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Because of Winn-Dixie is a 2000 children's novel written by Kate DiCamillo. It was adapted as a 2005 family film directed by Wayne Wang, produced by Walden Media and Twentieth Century Fox, and starring AnnaSophia Robb as Opal Buloni.[1]

A 10-year-old girl named India Opal Buloni has just moved to a trailer park in the small town of Naomi, Florida, with her father, who is known as The Preacher because he preaches at the local church. Her mother, Benjean-Megan, abandoned them when Opal was three. She describes the preacher as a turtle, always sticking his head into his shell, and never wanting to come out into the real world. This is most likely because of how sad he is about her mother, with whom he is still in love.

While in the supermarket, Opal sees a scruffy dog wrecking the store and decides to take him home, naming him Winn-Dixie after the supermarket chain. Miss Franny Block, a librarian, shares great stories about her past, including one about her great-grandfather, whose family members died while he was fighting for the South in the Civil War. He invented Litmus Lozenge candies, which tasted like root beer and strawberry but included a secret ingredient-melancholy. Anyone who tasted the candies tasted sweetness mixed with sadness. Opal learns that her sour-faced neighbor, Amanda Wilkinson, lost her younger brother Carson when he drowned in the town lake the previous summer. She vows to be nicer to her from then on.

Opal finds a dog collar that she wants to buy for Winn-Dixie, but she has no money and decides to work for the pet store to earn it. Otis, a worker at Gertrude's Pets, is unwilling to hire Opal as a cleaning girl, but she comes to work. When Opal and Winn-Dixie step into the store, the animals panic when they see the big dog. Otis plays his guitar to calm them. Opal learns that Otis once went to jail for battering a police officer who tried to confiscate his guitar after the officer told Otis he could not play music on the street because he was disturbing others.

While Opal is riding her bike and Winn-Dixie runs ahead, they meet a woman named Gloria Dump. She and Opal become good friends. Opal and Gloria, a recovering alcoholic, decide to host a small party, inspired by the one in Gone With the Wind, inviting everyone they know. In the process, Opal becomes a friend to her former enemies, the brothers Stevie and Dunlap Dewberry. She also invites Amanda Wilkinson and Sweetie Pie Thomas, a younger girl who has no pet, and so has fallen in love with Winn-Dixie. Otis and Miss Franny Block are also invited.

Opal and Gloria set up everything outdoors, but it starts to rain, so they bring the party indoors. Opal can't find Winn-Dixie anywhere, even after searching the town. Ten minutes later she returns to Gloria's home to discover that Winn-Dixie has been there all the time, hiding because he is scared of storms. The book ends with Otis playing his guitar and everyone singing one of The Preacher's songs.

Because of Winn-Dixie was the winner of a Newbery Honor distinction the year after publication.[2] In 2000, the book won the Josette Frank Award,[3] and in 2003 won the Mark Twain Award.[4]

In 2007 the U.S. National Education Association listed Winn-Dixie as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children", based on an online poll.[5] In 2012 it was ranked number 20 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by School Library Journal, the first of three books by DiCamillo in the Top 100.[6]

A musical based on the novel was announced in 2011 and debuted at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre on December 5, 2013.[7] John Tartaglia directed the play while Nell Benjamin wrote the book and lyrics and Duncan Sheik wrote the music.[8][9] The musical was a part of Goodspeed Musicals' 2019 season, playing from June to September, and was directed by John Rando.[10][11]

1. ^ "Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) - Wayne Wang | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie" - via www.allmovie.com.

2. ^ "Newbery Medal winners".

3. ^ Hare, Peter. "Awards". Archived from the original on December 2, 2009.

4. ^ "Missouri Association of School Librarians". Missouri Association of School Librarians.

5. ^ National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".

6. ^ Bird, Elizabeth (July 7, 2012). "Top 100 Chapter Book Poll Results". A Fuse #8 Production. Blog. School Library Journal (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com). Archived from the original on July 13, 2012.

7. ^ Maxwell, Stephanie (December 26, 2013). "Off The Record: Because of Winn Dixie a heartfelt holiday musical". Arkansas Online.

8. ^ Cox, Gordon (December 16, 2011). "'Winn-Dixie' aims for Broadway". Variety.

9. ^ Rizzo, Frank (July 19, 2019). "Regional Theater Review: 'Because of Winn Dixie,' the Musical". Variety.

10. ^ Lefkowitz, Andy (September 25, 2018). "Nell Benjamin & Duncan Sheik's Because of Winn Dixie Musical Set for Goodspeed's 2019 Season". Broadway.com.

11. ^ Gans, Andrew (July 22, 2019). "Read Reviews for Because of Winn Dixie, the New Musical by Duncan Sheik and Nell Benjamin". Playbill.

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The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's novel by E. B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis, a trumpeter swan born without a voice who overcomes this difficulty by learning to play a trumpet in order to impress a beautiful swan named Serena.

In Canada during the spring of 1968, the cob (the name for an adult male swan) and the pen (the name for an adult female swan), both trumpeter swans, build their summer nest on a small island in a pond. The swans are worried when Sam Beaver, an 11-year-old boy on a camping trip with his father, begins coming to the lake every day to watch them; the cob believes that human boys are dangerous. One day while the pen steps away from her eggs to stretch her legs, a fox slips up behind her. Sam chases the fox away, saving both the female and her eggs. After this incident, the swans begin to trust him. After the hatching of their cygnets, the cob proudly leads his brood to Sam to introduce them. The cygnets each chirp at Sam in greeting, except for the youngest who is named Louis and is unable to chirp but pulls Sam's shoelace instead. The adult swans gradually realize that Louis is mute.

The adults grow increasingly concerned about Louis, worrying that he will not be able to find a mate if he cannot trumpet like all the other swans. Louis's father promises to find a way for him to communicate. At the end of summer, the swan family flies to the winter refuge, Red Rock Lakes in Montana. Louis decides he should learn to read and write in order to communicate, and flies away from the refuge to visit Sam Beaver. Sam takes his swan friend to school with him the next morning. Louis turns out to be a natural at reading and writing, and Sam buys him a portable blackboard and chalk so he can communicate. Unfortunately, because the other swans cannot read, Louis is still lonely.

When Louis returns to the Red Rock Lakes, he falls in love with a young swan, Serena, but cannot attract her attention. Louis's father is aware that trumpeter swans are named after the human musical instrument and becomes determined to acquire a trumpet as a substitute "voice" for Louis. The cob crashes through the window of a music store in Billings, Montana and steals a brass trumpet on a cord. By the time Louis learns to effectively play the trumpet, Serena has migrated north. Instead of accompanying his family north where he might have to face Serena again, Louis visits Sam on his ranch and explains that he feels guilty about the stolen trumpet. Sam suggests that Louis should get a job so he can pay the store for the trumpet and the damaged window. He helps Louis find a position as camp bugler at Camp Kookooskoos, the boys' camp Sam attends. Louis convinces Sam to split one of his webbed feet with a razor blade, making "fingers" so that he can play more notes.

Over the course of the summer, Louis plays taps, reveille, and mess call, and composes a love song for Serena. He also receives a Lifesaving Medal for rescuing a drowning camper. At the end of the summer, he has earned $100, which he carries in a waterproof pouch around his neck along with his slate, chalk, medal, and trumpet. Sam suggests that Louis can get a job with the Swan Boats in Boston. Louis flies across country and becomes an instant success, with a salary of $100 per week and a private suite in the Ritz Hotel.

A Philadelphia nightclub offers Louis a higher salary, $500 per week. He leaves Boston and takes up temporary residence at the Philadelphia Zoo. The zookeeper promises that because Louis is only a guest, he will not be pinioned (have a wing tip cut off to prevent escape) like all the other swans at the zoo. One stormy night, Serena, blown off course, falls into the Zoo's Bird Lake. Louis serenades her by playing " Beautiful Dreamer" on his trumpet, and she falls in love with him, impressed by his song and the numerous possessions hanging around his neck. When the zookeepers spot Serena, they try to clip her wings, and Louis attacks them. He convinces the Head Man to postpone the operation for a short while and sends a telegram to Sam, asking for help. Sam goes to Philadelphia and strikes a deal with the Head Man: in every clutch of cygnets, there is always one that needs special care, just as Louis did in his own family. If the Head Man will let Louis and Serena go free, they will donate one of their cygnets to the zoo every year.

Louis and Serena fly back to the Red Rock Lakes. Now intending to live the rest of his life among other swans, he no longer needs his slate. Louis writes an apology on the slate and gives it and the money bag to his father, who flies back to the music store in Billings. Afraid that the swan will destroy another window, the storekeeper shoots the cob in the shoulder, but is amazed to find the note and the money, which amounts to several times the cost of both the stolen trumpet and the window. Because the cob is a protected species, he is taken to a wildlife veterinarian, where his injury is treated. When he is recovered, he flies back to the Red Rock Lakes to rejoin his family, including Louis and Serena.

Many years later, when Sam is about 20 years old, he is again camping in Canada when he hears the sound of a trumpet playing across the lake and knows it must be Louis. He writes in his journal:

"Tonight I heard Louis's horn. My father heard it, too. The wind was right, and I could hear the notes of taps, just as darkness fell. There is nothing in all the world I like better than the trumpet of the swan."

The book received a strongly positive review by John Updike in The New York Times, in which he said "While not quite so sprightly as Stuart Little, and less rich in personalities and incident than Charlotte's Web - that paean to barnyard life by a city humorist turned farmer - The Trumpet of the Swan has superior qualities of its own; it is the most spacious and serene of the three, the one most imbued with the author's sense of the precious instinctual heritage represented by wild nature"

In the category Children's Books, The Trumpet of the Swan was a finalist the National Book Awards 1971, losing out to Lloyd Alexander's The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian.

Because of its success, The Trumpet of the Swan had a few adaptations.

An unabridged reading of the book by author White was once audio recorded and has since been published as an audiobook.

In 1972, a piece by composer Benjamin Lees based on The Trumpet of the Swan was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra (an orchestra with which Louis is mentioned as giving a guest performance).

An animated film based on the book was made in 2001 by Rich Animation Studios, released by Nest Family Entertainment and distributed by TriStar Pictures.

A "novel symphony for actors and orchestra" was adapted from the book in 2011 by Marsha Norman with music composed and conducted by Jason Robert Brown. The production starred John Lithgow, Kathy Bates, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Mandy Moore, James Naughton, and Martin Short. The production has been published on CD and by direct download.

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This book was really good. You should definitely read it. You probably will like it a lot. 4.5/5 stars

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This was a great book. I definitely recommend it for incoming 3rd graders. I enjoyed the book and to make it better, after you read the book you can watch the movie. Even though I'm saying all of this, it's not my favorite book. But I did still enjoy it. Just to say, Kate DiCamillo is not my favorite author. I rate this book 4 stars.

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Because of Winn-Dixie is a 2000 children's novel written by Kate DiCamillo. It was adapted as a 2005 family film directed by Wayne Wang, produced by Walden Media and Twentieth Century Fox, and starring AnnaSophia Robb as Opal Buloni.[1]

A 10-year-old girl named India Opal Buloni has just moved to a trailer park in the small town of Naomi, Florida, with her father, who is known as The Preacher because he preaches at the local church. Her mother, Benjean-Megan, abandoned them when Opal was three. She describes the preacher as a turtle, always sticking his head into his shell, and never wanting to come out into the real world. This is most likely because of how sad he is about her mother, with whom he is still in love.

