the American Library Association (Margaret Edward Award), as the best contributor in writing for children.Īs a very famous children author, Lois Lowry is popular for writing about various difficult matters that touches on children. This is the highest available recognition for the writers of children’s books in the United States of America. In her appreciation as a great contributor and children writer, Lois Lowry became a finalist in 2000 and in 2004 when she was a U.S nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award that is being conducted biennially. She has so far won two Newbery medals one for the ‘Number of Stars’ in 1989 and another one titled The Giver in 1993. Lois Lowry is an American writer who is credited for an autobiography and more than thirty children’s story books. With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954 (By:Andrea Davis Pinkney)īehind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880 (By:Susan Patron)ĭown the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose (By:Susan Campbell Bartoletti)Ī City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906 (By:Judy Blundell) Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 (By:Deborah Hopkinson) Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota (By:Marion Dane Bauer)Īll the Stars in the Sky (By:Megan McDonald) Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson (By:Ann Turner) Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968 (By:) Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846, (By:Sherry Garland) The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl (By:Ann Turner)Ī Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 (By:Susan Campbell Bartoletti) My Heart is on the Ground (By:Ann Rinaldi) Standing in the Light (By:Mary Pope Osborne)Ī Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence (By:Sherry Garland) I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 (By:Joyce Hansen)ĭreams in the Golden Country (By:Kathryn Lasky) The Winter of Red Snow (By:Kristiana Gregory)

A Journey to the New World (By:Kathryn Lasky)

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