While in the supermarket, Opal sees a scruffy dog wrecking the store and decides to take him home, naming him Winn-Dixie after the supermarket chain. Miss Franny Block, a librarian, shares great stories about her past, including one about her great-grandfather, whose family members died while he was fighting for the South in the Civil War. He invented Litmus Lozenge candies, which tasted like root beer and strawberry but included a secret ingredient-melancholy. Anyone who tasted the candies tasted sweetness mixed with sadness. Opal learns that her sour-faced neighbor, Amanda Wilkinson, lost her younger brother Carson when he drowned in the town lake the previous summer. She vows to be nicer to her from then on.

Opal finds a dog collar that she wants to buy for Winn-Dixie, but she has no money and decides to work for the pet store to earn it. Otis, a worker at Gertrude's Pets, is unwilling to hire Opal as a cleaning girl, but she comes to work. When Opal and Winn-Dixie step into the store, the animals panic when they see the big dog. Otis plays his guitar to calm them. Opal learns that Otis once went to jail for battering a police officer who tried to confiscate his guitar after the officer told Otis he could not play music on the street because he was disturbing others.

While Opal is riding her bike and Winn-Dixie runs ahead, they meet a woman named Gloria Dump. She and Opal become good friends. Opal and Gloria, a recovering alcoholic, decide to host a small party, inspired by the one in Gone With the Wind, inviting everyone they know. In the process, Opal becomes a friend to her former enemies, the brothers Stevie and Dunlap Dewberry. She also invites Amanda Wilkinson and Sweetie Pie Thomas, a younger girl who has no pet, and so has fallen in love with Winn-Dixie. Otis and Miss Franny Block are also invited.

Opal and Gloria set up everything outdoors, but it starts to rain, so they bring the party indoors. Opal can't find Winn-Dixie anywhere, even after searching the town. Ten minutes later she returns to Gloria's home to discover that Winn-Dixie has been there all the time, hiding because he is scared of storms. The book ends with Otis playing his guitar and everyone singing one of The Preacher's songs.

Because of Winn-Dixie was the winner of a Newbery Honor distinction the year after publication.[2] In 2000, the book won the Josette Frank Award,[3] and in 2003 won the Mark Twain Award.[4]

In 2007 the U.S. National Education Association listed Winn-Dixie as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children", based on an online poll.[5] In 2012 it was ranked number 20 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by School Library Journal, the first of three books by DiCamillo in the Top 100.[6]

A musical based on the novel was announced in 2011 and debuted at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre on December 5, 2013.[7] John Tartaglia directed the play while Nell Benjamin wrote the book and lyrics and Duncan Sheik wrote the music.[8][9] The musical was a part of Goodspeed Musicals' 2019 season, playing from June to September, and was directed by John Rando.[10][11]

1. ^ "Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) - Wayne Wang | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie" - via www.allmovie.com.

2. ^ "Newbery Medal winners".

3. ^ Hare, Peter. "Awards". Archived from the original on December 2, 2009.

4. ^ "Missouri Association of School Librarians". Missouri Association of School Librarians.

5. ^ National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".

6. ^ Bird, Elizabeth (July 7, 2012). "Top 100 Chapter Book Poll Results". A Fuse #8 Production. Blog. School Library Journal (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com). Archived from the original on July 13, 2012.

7. ^ Maxwell, Stephanie (December 26, 2013). "Off The Record: Because of Winn Dixie a heartfelt holiday musical". Arkansas Online.

8. ^ Cox, Gordon (December 16, 2011). "'Winn-Dixie' aims for Broadway". Variety.

9. ^ Rizzo, Frank (July 19, 2019). "Regional Theater Review: 'Because of Winn Dixie,' the Musical". Variety.

10. ^ Lefkowitz, Andy (September 25, 2018). "Nell Benjamin & Duncan Sheik's Because of Winn Dixie Musical Set for Goodspeed's 2019 Season". Broadway.com.

11. ^ Gans, Andrew (July 22, 2019). "Read Reviews for Because of Winn Dixie, the New Musical by Duncan Sheik and Nell Benjamin". Playbill.

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I think this was a great book I recommend this book if you love history.This book is about the Nazi invasion.

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Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned her attention to writing. She is the author of more than forty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Several books have been adapted to film and stage, and THE GIVER has become an opera. Her newest book, ON THE HORIZON, is a collection of memories and images from Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and post-war Japan. A mother and grandmother, Ms. Lowry divides her time between Maine and Florida. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com

author interview

A CONVERSATION WITH LOIS LOWRY ABOUT THE GIVER

Q. When did you know you wanted to become a writer?

A. I cannot remember ever not wanting to be a writer.

Q. What inspired you to write The Giver?

A. Kids always ask what inspired me to write a particular book or how did I get an idea for a particular book, and often it's very easy to answer that because books like the Anastasia books come from a specific thing; some little event triggers an idea. And some, like Number the Stars, rely on real history. But a book like The Giver is a much more complicated book, and therefore it comes from much more complicated places-and many of them are probably things that I don't even recognize myself anymore, if I ever did. So it's not an easy question to answer.

I will say that the whole concept of memory is one that interests me a great deal. I'm not sure why that is, but I've always been fascinated by the thought of what memory is and what it does and how it works and what we learn from it. And so I think probably that interest of my own and that particular subject was the origin, one of many, of The Giver.

Q. How did you decide what Jonas should take on his journey?

A. Why does Jonas take what he does on his journey? He doesn't have much time when he sets out. He originally plans to make the trip farther along in time, and he plans to prepare for it better. But then, because of circumstances, he has to set out in a very hasty fashion. So what he chooses is out of necessity. He takes food because he needs to survive. He takes the bicycle because he needs to hurry and the bike is faster than legs. And he takes the baby because he is going out to create a future. Babies-and children-always represent the future. Jonas takes the baby, Gabriel, because he loves him and wants to save him, but he takes the baby also in order to begin again with a new life.

Q. When you wrote the ending, were you afraid some readers would want more details or did you want to leave the ending open to individual interpretation?

A. Many kids want a more specific ending to The Giver. Some write, or ask me when they see me, to spell it out exactly. And I don't do that. And the reason is because The Giver is many things to many different people. People bring to it their own complicated beliefs and hopes and dreams and fears and all of that. So I don't want to put my own feelings into it, my own beliefs, and ruin that for people who create their own endings in their minds.

Q. Is it an optimistic ending? Does Jonas survive?

A. I will say that I find it an optimistic ending. How could it not be an optimistic ending, a happy ending, when that house is there with its lights on and music is playing? So I'm always kind of surprised and disappointed when some people tell me that they think the boy and the baby just die. I don't think they die. What form their new life takes is something I like people to figure out for themselves. And each person will give it a different ending. I think they're out there somewhere and I think that their life has changed and their life is happy, and I would like to think that's true for the people they left behind as well.

Q. In what way is your book Gathering Blue a companion to The Giver?

A. Gathering Blue postulates a world of the future, as The Giver does. I simply created a different kind of world, one that had regressed instead of leaping forward technologically as the world of The Giver has. It was fascinating to explore the savagery of such a world. I began to feel that maybe it coexisted with Jonas's world . . . and that therefore Jonas could be a part of it in a tangential way. So there is a reference to a boy with light eyes at the end of Gathering Blue. Originally I thought he could be either Jonas or not, as the reader chose. But since then I have published two more books-Messenger, and Son-which complete The Giver Quartet and make clear that the light-eyed boy is, indeed. Jonas. In the book Son readers will find out what became of all their favorite characters: Jonas, Gabe, and Kira as well, from Gathering Blue. And there are some new characters-most especially Claire, who is fourteen at the beginning of Son- whom I hope they will grow to love.

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I loved this book! I think it was a great way of introducing world war ll to fourth graders. I rate this book a 4.5 star rating

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Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned her attention to writing. She is the author of more than forty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Several books have been adapted to film and stage, and THE GIVER has become an opera. Her newest book, ON THE HORIZON, is a collection of memories and images from Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and post-war Japan. A mother and grandmother, Ms. Lowry divides her time between Maine and Florida. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com

author interview

A CONVERSATION WITH LOIS LOWRY ABOUT THE GIVER

Q. When did you know you wanted to become a writer?

A. I cannot remember ever not wanting to be a writer.

Q. What inspired you to write The Giver?

A. Kids always ask what inspired me to write a particular book or how did I get an idea for a particular book, and often it's very easy to answer that because books like the Anastasia books come from a specific thing; some little event triggers an idea. And some, like Number the Stars, rely on real history. But a book like The Giver is a much more complicated book, and therefore it comes from much more complicated places-and many of them are probably things that I don't even recognize myself anymore, if I ever did. So it's not an easy question to answer.

I will say that the whole concept of memory is one that interests me a great deal. I'm not sure why that is, but I've always been fascinated by the thought of what memory is and what it does and how it works and what we learn from it. And so I think probably that interest of my own and that particular subject was the origin, one of many, of The Giver.

Q. How did you decide what Jonas should take on his journey?

A. Why does Jonas take what he does on his journey? He doesn't have much time when he sets out. He originally plans to make the trip farther along in time, and he plans to prepare for it better. But then, because of circumstances, he has to set out in a very hasty fashion. So what he chooses is out of necessity. He takes food because he needs to survive. He takes the bicycle because he needs to hurry and the bike is faster than legs. And he takes the baby because he is going out to create a future. Babies-and children-always represent the future. Jonas takes the baby, Gabriel, because he loves him and wants to save him, but he takes the baby also in order to begin again with a new life.

Q. When you wrote the ending, were you afraid some readers would want more details or did you want to leave the ending open to individual interpretation?

A. Many kids want a more specific ending to The Giver. Some write, or ask me when they see me, to spell it out exactly. And I don't do that. And the reason is because The Giver is many things to many different people. People bring to it their own complicated beliefs and hopes and dreams and fears and all of that. So I don't want to put my own feelings into it, my own beliefs, and ruin that for people who create their own endings in their minds.

Q. Is it an optimistic ending? Does Jonas survive?

A. I will say that I find it an optimistic ending. How could it not be an optimistic ending, a happy ending, when that house is there with its lights on and music is playing? So I'm always kind of surprised and disappointed when some people tell me that they think the boy and the baby just die. I don't think they die. What form their new life takes is something I like people to figure out for themselves. And each person will give it a different ending. I think they're out there somewhere and I think that their life has changed and their life is happy, and I would like to think that's true for the people they left behind as well.

Q. In what way is your book Gathering Blue a companion to The Giver?

A. Gathering Blue postulates a world of the future, as The Giver does. I simply created a different kind of world, one that had regressed instead of leaping forward technologically as the world of The Giver has. It was fascinating to explore the savagery of such a world. I began to feel that maybe it coexisted with Jonas's world . . . and that therefore Jonas could be a part of it in a tangential way. So there is a reference to a boy with light eyes at the end of Gathering Blue. Originally I thought he could be either Jonas or not, as the reader chose. But since then I have published two more books-Messenger, and Son-which complete The Giver Quartet and make clear that the light-eyed boy is, indeed. Jonas. In the book Son readers will find out what became of all their favorite characters: Jonas, Gabe, and Kira as well, from Gathering Blue. And there are some new characters-most especially Claire, who is fourteen at the beginning of Son- whom I hope they will grow to love.

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It is a good book because it is good. It is good because it teaches lots of good lessons. It also is a good book its self.

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I do not really like this book but it is a good cover I rate cover 5/5 the real book 3.5/5

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Here is a clever blend of humor, math wizardry, and business know-how. As it captures the one-of-a-kind bond between brother and sister, this poignant novel also subtly explores how arguments can escalate beyond anyone's intent.

For a full hour, he poured lemonade. The world is a thirsty place, he thought as he nearly emptied his fourth pitcher of the day. And I am the Lemonade King.

Evan Treski is people-smart. He's good at talking with people, even grownups. His younger sister Jessie, on the other hand, is math-smart-but not especially good at understanding people. She knows that feelings are her weakest subject.

With just five days left of summer vacation, Evan and Jessie launch an all-out war to see who can sell the most lemonade before school starts. As the battleground heats up, there really is no telling who will win-and even more important, if their fight will ever end.

The six books in this fun-to-read series are:

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Amazon.com: The Lemonade War (The Lemonade War Series, 1): 9780547237657: Davies, Jacqueline, Davies, Jacqueline: Books

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I read this with my class. This book really good. It taught me a lot about Pearl Harbor

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Looking at the cover of this book, it may seem interesting but it's not good. I definitely don't like it. I think my classmates agree with me. The book was kind of boring and not something I really enjoyed. It wasn't a book that I was excited about and wanted to read ahead. If I were you, I'd save my time and read something else. I rate this book 2 and a half stars.

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This is an amazing book for dog lovers.This book was one of my favorites and I hope its one of yours to.

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Shiloh (The Shiloh Quartet) [Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Shiloh (The Shiloh Quartet)

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I liked this book because there was not much boring parts and everything was very exciting, this is good because it made me want to read on when we had to stop.overall i'd give this book a 10/10

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Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel. World War II is raging everywhere else, and it's all anyone can talk about-but so far, the United States has remained neutral. For Frank and Stanley, that means more time to daydream about becoming comic book creators. They've made up their own superhero in the mold of new characters like Superman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman, and with Stanley's drawing skills and Frank's writing skills, they're sure they'll get their own comic published one day.

And then everything explodes.

Frank and Stanley are touring the battleship USS Utah when planes roar overhead, dropping bombs and firing machine guns. Surprised sailors scramble to respond, and as Frank and Stanley take cover they finally understand what's happening: it's a Japanese sneak attack! The United States wouldn't go to war, so the war has come to them.

The boys fight to make their way home amid the chaos and carnage, but disaster and danger are everywhere-from torpedoes and bullets to the shocking cruelty of their former friends and neighbors. Because Stanley's mom is Japanese American, which makes her, and him, "the enemy" in most people's eyes. And try as he might, Frank can't truly understand what his best friend is going through.

If Frank and Stanley make it through this infamous day, can their friendship-and their dreams-survive? Or has everything they know and love been destroyed?

Scholastic | February 6, 2024 | Ages 8 and Up

Gratz does his usual splendid job of creating the visceral drama of battle alongside fully realized characters.

-Booklist - STARRED REVIEW

A gripping, well-researched account of courage and friendship.

-Publishers Weekly

A propulsive wartime story with an earnest protagonist at its heart.

-Kirkus

A Junior Library Guild selection
Amazon Best Book of the Month - February 2024

2024-2025 Tome Society Book Award Winner

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December 7, 1941. Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel.

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This is a great book. I rate it 7.50/10.00. I like it because it is very suspensing.

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Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel. World War II is raging everywhere else, and it's all anyone can talk about-but so far, the United States has remained neutral. For Frank and Stanley, that means more time to daydream about becoming comic book creators. They've made up their own superhero in the mold of new characters like Superman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman, and with Stanley's drawing skills and Frank's writing skills, they're sure they'll get their own comic published one day.

And then everything explodes.

Frank and Stanley are touring the battleship USS Utah when planes roar overhead, dropping bombs and firing machine guns. Surprised sailors scramble to respond, and as Frank and Stanley take cover they finally understand what's happening: it's a Japanese sneak attack! The United States wouldn't go to war, so the war has come to them.

The boys fight to make their way home amid the chaos and carnage, but disaster and danger are everywhere-from torpedoes and bullets to the shocking cruelty of their former friends and neighbors. Because Stanley's mom is Japanese American, which makes her, and him, "the enemy" in most people's eyes. And try as he might, Frank can't truly understand what his best friend is going through.

If Frank and Stanley make it through this infamous day, can their friendship-and their dreams-survive? Or has everything they know and love been destroyed?

Scholastic | February 6, 2024 | Ages 8 and Up

Gratz does his usual splendid job of creating the visceral drama of battle alongside fully realized characters.

-Booklist - STARRED REVIEW

A gripping, well-researched account of courage and friendship.

-Publishers Weekly

A propulsive wartime story with an earnest protagonist at its heart.

-Kirkus

A Junior Library Guild selection
Amazon Best Book of the Month - February 2024

2024-2025 Tome Society Book Award Winner

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December 7, 1941. Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel.

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It is such a good book. It is a good book because I like stories about interesting things and these things like what is happening in the book is interesting. This is a good book for people how want to learn about history.

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Read 16.2k reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life befo...

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I really liked this book because I really like books that have animals in it. My favorite part in this book is when they couldn't find winn-dixie but she was actually just under the chair in Gloria Dump's kitchen which was really surprising and when that happened I thought winn-dixie was actually lost. I also really liked the movie that was made after this book. Over all this book is a rating of 4/5 stars

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I think " Number the Stars " was an awesome book. " Number the Stars " is about the Nazi invasion on Denmark.

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Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned her attention to writing. She is the author of more than forty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Several books have been adapted to film and stage, and THE GIVER has become an opera. Her newest book, ON THE HORIZON, is a collection of memories and images from Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and post-war Japan. A mother and grandmother, Ms. Lowry divides her time between Maine and Florida. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com

author interview

A CONVERSATION WITH LOIS LOWRY ABOUT THE GIVER

Q. When did you know you wanted to become a writer?

A. I cannot remember ever not wanting to be a writer.

Q. What inspired you to write The Giver?

A. Kids always ask what inspired me to write a particular book or how did I get an idea for a particular book, and often it's very easy to answer that because books like the Anastasia books come from a specific thing; some little event triggers an idea. And some, like Number the Stars, rely on real history. But a book like The Giver is a much more complicated book, and therefore it comes from much more complicated places-and many of them are probably things that I don't even recognize myself anymore, if I ever did. So it's not an easy question to answer.

I will say that the whole concept of memory is one that interests me a great deal. I'm not sure why that is, but I've always been fascinated by the thought of what memory is and what it does and how it works and what we learn from it. And so I think probably that interest of my own and that particular subject was the origin, one of many, of The Giver.

Q. How did you decide what Jonas should take on his journey?

A. Why does Jonas take what he does on his journey? He doesn't have much time when he sets out. He originally plans to make the trip farther along in time, and he plans to prepare for it better. But then, because of circumstances, he has to set out in a very hasty fashion. So what he chooses is out of necessity. He takes food because he needs to survive. He takes the bicycle because he needs to hurry and the bike is faster than legs. And he takes the baby because he is going out to create a future. Babies-and children-always represent the future. Jonas takes the baby, Gabriel, because he loves him and wants to save him, but he takes the baby also in order to begin again with a new life.

Q. When you wrote the ending, were you afraid some readers would want more details or did you want to leave the ending open to individual interpretation?

A. Many kids want a more specific ending to The Giver. Some write, or ask me when they see me, to spell it out exactly. And I don't do that. And the reason is because The Giver is many things to many different people. People bring to it their own complicated beliefs and hopes and dreams and fears and all of that. So I don't want to put my own feelings into it, my own beliefs, and ruin that for people who create their own endings in their minds.

Q. Is it an optimistic ending? Does Jonas survive?

A. I will say that I find it an optimistic ending. How could it not be an optimistic ending, a happy ending, when that house is there with its lights on and music is playing? So I'm always kind of surprised and disappointed when some people tell me that they think the boy and the baby just die. I don't think they die. What form their new life takes is something I like people to figure out for themselves. And each person will give it a different ending. I think they're out there somewhere and I think that their life has changed and their life is happy, and I would like to think that's true for the people they left behind as well.

Q. In what way is your book Gathering Blue a companion to The Giver?

A. Gathering Blue postulates a world of the future, as The Giver does. I simply created a different kind of world, one that had regressed instead of leaping forward technologically as the world of The Giver has. It was fascinating to explore the savagery of such a world. I began to feel that maybe it coexisted with Jonas's world . . . and that therefore Jonas could be a part of it in a tangential way. So there is a reference to a boy with light eyes at the end of Gathering Blue. Originally I thought he could be either Jonas or not, as the reader chose. But since then I have published two more books-Messenger, and Son-which complete The Giver Quartet and make clear that the light-eyed boy is, indeed. Jonas. In the book Son readers will find out what became of all their favorite characters: Jonas, Gabe, and Kira as well, from Gathering Blue. And there are some new characters-most especially Claire, who is fourteen at the beginning of Son- whom I hope they will grow to love.

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Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner [Lowry, Lois] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner

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This book was an awesome story it really explains a story about a girl who had to move towns away from home and doesn't have a mom. I think this is a great book for 3rd graders and up. I personally give this book a 5 star rating

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Because of Winn-Dixie is a 2000 children's novel written by Kate DiCamillo. It was adapted as a 2005 family film directed by Wayne Wang, produced by Walden Media and Twentieth Century Fox, and starring AnnaSophia Robb as Opal Buloni.[1]

A 10-year-old girl named India Opal Buloni has just moved to a trailer park in the small town of Naomi, Florida, with her father, who is known as The Preacher because he preaches at the local church. Her mother, Benjean-Megan, abandoned them when Opal was three. She describes the preacher as a turtle, always sticking his head into his shell, and never wanting to come out into the real world. This is most likely because of how sad he is about her mother, with whom he is still in love.

While in the supermarket, Opal sees a scruffy dog wrecking the store and decides to take him home, naming him Winn-Dixie after the supermarket chain. Miss Franny Block, a librarian, shares great stories about her past, including one about her great-grandfather, whose family members died while he was fighting for the South in the Civil War. He invented Litmus Lozenge candies, which tasted like root beer and strawberry but included a secret ingredient-melancholy. Anyone who tasted the candies tasted sweetness mixed with sadness. Opal learns that her sour-faced neighbor, Amanda Wilkinson, lost her younger brother Carson when he drowned in the town lake the previous summer. She vows to be nicer to her from then on.

Opal finds a dog collar that she wants to buy for Winn-Dixie, but she has no money and decides to work for the pet store to earn it. Otis, a worker at Gertrude's Pets, is unwilling to hire Opal as a cleaning girl, but she comes to work. When Opal and Winn-Dixie step into the store, the animals panic when they see the big dog. Otis plays his guitar to calm them. Opal learns that Otis once went to jail for battering a police officer who tried to confiscate his guitar after the officer told Otis he could not play music on the street because he was disturbing others.

While Opal is riding her bike and Winn-Dixie runs ahead, they meet a woman named Gloria Dump. She and Opal become good friends. Opal and Gloria, a recovering alcoholic, decide to host a small party, inspired by the one in Gone With the Wind, inviting everyone they know. In the process, Opal becomes a friend to her former enemies, the brothers Stevie and Dunlap Dewberry. She also invites Amanda Wilkinson and Sweetie Pie Thomas, a younger girl who has no pet, and so has fallen in love with Winn-Dixie. Otis and Miss Franny Block are also invited.

Opal and Gloria set up everything outdoors, but it starts to rain, so they bring the party indoors. Opal can't find Winn-Dixie anywhere, even after searching the town. Ten minutes later she returns to Gloria's home to discover that Winn-Dixie has been there all the time, hiding because he is scared of storms. The book ends with Otis playing his guitar and everyone singing one of The Preacher's songs.

Because of Winn-Dixie was the winner of a Newbery Honor distinction the year after publication.[2] In 2000, the book won the Josette Frank Award,[3] and in 2003 won the Mark Twain Award.[4]

In 2007 the U.S. National Education Association listed Winn-Dixie as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children", based on an online poll.[5] In 2012 it was ranked number 20 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by School Library Journal, the first of three books by DiCamillo in the Top 100.[6]

A musical based on the novel was announced in 2011 and debuted at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre on December 5, 2013.[7] John Tartaglia directed the play while Nell Benjamin wrote the book and lyrics and Duncan Sheik wrote the music.[8][9] The musical was a part of Goodspeed Musicals' 2019 season, playing from June to September, and was directed by John Rando.[10][11]

1. ^ "Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) - Wayne Wang | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie" - via www.allmovie.com.

2. ^ "Newbery Medal winners".

3. ^ Hare, Peter. "Awards". Archived from the original on December 2, 2009.

4. ^ "Missouri Association of School Librarians". Missouri Association of School Librarians.

5. ^ National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".

6. ^ Bird, Elizabeth (July 7, 2012). "Top 100 Chapter Book Poll Results". A Fuse #8 Production. Blog. School Library Journal (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com). Archived from the original on July 13, 2012.

7. ^ Maxwell, Stephanie (December 26, 2013). "Off The Record: Because of Winn Dixie a heartfelt holiday musical". Arkansas Online.

8. ^ Cox, Gordon (December 16, 2011). "'Winn-Dixie' aims for Broadway". Variety.

9. ^ Rizzo, Frank (July 19, 2019). "Regional Theater Review: 'Because of Winn Dixie,' the Musical". Variety.

10. ^ Lefkowitz, Andy (September 25, 2018). "Nell Benjamin & Duncan Sheik's Because of Winn Dixie Musical Set for Goodspeed's 2019 Season". Broadway.com.

11. ^ Gans, Andrew (July 22, 2019). "Read Reviews for Because of Winn Dixie, the New Musical by Duncan Sheik and Nell Benjamin". Playbill.

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Toggle the table of contents From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Because of Winn-Dixie is a 2000 children's novel written by Kate DiCamillo.

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This book is incredible! I totally recommend it. When I found out it was a series, I was so excited. It has the perfect combo of excitement and suspense, while maintaining the idea of the lemonade war.

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I give this 4 stars out of 5. I loved this book because it was well organized and it was very entertaining. I liked the part where Jessie put bugs in Evan's lemonade. Overall it was a very good book.

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I really recommend reading in 4th grade to read HEROES by Alan Gratz. It's a good book but it's also long. You should read HEROES.

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Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor|Hardcover

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The instant #1 New York Times bestseller!From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, Ground Zero, and Two Degrees comes this heart-pounding, inventive, and powerful new novel about the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor... as only Alan...

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Sorry if this is a song. This is the only picture I found. It is a good book because it is wholesome.

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THIS BOOK is a good book because I believe that even though it is a history it is good. any body agree with me

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Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel. World War II is raging everywhere else, and it's all anyone can talk about-but so far, the United States has remained neutral. For Frank and Stanley, that means more time to daydream about becoming comic book creators. They've made up their own superhero in the mold of new characters like Superman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman, and with Stanley's drawing skills and Frank's writing skills, they're sure they'll get their own comic published one day.

And then everything explodes.

Frank and Stanley are touring the battleship USS Utah when planes roar overhead, dropping bombs and firing machine guns. Surprised sailors scramble to respond, and as Frank and Stanley take cover they finally understand what's happening: it's a Japanese sneak attack! The United States wouldn't go to war, so the war has come to them.

The boys fight to make their way home amid the chaos and carnage, but disaster and danger are everywhere-from torpedoes and bullets to the shocking cruelty of their former friends and neighbors. Because Stanley's mom is Japanese American, which makes her, and him, "the enemy" in most people's eyes. And try as he might, Frank can't truly understand what his best friend is going through.

If Frank and Stanley make it through this infamous day, can their friendship-and their dreams-survive? Or has everything they know and love been destroyed?

Scholastic | February 6, 2024 | Ages 8 and Up

Gratz does his usual splendid job of creating the visceral drama of battle alongside fully realized characters.

-Booklist - STARRED REVIEW

A gripping, well-researched account of courage and friendship.

-Publishers Weekly

A propulsive wartime story with an earnest protagonist at its heart.

-Kirkus

A Junior Library Guild selection
Amazon Best Book of the Month - February 2024

2024-2025 Tome Society Book Award Winner

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December 7, 1941. Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel.

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Tiger Rising is a great book i think its a soled 10 because the characters have perfect traits from my point of view. Also, it relates to Shiloh and Because of Winn Dixie because they both have animals in it.

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I absolutely loved this book. It was my favorite book of all year. One reason why I loved this book is because it left you wanting to read on so badly. I definitely recommend it. I know I'm not the only one. I hope I am able to read more Alan Gratz books this summer. I rate this book 5 stars.

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Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel. World War II is raging everywhere else, and it's all anyone can talk about-but so far, the United States has remained neutral. For Frank and Stanley, that means more time to daydream about becoming comic book creators. They've made up their own superhero in the mold of new characters like Superman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman, and with Stanley's drawing skills and Frank's writing skills, they're sure they'll get their own comic published one day.

And then everything explodes.

Frank and Stanley are touring the battleship USS Utah when planes roar overhead, dropping bombs and firing machine guns. Surprised sailors scramble to respond, and as Frank and Stanley take cover they finally understand what's happening: it's a Japanese sneak attack! The United States wouldn't go to war, so the war has come to them.

The boys fight to make their way home amid the chaos and carnage, but disaster and danger are everywhere-from torpedoes and bullets to the shocking cruelty of their former friends and neighbors. Because Stanley's mom is Japanese American, which makes her, and him, "the enemy" in most people's eyes. And try as he might, Frank can't truly understand what his best friend is going through.

If Frank and Stanley make it through this infamous day, can their friendship-and their dreams-survive? Or has everything they know and love been destroyed?

Scholastic | February 6, 2024 | Ages 8 and Up

Gratz does his usual splendid job of creating the visceral drama of battle alongside fully realized characters.

-Booklist - STARRED REVIEW

A gripping, well-researched account of courage and friendship.

-Publishers Weekly

A propulsive wartime story with an earnest protagonist at its heart.

-Kirkus

A Junior Library Guild selection
Amazon Best Book of the Month - February 2024

2024-2025 Tome Society Book Award Winner

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December 7, 1941. Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel.

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This was another very good book.I recommend this book because it is an interesting book and I really think it was another great book.

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Read 3,277 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The National Book Award finalist from the best-selling author of Because of Winn-Dixie-n...

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I think the lemonade war was a good book. I recommend it because it has a good theme and it is very fun to read. It has suspense at the end of some chapters. It is a very good book.

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I learned a lot about Taylor swift's yong Life and now to. She has gone through a lot of hardships

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This book was very interesting even though I didn't read the hole book it was still really good. 

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This was the best book I read in 2024. 5/5 stars. It really taught me about World War ll

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Number the Stars was a good book because it was very fast paced and not slow and boring like some other books I liked it more that some other books like lemonade war because there was more action overall I'd give it an 9.82538473438473574846453930383424347596/10

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Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned her attention to writing. She is the author of more than forty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Several books have been adapted to film and stage, and THE GIVER has become an opera. Her newest book, ON THE HORIZON, is a collection of memories and images from Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and post-war Japan. A mother and grandmother, Ms. Lowry divides her time between Maine and Florida. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com

author interview

A CONVERSATION WITH LOIS LOWRY ABOUT THE GIVER

Q. When did you know you wanted to become a writer?

A. I cannot remember ever not wanting to be a writer.

Q. What inspired you to write The Giver?

A. Kids always ask what inspired me to write a particular book or how did I get an idea for a particular book, and often it's very easy to answer that because books like the Anastasia books come from a specific thing; some little event triggers an idea. And some, like Number the Stars, rely on real history. But a book like The Giver is a much more complicated book, and therefore it comes from much more complicated places-and many of them are probably things that I don't even recognize myself anymore, if I ever did. So it's not an easy question to answer.

I will say that the whole concept of memory is one that interests me a great deal. I'm not sure why that is, but I've always been fascinated by the thought of what memory is and what it does and how it works and what we learn from it. And so I think probably that interest of my own and that particular subject was the origin, one of many, of The Giver.

Q. How did you decide what Jonas should take on his journey?

A. Why does Jonas take what he does on his journey? He doesn't have much time when he sets out. He originally plans to make the trip farther along in time, and he plans to prepare for it better. But then, because of circumstances, he has to set out in a very hasty fashion. So what he chooses is out of necessity. He takes food because he needs to survive. He takes the bicycle because he needs to hurry and the bike is faster than legs. And he takes the baby because he is going out to create a future. Babies-and children-always represent the future. Jonas takes the baby, Gabriel, because he loves him and wants to save him, but he takes the baby also in order to begin again with a new life.

Q. When you wrote the ending, were you afraid some readers would want more details or did you want to leave the ending open to individual interpretation?

A. Many kids want a more specific ending to The Giver. Some write, or ask me when they see me, to spell it out exactly. And I don't do that. And the reason is because The Giver is many things to many different people. People bring to it their own complicated beliefs and hopes and dreams and fears and all of that. So I don't want to put my own feelings into it, my own beliefs, and ruin that for people who create their own endings in their minds.

Q. Is it an optimistic ending? Does Jonas survive?

A. I will say that I find it an optimistic ending. How could it not be an optimistic ending, a happy ending, when that house is there with its lights on and music is playing? So I'm always kind of surprised and disappointed when some people tell me that they think the boy and the baby just die. I don't think they die. What form their new life takes is something I like people to figure out for themselves. And each person will give it a different ending. I think they're out there somewhere and I think that their life has changed and their life is happy, and I would like to think that's true for the people they left behind as well.

Q. In what way is your book Gathering Blue a companion to The Giver?

A. Gathering Blue postulates a world of the future, as The Giver does. I simply created a different kind of world, one that had regressed instead of leaping forward technologically as the world of The Giver has. It was fascinating to explore the savagery of such a world. I began to feel that maybe it coexisted with Jonas's world . . . and that therefore Jonas could be a part of it in a tangential way. So there is a reference to a boy with light eyes at the end of Gathering Blue. Originally I thought he could be either Jonas or not, as the reader chose. But since then I have published two more books-Messenger, and Son-which complete The Giver Quartet and make clear that the light-eyed boy is, indeed. Jonas. In the book Son readers will find out what became of all their favorite characters: Jonas, Gabe, and Kira as well, from Gathering Blue. And there are some new characters-most especially Claire, who is fourteen at the beginning of Son- whom I hope they will grow to love.

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A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America's beloved storyteller.

One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis.

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This is another good book that I recommend to all the dog lovers.I enjoyed this book possibly as much as you will.

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A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America's beloved storyteller.

One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis.

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I think this book is amazing! I totally will pass this on to my kids I think this is a great book on how to be kind and to respect one another and that not everything is an competition. I give this book a 4.8 star rating.

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Heroes is a sad book because Stanley and Frank have to say goodbye forever. It's really sad. Also, if I would be in a book for the rest of my life it would be Heroes.

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This was a great book. it was sad, happy,and kind. this book was a 8.31/10.00 to me.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Because of Winn-Dixie is a 2000 children's novel written by Kate DiCamillo. It was adapted as a 2005 family film directed by Wayne Wang, produced by Walden Media and Twentieth Century Fox, and starring AnnaSophia Robb as Opal Buloni.[1]

A 10-year-old girl named India Opal Buloni has just moved to a trailer park in the small town of Naomi, Florida, with her father, who is known as The Preacher because he preaches at the local church. Her mother, Benjean-Megan, abandoned them when Opal was three. She describes the preacher as a turtle, always sticking his head into his shell, and never wanting to come out into the real world. This is most likely because of how sad he is about her mother, with whom he is still in love.

While in the supermarket, Opal sees a scruffy dog wrecking the store and decides to take him home, naming him Winn-Dixie after the supermarket chain. Miss Franny Block, a librarian, shares great stories about her past, including one about her great-grandfather, whose family members died while he was fighting for the South in the Civil War. He invented Litmus Lozenge candies, which tasted like root beer and strawberry but included a secret ingredient-melancholy. Anyone who tasted the candies tasted sweetness mixed with sadness. Opal learns that her sour-faced neighbor, Amanda Wilkinson, lost her younger brother Carson when he drowned in the town lake the previous summer. She vows to be nicer to her from then on.

Opal finds a dog collar that she wants to buy for Winn-Dixie, but she has no money and decides to work for the pet store to earn it. Otis, a worker at Gertrude's Pets, is unwilling to hire Opal as a cleaning girl, but she comes to work. When Opal and Winn-Dixie step into the store, the animals panic when they see the big dog. Otis plays his guitar to calm them. Opal learns that Otis once went to jail for battering a police officer who tried to confiscate his guitar after the officer told Otis he could not play music on the street because he was disturbing others.

While Opal is riding her bike and Winn-Dixie runs ahead, they meet a woman named Gloria Dump. She and Opal become good friends. Opal and Gloria, a recovering alcoholic, decide to host a small party, inspired by the one in Gone With the Wind, inviting everyone they know. In the process, Opal becomes a friend to her former enemies, the brothers Stevie and Dunlap Dewberry. She also invites Amanda Wilkinson and Sweetie Pie Thomas, a younger girl who has no pet, and so has fallen in love with Winn-Dixie. Otis and Miss Franny Block are also invited.

Opal and Gloria set up everything outdoors, but it starts to rain, so they bring the party indoors. Opal can't find Winn-Dixie anywhere, even after searching the town. Ten minutes later she returns to Gloria's home to discover that Winn-Dixie has been there all the time, hiding because he is scared of storms. The book ends with Otis playing his guitar and everyone singing one of The Preacher's songs.

Because of Winn-Dixie was the winner of a Newbery Honor distinction the year after publication.[2] In 2000, the book won the Josette Frank Award,[3] and in 2003 won the Mark Twain Award.[4]

In 2007 the U.S. National Education Association listed Winn-Dixie as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children", based on an online poll.[5] In 2012 it was ranked number 20 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by School Library Journal, the first of three books by DiCamillo in the Top 100.[6]

A musical based on the novel was announced in 2011 and debuted at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre on December 5, 2013.[7] John Tartaglia directed the play while Nell Benjamin wrote the book and lyrics and Duncan Sheik wrote the music.[8][9] The musical was a part of Goodspeed Musicals' 2019 season, playing from June to September, and was directed by John Rando.[10][11]

1. ^ "Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) - Wayne Wang | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie" - via www.allmovie.com.

2. ^ "Newbery Medal winners".

3. ^ Hare, Peter. "Awards". Archived from the original on December 2, 2009.

4. ^ "Missouri Association of School Librarians". Missouri Association of School Librarians.

5. ^ National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".

6. ^ Bird, Elizabeth (July 7, 2012). "Top 100 Chapter Book Poll Results". A Fuse #8 Production. Blog. School Library Journal (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com). Archived from the original on July 13, 2012.

7. ^ Maxwell, Stephanie (December 26, 2013). "Off The Record: Because of Winn Dixie a heartfelt holiday musical". Arkansas Online.

8. ^ Cox, Gordon (December 16, 2011). "'Winn-Dixie' aims for Broadway". Variety.

9. ^ Rizzo, Frank (July 19, 2019). "Regional Theater Review: 'Because of Winn Dixie,' the Musical". Variety.

10. ^ Lefkowitz, Andy (September 25, 2018). "Nell Benjamin & Duncan Sheik's Because of Winn Dixie Musical Set for Goodspeed's 2019 Season". Broadway.com.

11. ^ Gans, Andrew (July 22, 2019). "Read Reviews for Because of Winn Dixie, the New Musical by Duncan Sheik and Nell Benjamin". Playbill.

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I didn't like this book. I didn't like this book because I really don't understand why Rob would want to free a wild tiger. If the tiger lasted longer without getting killed he could have hurt, killed, or even could have damaged peoples belongings or could have damaged peoples homes. I also didn't like the movie. This movie was almost the same thing as the book so I didn't like the movie because of the same reason I did not like the book. My over all rating over this whole book would probably have to be a 2 out of 5 stars.

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Tiger Rising was one of my favorite books we read this year. I also totally recommend this book. Definitely share this book with any younger kids you know.

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Queen Latifah and Dennis Quaid star in this beloved tale based on the New York Times best-selling book by Kate DiCamillo. When 10 year-old Rob Horton (Christian Convery) discovers a caged tiger in the woods near his home, his imagination runs wild.

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I liked this book because it is about a swan who signed the odds because he was born without a voice. In the book he is an all star at playing the trumpet! I like this book. This book is good for trumpet lovers

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This book is 5 out of 5 all the way! This might of been my favorite book all year. It combines education with fictional fun. Absolutely, 100% recommend it.

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Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (Hardcover)

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The instant #1 New York Times bestseller!From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, Ground Zero, and Two Degrees comes this heart-pounding, inventive, and powerful new novel about the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor... as only Alan Gratz can tell it! December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good.

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Tiger Rising was really good because it had a lot of suspence

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Because of Winn Dixie is my 2nd favorite book because it might sounds like Winn Dixie died but it turns out alright.

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It was very emotional and to it really brings out the authors story as well and that's why I really like this book

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Overall, The Trumpet of the Swan was very good. I definitely recommend it to all people. Everything in the book made sense to me and I wanted to read more. My favorite character was Louis because he couldn't communicate but he learned how to use a trumpet just so he could. 4.5 stars.

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The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's novel by E. B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis, a trumpeter swan born without a voice who overcomes this difficulty by learning to play a trumpet in order to impress a beautiful swan named Serena.

In Canada during the spring of 1968, the cob (the name for an adult male swan) and the pen (the name for an adult female swan), both trumpeter swans, build their summer nest on a small island in a pond. The swans are worried when Sam Beaver, an 11-year-old boy on a camping trip with his father, begins coming to the lake every day to watch them; the cob believes that human boys are dangerous. One day while the pen steps away from her eggs to stretch her legs, a fox slips up behind her. Sam chases the fox away, saving both the female and her eggs. After this incident, the swans begin to trust him. After the hatching of their cygnets, the cob proudly leads his brood to Sam to introduce them. The cygnets each chirp at Sam in greeting, except for the youngest who is named Louis and is unable to chirp but pulls Sam's shoelace instead. The adult swans gradually realize that Louis is mute.

The adults grow increasingly concerned about Louis, worrying that he will not be able to find a mate if he cannot trumpet like all the other swans. Louis's father promises to find a way for him to communicate. At the end of summer, the swan family flies to the winter refuge, Red Rock Lakes in Montana. Louis decides he should learn to read and write in order to communicate, and flies away from the refuge to visit Sam Beaver. Sam takes his swan friend to school with him the next morning. Louis turns out to be a natural at reading and writing, and Sam buys him a portable blackboard and chalk so he can communicate. Unfortunately, because the other swans cannot read, Louis is still lonely.

When Louis returns to the Red Rock Lakes, he falls in love with a young swan, Serena, but cannot attract her attention. Louis's father is aware that trumpeter swans are named after the human musical instrument and becomes determined to acquire a trumpet as a substitute "voice" for Louis. The cob crashes through the window of a music store in Billings, Montana and steals a brass trumpet on a cord. By the time Louis learns to effectively play the trumpet, Serena has migrated north. Instead of accompanying his family north where he might have to face Serena again, Louis visits Sam on his ranch and explains that he feels guilty about the stolen trumpet. Sam suggests that Louis should get a job so he can pay the store for the trumpet and the damaged window. He helps Louis find a position as camp bugler at Camp Kookooskoos, the boys' camp Sam attends. Louis convinces Sam to split one of his webbed feet with a razor blade, making "fingers" so that he can play more notes.

Over the course of the summer, Louis plays taps, reveille, and mess call, and composes a love song for Serena. He also receives a Lifesaving Medal for rescuing a drowning camper. At the end of the summer, he has earned $100, which he carries in a waterproof pouch around his neck along with his slate, chalk, medal, and trumpet. Sam suggests that Louis can get a job with the Swan Boats in Boston. Louis flies across country and becomes an instant success, with a salary of $100 per week and a private suite in the Ritz Hotel.

A Philadelphia nightclub offers Louis a higher salary, $500 per week. He leaves Boston and takes up temporary residence at the Philadelphia Zoo. The zookeeper promises that because Louis is only a guest, he will not be pinioned (have a wing tip cut off to prevent escape) like all the other swans at the zoo. One stormy night, Serena, blown off course, falls into the Zoo's Bird Lake. Louis serenades her by playing " Beautiful Dreamer" on his trumpet, and she falls in love with him, impressed by his song and the numerous possessions hanging around his neck. When the zookeepers spot Serena, they try to clip her wings, and Louis attacks them. He convinces the Head Man to postpone the operation for a short while and sends a telegram to Sam, asking for help. Sam goes to Philadelphia and strikes a deal with the Head Man: in every clutch of cygnets, there is always one that needs special care, just as Louis did in his own family. If the Head Man will let Louis and Serena go free, they will donate one of their cygnets to the zoo every year.

Louis and Serena fly back to the Red Rock Lakes. Now intending to live the rest of his life among other swans, he no longer needs his slate. Louis writes an apology on the slate and gives it and the money bag to his father, who flies back to the music store in Billings. Afraid that the swan will destroy another window, the storekeeper shoots the cob in the shoulder, but is amazed to find the note and the money, which amounts to several times the cost of both the stolen trumpet and the window. Because the cob is a protected species, he is taken to a wildlife veterinarian, where his injury is treated. When he is recovered, he flies back to the Red Rock Lakes to rejoin his family, including Louis and Serena.

Many years later, when Sam is about 20 years old, he is again camping in Canada when he hears the sound of a trumpet playing across the lake and knows it must be Louis. He writes in his journal:

"Tonight I heard Louis's horn. My father heard it, too. The wind was right, and I could hear the notes of taps, just as darkness fell. There is nothing in all the world I like better than the trumpet of the swan."

The book received a strongly positive review by John Updike in The New York Times, in which he said "While not quite so sprightly as Stuart Little, and less rich in personalities and incident than Charlotte's Web - that paean to barnyard life by a city humorist turned farmer - The Trumpet of the Swan has superior qualities of its own; it is the most spacious and serene of the three, the one most imbued with the author's sense of the precious instinctual heritage represented by wild nature"

In the category Children's Books, The Trumpet of the Swan was a finalist the National Book Awards 1971, losing out to Lloyd Alexander's The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian.

Because of its success, The Trumpet of the Swan had a few adaptations.

An unabridged reading of the book by author White was once audio recorded and has since been published as an audiobook.

In 1972, a piece by composer Benjamin Lees based on The Trumpet of the Swan was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra (an orchestra with which Louis is mentioned as giving a guest performance).

An animated film based on the book was made in 2001 by Rich Animation Studios, released by Nest Family Entertainment and distributed by TriStar Pictures.

A "novel symphony for actors and orchestra" was adapted from the book in 2011 by Marsha Norman with music composed and conducted by Jason Robert Brown. The production starred John Lithgow, Kathy Bates, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Mandy Moore, James Naughton, and Martin Short. The production has been published on CD and by direct download.

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I think this book is ok. This is why, so basically if you loves to have some bad dreams and dreams about some fighting and bombs this book is for you. Over all I will give this book a 3.9 star rating.

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Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel. World War II is raging everywhere else, and it's all anyone can talk about-but so far, the United States has remained neutral. For Frank and Stanley, that means more time to daydream about becoming comic book creators. They've made up their own superhero in the mold of new characters like Superman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman, and with Stanley's drawing skills and Frank's writing skills, they're sure they'll get their own comic published one day.

And then everything explodes.

Frank and Stanley are touring the battleship USS Utah when planes roar overhead, dropping bombs and firing machine guns. Surprised sailors scramble to respond, and as Frank and Stanley take cover they finally understand what's happening: it's a Japanese sneak attack! The United States wouldn't go to war, so the war has come to them.

The boys fight to make their way home amid the chaos and carnage, but disaster and danger are everywhere-from torpedoes and bullets to the shocking cruelty of their former friends and neighbors. Because Stanley's mom is Japanese American, which makes her, and him, "the enemy" in most people's eyes. And try as he might, Frank can't truly understand what his best friend is going through.

If Frank and Stanley make it through this infamous day, can their friendship-and their dreams-survive? Or has everything they know and love been destroyed?

Scholastic | February 6, 2024 | Ages 8 and Up

Gratz does his usual splendid job of creating the visceral drama of battle alongside fully realized characters.

-Booklist - STARRED REVIEW

A gripping, well-researched account of courage and friendship.

-Publishers Weekly

A propulsive wartime story with an earnest protagonist at its heart.

-Kirkus

A Junior Library Guild selection
Amazon Best Book of the Month - February 2024

2024-2025 Tome Society Book Award Winner

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December 7, 1941. Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel.

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Now this book is my favorite of them all.I loved this book.I really recommend this book for everyone no matter what you like this is a combination of them all.

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I really like the book because it has specific details and it taught me about Pearl Harbor.

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"Vivd... fast-paced. The humanity of the characters and the on-the-ground perspective evoke sympathy for those who perished in the attack... A propulsive wartime story with an earnest protagonist at its heart." -- Kirkus Reviews

"[A] gripping, well-researched account of courage and friendship... powerful." -- Publishers Weekly

An ABA Indie Bestseller

A Junior Library Guild Selection

A Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year

An Amazon Best Book of the Month

"A Hollywood thriller of a book...essential for this moment." -- The New York Times

"Gratz renders pulse-pounding ecological tales and high-stakes calamity with the brisk pacing of a thriller...gripping [and] timely." -- Publishers Weekly

"Gratz plunges his middle schoolers into desperate, life-threatening straits in three wildly dangerous scenarios... delivered with wrenching, dramatic urgency." -- Kirkus Reviews

"A seamless, thrilling adventure...important." -- Booklist

"Gratz's deeply moving writing paints vivid images of the loss and fear of those who lived through the trauma of 9/11." -- Kirkus Reviews

"The plot is suspenseful and the characters sympathetic." -- Horn Book

"Intense and fast-paced, this is a compelling, dark, yet ultimately heartening wartime story." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Gratz (Refugee) depicts the events and fallout of WWII's 'Love Day' while exploring the emotional and cultural damages of war." -- Publishers Weekly

"Chilling." -- School Library Journal

"The book illustrates the horrors of war and the narrators' dual realization that the enemy is a person, too. This is a sad and compelling story that sheds some light on a battle that is rarely mentioned in books written for juvenile readers. . . . Highly Recommended." -- School Library Connection

An Amazon Best Book of the Year

A Texas Bluebonnet Master List selection

"Unflinching and sympathetic." -- The New York Times

"Grade A: A stunning, poignant novel." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Harrowing, timely." -- People Magazine

"A gripping, visceral, and hold-your-breath intense story." -- John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars

"Gratz, who is known for well-written and well-researched historical fiction, doesn't disappoint. His latest is timely and moving... This compelling novel will help young people make sense of today's refugee crisis. Meant to be read, discussed, and shared widely." -- School Library Journal

"Some novels are engaging and some novels are important. Refugee is both." -- #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys

"This heart-stopping novel is not only compelling -- it is necessary." -- Judy Blundell, National Book Award-winning author of What I Saw and How I Lied

"An incredibly important, heartrending, edge-of-the-seat read, bringing light to the plight of immigrants who search for safety and freedom." -- Pam Muñoz Ryan, author of the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book Echo

"With urgent, clear-eyed storytelling, Gratz's Refugee compellingly explores the desperation and strength that unites those struggling for a place to call home." -- Eliot Schrefer, New York Times bestselling author and two-time National Book Award finalist of Rescued and Endangered

"Full of struggle, heroism, and non-stop adventure, Refugee is not only an important book, it's a terrific story." -- Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, author of the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book The War That Saved My Life

"Powerful and compelling. Refugee is a story about what unites us all." -- Christina Diaz Gonzalez, award-winning author of Moving Target

Praise for Projekt 1065

"[A] high-action spy thriller." -- Booklist

"Readers will be swept up by both the intrigue and the rapid pacing... Kamran is a smart and sympathetic narrator, and readers will be happy to spend time with him in this action-packed thriller." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Exciting, at times ripped from the headlines, and scary, this cinematic work has layers of intrigue and danger in each scene... will appeal to a variety of readers and will raise questions about patriotism, loyalty, and trust... A winner." -- School Library Journal

"Vivid characters and timely topics, such as posttraumatic stress disorder, contribute to making Code of Honor a first-rate novel." -- Voice of Youth Advocates

A Junior Library Guild Selection

Golden Sower Award, 2014-2015 Winner Nebraska

Isinglass Teen Read Award, 2014-2015 Winner New Hampshire

Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award, 2014-2015 Winner

Junior Book Award, 2015-2016 Winner South Carolina

Grand Canyon Reader Award, 2015-2016 Winner Arizona

Truman Readers Award, 2015-2016 Winner Missouri

Reader's Choice Awards, Winner 2015-2016 Virginia

Volunteer State Book Award Winner, 2015-2016 Tennessee

"A powerful story, well told." -- School Library Journal

"A bone-chilling tale not to be ignored." -- Kirkus Reviews

"[A] remarkable survival story." -- Booklist

"Gratz ably conveys... fatalism, yearning, and determination in the face of the unimaginable." -- Publishers Weekly

"Heartbreaking, gripping, raw, and emotional... storytelling at its finest." -- Voice of Youth Advocates

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the book is great Taylor puts quotes in the book that inspire me to be myself and my fav quote is..."if they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more." I think at taylor saying just be yourself

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I like the book " HEROES" because I feel like every chapter wants you to keep reading. I definitely recommend this book if you want to learn more about World War 2.

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"Vivd... fast-paced. The humanity of the characters and the on-the-ground perspective evoke sympathy for those who perished in the attack... A propulsive wartime story with an earnest protagonist at its heart." -- Kirkus Reviews

"[A] gripping, well-researched account of courage and friendship... powerful." -- Publishers Weekly

An ABA Indie Bestseller

A Junior Library Guild Selection

A Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year

An Amazon Best Book of the Month

"A Hollywood thriller of a book...essential for this moment." -- The New York Times

"Gratz renders pulse-pounding ecological tales and high-stakes calamity with the brisk pacing of a thriller...gripping [and] timely." -- Publishers Weekly

"Gratz plunges his middle schoolers into desperate, life-threatening straits in three wildly dangerous scenarios... delivered with wrenching, dramatic urgency." -- Kirkus Reviews

"A seamless, thrilling adventure...important." -- Booklist

"Gratz's deeply moving writing paints vivid images of the loss and fear of those who lived through the trauma of 9/11." -- Kirkus Reviews

"The plot is suspenseful and the characters sympathetic." -- Horn Book

"Intense and fast-paced, this is a compelling, dark, yet ultimately heartening wartime story." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Gratz (Refugee) depicts the events and fallout of WWII's 'Love Day' while exploring the emotional and cultural damages of war." -- Publishers Weekly

"Chilling." -- School Library Journal

"The book illustrates the horrors of war and the narrators' dual realization that the enemy is a person, too. This is a sad and compelling story that sheds some light on a battle that is rarely mentioned in books written for juvenile readers. . . . Highly Recommended." -- School Library Connection

An Amazon Best Book of the Year

A Texas Bluebonnet Master List selection

"Unflinching and sympathetic." -- The New York Times

"Grade A: A stunning, poignant novel." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Harrowing, timely." -- People Magazine

"A gripping, visceral, and hold-your-breath intense story." -- John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars

"Gratz, who is known for well-written and well-researched historical fiction, doesn't disappoint. His latest is timely and moving... This compelling novel will help young people make sense of today's refugee crisis. Meant to be read, discussed, and shared widely." -- School Library Journal

"Some novels are engaging and some novels are important. Refugee is both." -- #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys

"This heart-stopping novel is not only compelling -- it is necessary." -- Judy Blundell, National Book Award-winning author of What I Saw and How I Lied

"An incredibly important, heartrending, edge-of-the-seat read, bringing light to the plight of immigrants who search for safety and freedom." -- Pam Muñoz Ryan, author of the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book Echo

"With urgent, clear-eyed storytelling, Gratz's Refugee compellingly explores the desperation and strength that unites those struggling for a place to call home." -- Eliot Schrefer, New York Times bestselling author and two-time National Book Award finalist of Rescued and Endangered

"Full of struggle, heroism, and non-stop adventure, Refugee is not only an important book, it's a terrific story." -- Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, author of the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book The War That Saved My Life

"Powerful and compelling. Refugee is a story about what unites us all." -- Christina Diaz Gonzalez, award-winning author of Moving Target

Praise for Projekt 1065

"[A] high-action spy thriller." -- Booklist

"Readers will be swept up by both the intrigue and the rapid pacing... Kamran is a smart and sympathetic narrator, and readers will be happy to spend time with him in this action-packed thriller." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Exciting, at times ripped from the headlines, and scary, this cinematic work has layers of intrigue and danger in each scene... will appeal to a variety of readers and will raise questions about patriotism, loyalty, and trust... A winner." -- School Library Journal

"Vivid characters and timely topics, such as posttraumatic stress disorder, contribute to making Code of Honor a first-rate novel." -- Voice of Youth Advocates

A Junior Library Guild Selection

Golden Sower Award, 2014-2015 Winner Nebraska

Isinglass Teen Read Award, 2014-2015 Winner New Hampshire

Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award, 2014-2015 Winner

Junior Book Award, 2015-2016 Winner South Carolina

Grand Canyon Reader Award, 2015-2016 Winner Arizona

Truman Readers Award, 2015-2016 Winner Missouri

Reader's Choice Awards, Winner 2015-2016 Virginia

Volunteer State Book Award Winner, 2015-2016 Tennessee

"A powerful story, well told." -- School Library Journal

"A bone-chilling tale not to be ignored." -- Kirkus Reviews

"[A] remarkable survival story." -- Booklist

"Gratz ably conveys... fatalism, yearning, and determination in the face of the unimaginable." -- Publishers Weekly

"Heartbreaking, gripping, raw, and emotional... storytelling at its finest." -- Voice of Youth Advocates

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Lemonade war is a bad book. it's boring. DO NOT READ! I do not like the book because it's long and gets boring.

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Other Books in Series

This is book number 1 in the The Lemonade War Series series.

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Here is a clever blend of humor, math wizardry, and business know-how. As it captures the one-of-a-kind bond between brother and sister, this poignant novel also subtly explores how arguments can escalate beyond anyone's intent.
For a full hour, he poured lemonade. The world is a thirsty place, he thought as he nearly emptied his fourth pitcher of the day. And I am the Lemonade King.

Evan Treski is people-smart. He's good at talking with people, even grownups. His younger sister Jessie, on the other hand, is math-smart-but not especially good at understanding people. She knows that feelings are her weakest subject.

With just five days left of summer vacation, Evan and Jessie launch an all-out war to see who can sell the most lemonade before school starts. As the battleground heats up, there really is no telling who will win-and even more important, if their fight will ever end.

The six books in this fun-to-read series are:

The Lemonade War

The Lemonade Crime

The Bell Bandit

The Candy Smash

The Magic Trap

The Bridge Battle

About the Author

Jacqueline Davies is the bestselling author of the Lemonade War series, which has inspired young readers across the world to raise money for charitable causes. She is also the award-winning author of the Sydney and Taylor series, illustrated by Deborah Hocking, and Bubbles . . . UP!, illustrated by Sonia Sánchez, which was selected as an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice and was distinguished as a book of outstanding merit on Bank Street College's Best Books of the Year list. Visit her online at www.jacquelinedavies.net.

Praise For...

"A funny, fresh, and plausible novel with likeable characters, and is suitable for reluctant readers." - School Library Journal

"The basics of economics take backseat to Evan and Jessie's realizations about themselves and their relationship. Does a good job of showing the siblings' strengths, flaws, and points of view in this engaging chapter book." - Booklist

"A straightforward plot teaches an important lesson on sibling relationships." - Washington Times

"This compelling tale about growing up and getting along is appealing and engaging." - Book Links

Product Details

ISBN: 9780547237657
ISBN-10: 0547237650
Publisher: Clarion Books
Publication Date: October 11th, 2022
Pages: 192
Language: English
Series: The Lemonade War Series

Recommended Reading Level

Minimum Age: 8
Maximum Age: 12
Minimum Grade Level: 3
Maximum Grade Level: 7

Categories

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The Lemonade War (The Lemonade War Series #1) (Paperback)

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Here is a clever blend of humor, math wizardry, and business know-how. As it captures the one-of-a-kind bond between brother and sister, this poignant novel also subtly explores how arguments can escalate beyond anyone's intent.For a full hour, he poured lemonade. The world is a thirsty place, he thought as he nearly emptied his fourth pitcher of the day.

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It was a good book. Didn't love it. Very sad. A little hard to understand. Not sure if I would recommend it.

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The Tiger Rising is a 2022 American drama film written and directed by Ray Giarratana and starring Christian Convery, Madalen Mills, Katharine McPhee, Sam Trammell, Dennis Quaid and Queen Latifah. It is based on the 2001 book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo.

12-year-old Rob Horton suffers from a strange, itchy rash on his legs that he knows isn't contagious. He lives with his father in a Florida motel called the Kentucky Star. His father (named Robert), and Rob have recently moved to Lister, Florida, after the death of Rob's mother, Caroline, to cancer six months prior. Rob is quite often bullied by mean girls at school. Things begin to change when Rob discovers a caged tiger in the forest while wandering the woods. He then meets a girl named Sistine Bailey (named after the Sistine Chapel) who has recently moved nearby. Rob shows Sistine the tiger. Rob, who usually keeps his feelings locked away in an imaginary suitcase begins to involuntarily open up emotionally to Sistine. Though Sistine insists on letting the tiger go, Rob is wary of what will happen to it if he does. Rob finally relents and releases the tiger, letting it run into the woods. However, just moments later, Rob's father shoots the tiger dead. Rob's father is then seen holding the gun over the tiger in front of the Kentucky Star. Rob then angrily attacks his father and tells him he wishes his father died instead of the tiger, and also forces him to say the name Caroline Horton, which Rob is forbidden to say. Rob also insists they bury the tiger, and have a funeral. At the tiger's funeral, Sistine recites a part of William Blake's The Tiger. Rob and his father confront their unresolved feelings about Rob's mother and Rob begins looking forward to going to school with Sistine.

Nicholas Ryan Hernandez as Billy Threemonger

Jayden Fontaine as Norton Threemonger

Angela Giarratana as Miss Mills

Principal photography occurred in Tifton, Georgia and Thomasville, Georgia in November 2019. Filming wrapped in December 2019.

Controversy

On November 18, 2021, The Hollywood Reporter published an article about Ryan Donnell Smith, Allen Cheney, Emily Hunter Salveson and Ryan Winterstern not paying crew members before or after filming the movie.

The film was released in theaters on January 21, 2022 and on Demand and Digital February 8, 2022.

In South Africa, the film earned $16,541 from 59 theaters in its opening weekend. In the United States and Canada, the film earned $364,216 from 872 theaters in its first weekend, and $214,980 in its second.

The film has a 17% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 4.2/10. On Metacritic - which assigns a weighted mean score - the film has a score of 33 out of 100 based on 6 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Nick Schager of gave the film a negative review and wrote, "The fact that writer-director Ray Giarratana's film is based on Kate DiCamillo's children's book - and thus intended for young audiences - is hardly an excuse for such stodgy storytelling, which plays out with no mystery, ambiguity or subtlety."

Nadir Samara of Screen Rant awarded the film one star out of five and wrote, " The Tiger Rising is too serious & abstract for kids yet too ham-fisted for adults. Sadly, the tale has none of the imagination its protagonist does."

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Tiger Rising was an bad book I hated it because why would they want to let the TIGER OUT they are so stupid and then they acted al sad when the tiger was shot and killed overall 000000000000000000000000.1/ 10

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The Tiger Rising: Directed by Ray Giarratana. With Katharine McPhee, Dennis Quaid, Queen Latifah, Sam Trammell. A young boy discovers a caged tiger in the woods near his home.

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Shiloh is good book puppy is cute and the book teaches a life lesson so that it is and good book because the dogs are cute

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Shiloh (The Shiloh Quartet) [Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Shiloh (The Shiloh Quartet)

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This was my favorite book I read this year. I love this book because I like history and I love reading about World War ll. This book is an overall rating of 5/5 stars.

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Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned her attention to writing. She is the author of more than forty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Several books have been adapted to film and stage, and THE GIVER has become an opera. Her newest book, ON THE HORIZON, is a collection of memories and images from Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and post-war Japan. A mother and grandmother, Ms. Lowry divides her time between Maine and Florida. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com

author interview

A CONVERSATION WITH LOIS LOWRY ABOUT THE GIVER

Q. When did you know you wanted to become a writer?

A. I cannot remember ever not wanting to be a writer.

Q. What inspired you to write The Giver?

A. Kids always ask what inspired me to write a particular book or how did I get an idea for a particular book, and often it's very easy to answer that because books like the Anastasia books come from a specific thing; some little event triggers an idea. And some, like Number the Stars, rely on real history. But a book like The Giver is a much more complicated book, and therefore it comes from much more complicated places-and many of them are probably things that I don't even recognize myself anymore, if I ever did. So it's not an easy question to answer.

I will say that the whole concept of memory is one that interests me a great deal. I'm not sure why that is, but I've always been fascinated by the thought of what memory is and what it does and how it works and what we learn from it. And so I think probably that interest of my own and that particular subject was the origin, one of many, of The Giver.

Q. How did you decide what Jonas should take on his journey?

A. Why does Jonas take what he does on his journey? He doesn't have much time when he sets out. He originally plans to make the trip farther along in time, and he plans to prepare for it better. But then, because of circumstances, he has to set out in a very hasty fashion. So what he chooses is out of necessity. He takes food because he needs to survive. He takes the bicycle because he needs to hurry and the bike is faster than legs. And he takes the baby because he is going out to create a future. Babies-and children-always represent the future. Jonas takes the baby, Gabriel, because he loves him and wants to save him, but he takes the baby also in order to begin again with a new life.

Q. When you wrote the ending, were you afraid some readers would want more details or did you want to leave the ending open to individual interpretation?

A. Many kids want a more specific ending to The Giver. Some write, or ask me when they see me, to spell it out exactly. And I don't do that. And the reason is because The Giver is many things to many different people. People bring to it their own complicated beliefs and hopes and dreams and fears and all of that. So I don't want to put my own feelings into it, my own beliefs, and ruin that for people who create their own endings in their minds.

Q. Is it an optimistic ending? Does Jonas survive?

A. I will say that I find it an optimistic ending. How could it not be an optimistic ending, a happy ending, when that house is there with its lights on and music is playing? So I'm always kind of surprised and disappointed when some people tell me that they think the boy and the baby just die. I don't think they die. What form their new life takes is something I like people to figure out for themselves. And each person will give it a different ending. I think they're out there somewhere and I think that their life has changed and their life is happy, and I would like to think that's true for the people they left behind as well.

Q. In what way is your book Gathering Blue a companion to The Giver?

A. Gathering Blue postulates a world of the future, as The Giver does. I simply created a different kind of world, one that had regressed instead of leaping forward technologically as the world of The Giver has. It was fascinating to explore the savagery of such a world. I began to feel that maybe it coexisted with Jonas's world . . . and that therefore Jonas could be a part of it in a tangential way. So there is a reference to a boy with light eyes at the end of Gathering Blue. Originally I thought he could be either Jonas or not, as the reader chose. But since then I have published two more books-Messenger, and Son-which complete The Giver Quartet and make clear that the light-eyed boy is, indeed. Jonas. In the book Son readers will find out what became of all their favorite characters: Jonas, Gabe, and Kira as well, from Gathering Blue. And there are some new characters-most especially Claire, who is fourteen at the beginning of Son- whom I hope they will grow to love.

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Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner

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Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner [Lowry, Lois] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner

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I liked this book. It showed that you have to care about the things around you

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I didn't like it. There was too much focus on the turtle.

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This book is good because it is action packed. It was really funny and after we got to do a project! It was such a good book. It is good for=or people who are silly!

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Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, NJ, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places, doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Adults as well as children will recognize such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Superfudge; Blubber; Just As Long As We're Together; and Forever. She has also written the best-selling novels Wifey; Smart Women; and, Summer Sisters. More than 75 million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into twenty-six languages.

She receives thousands of letters each month from readers of all ages who share their feelings and

concerns with her.

Judy received a B.S. in education from New York University in 1961, which named her a Distinguished Alumna in 1996, the same year that American Library Association honored her with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. She has won more than ninety awards, none more important than those coming directly from her youngest readers.

She serves on the boards of the Author's Guild, currently as Vice President; the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, where she sponsors an award for contemporary fiction; and the National Coalition Against Censorship, working to protect intellectual freedom. In Spring 2002, Judy was a spokesperson for the Cheerios "A Book for Every Child" literacy campaign which benefited Reading is Fundamental, America's largest literacy organization. She is also the founder and trustee of The Kids Fund, a charitable and educational foundation.

Judy's first book in the Fudge series, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, was published in 1972. She is thrilled to be celebrating its 30th Anniversary with the publication of Double Fudge. Just as generations of fans have loved the Fudge books, generations of Judy's family have inspired them. Thirty years ago, Fudge was inspired by her son, Larry, and now Double Fudge was written at the request of her grandson, Elliot.

Judy lives on islands up and down the East Coast with her husband George Cooper. They have three grown children and one grandchild.

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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing [Blume, Judy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

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I like this book because it really describes a bond between a dog and a human.

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This was an my second favorite book and I really recommend this book.It is an interesting and inspiring book.

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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is a funny book. There was a lot of laughter through the classroom when we were reading. The book was one I recommended and I think you would enjoy it. Even though there were many parts of the book that were funny, I've read better. I'm not saying this was a horrible book, it's just not on the top of my list. I rate it 3 stars.

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Heroes is a great book I love how it shows the Japanese vs America and how two friends got separated.

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Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel. World War II is raging everywhere else, and it's all anyone can talk about-but so far, the United States has remained neutral. For Frank and Stanley, that means more time to daydream about becoming comic book creators. They've made up their own superhero in the mold of new characters like Superman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman, and with Stanley's drawing skills and Frank's writing skills, they're sure they'll get their own comic published one day.

And then everything explodes.

Frank and Stanley are touring the battleship USS Utah when planes roar overhead, dropping bombs and firing machine guns. Surprised sailors scramble to respond, and as Frank and Stanley take cover they finally understand what's happening: it's a Japanese sneak attack! The United States wouldn't go to war, so the war has come to them.

The boys fight to make their way home amid the chaos and carnage, but disaster and danger are everywhere-from torpedoes and bullets to the shocking cruelty of their former friends and neighbors. Because Stanley's mom is Japanese American, which makes her, and him, "the enemy" in most people's eyes. And try as he might, Frank can't truly understand what his best friend is going through.

If Frank and Stanley make it through this infamous day, can their friendship-and their dreams-survive? Or has everything they know and love been destroyed?

Scholastic | February 6, 2024 | Ages 8 and Up

Gratz does his usual splendid job of creating the visceral drama of battle alongside fully realized characters.

-Booklist - STARRED REVIEW

A gripping, well-researched account of courage and friendship.

-Publishers Weekly

A propulsive wartime story with an earnest protagonist at its heart.

-Kirkus

A Junior Library Guild selection
Amazon Best Book of the Month - February 2024

2024-2025 Tome Society Book Award Winner

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December 7, 1941. Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel.

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I was not a big fan of it. I wasn't because it was about a girl who is getting bullied. It is not okay to be a bully

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Hundred Dresses is a children's book by Eleanor Estes, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, published in 1944. In the book, a Polish girl named Wanda Petronski attends a Connecticut school where the other children see her as "different" and mock her.

The book centers on Wanda, a poor and friendless Polish-American girl. Although her grades are very good, she sits in the worst seat in the classroom and does not say anything when her schoolmates tease her. One day, after Wanda's classmates laugh at her beautiful Polish last name and the faded blue dress she wears to school every day, Wanda claims to own one hundred dresses, all lined up in her closet in her worn-down house. This outrageous and obvious lie becomes a game, and the group of girls in her class, headed by Maddie and Peggy, mock and corner her every day before school demanding that she describe all of her dresses for them. Her father, Jan Petronski, reveals that due to the constant discrimination directed at his family they must leave town.

The teacher holds a drawing contest in which the girls are to draw dresses of their own design. Wanda enters and submits one hundred beautiful designs. Her classmates are in awe of her talent and realize that these were her hundred dresses thus leading the students to believe Wanda. The students who teased her feel remorse and want her to know this, but they are not sure how. They decide to write her a kind letter and send it to her old address, hoping the post office can forward it. Unfortunately, she has already moved away and does not realize she won the contest.

Nevertheless, Wanda's lovely nature, kind heart, and forgiveness are revealed later when she tells the teacher to give the students the drawings.

It was a 1945 Newbery Honor book. A 2004 study found that it was a common read-aloud book for third-graders in schools in San Diego County, California. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children."

1. ^ "The Hundred Dresses" (starred review). Kirkus Reviews. Contemporary; undated online, with later ISBN. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
"This is off the track for the creator of The Moffats [also illus. by Slobodkin], but it is a story that might well be told to all generations."

2. Kathleen T. Horning, Association for Library Service to Children, ^ The Newbery & Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books, Chicago: American Library Association, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8389-9717-8, p. 68.

3. ^ American Library Association (30 November 1999). "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present".

4. ^ Fisher, Douglas; et al. (2004). "Interactive Read-Alouds: Is There a Common Set of Implementation Practices?" (PDF). The Reading Teacher. 58 (1): 8-17. doi:10.1598/RT.58.1.1. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 7, 2013.

5. ^ National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".

The Hundred Dresses at archive.org

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Hundred Dresses is a children's book by Eleanor Estes, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, published in 1944. In the book, a Polish girl named Wanda Petronski attends a Connecticut school where the other children see her as "different" and mock her.

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This was one of my favorite books all year. I loved how Mrs. Larsen stopped at chapters that are cliff hangers. She did a very good job

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Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel. World War II is raging everywhere else, and it's all anyone can talk about-but so far, the United States has remained neutral. For Frank and Stanley, that means more time to daydream about becoming comic book creators. They've made up their own superhero in the mold of new characters like Superman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman, and with Stanley's drawing skills and Frank's writing skills, they're sure they'll get their own comic published one day.

And then everything explodes.

Frank and Stanley are touring the battleship USS Utah when planes roar overhead, dropping bombs and firing machine guns. Surprised sailors scramble to respond, and as Frank and Stanley take cover they finally understand what's happening: it's a Japanese sneak attack! The United States wouldn't go to war, so the war has come to them.

The boys fight to make their way home amid the chaos and carnage, but disaster and danger are everywhere-from torpedoes and bullets to the shocking cruelty of their former friends and neighbors. Because Stanley's mom is Japanese American, which makes her, and him, "the enemy" in most people's eyes. And try as he might, Frank can't truly understand what his best friend is going through.

If Frank and Stanley make it through this infamous day, can their friendship-and their dreams-survive? Or has everything they know and love been destroyed?

Scholastic | February 6, 2024 | Ages 8 and Up

Gratz does his usual splendid job of creating the visceral drama of battle alongside fully realized characters.

-Booklist - STARRED REVIEW

A gripping, well-researched account of courage and friendship.

-Publishers Weekly

A propulsive wartime story with an earnest protagonist at its heart.

-Kirkus

A Junior Library Guild selection
Amazon Best Book of the Month - February 2024

2024-2025 Tome Society Book Award Winner

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December 7, 1941. Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel.

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I don't recommend this book because I feel like the chapters are hard to keep up with. It is interesting but I don't recommend it.

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The delightful classic by E. B. White, author of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, about overcoming obstacles and the joy of music. Now featuring gorgeous illustrations by Fred Marcellino!Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis...

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Fox -Margaret Wild & Ron Brooks (ReadAloud)

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It was a very interesting book. It was super good. Had many twists and turns such as finding out Annemarie's sister die at a meeting for the resistance.

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Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned her attention to writing. She is the author of more than forty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Several books have been adapted to film and stage, and THE GIVER has become an opera. Her newest book, ON THE HORIZON, is a collection of memories and images from Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and post-war Japan. A mother and grandmother, Ms. Lowry divides her time between Maine and Florida. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com

author interview

A CONVERSATION WITH LOIS LOWRY ABOUT THE GIVER

Q. When did you know you wanted to become a writer?

A. I cannot remember ever not wanting to be a writer.

Q. What inspired you to write The Giver?

A. Kids always ask what inspired me to write a particular book or how did I get an idea for a particular book, and often it's very easy to answer that because books like the Anastasia books come from a specific thing; some little event triggers an idea. And some, like Number the Stars, rely on real history. But a book like The Giver is a much more complicated book, and therefore it comes from much more complicated places-and many of them are probably things that I don't even recognize myself anymore, if I ever did. So it's not an easy question to answer.

I will say that the whole concept of memory is one that interests me a great deal. I'm not sure why that is, but I've always been fascinated by the thought of what memory is and what it does and how it works and what we learn from it. And so I think probably that interest of my own and that particular subject was the origin, one of many, of The Giver.

Q. How did you decide what Jonas should take on his journey?

A. Why does Jonas take what he does on his journey? He doesn't have much time when he sets out. He originally plans to make the trip farther along in time, and he plans to prepare for it better. But then, because of circumstances, he has to set out in a very hasty fashion. So what he chooses is out of necessity. He takes food because he needs to survive. He takes the bicycle because he needs to hurry and the bike is faster than legs. And he takes the baby because he is going out to create a future. Babies-and children-always represent the future. Jonas takes the baby, Gabriel, because he loves him and wants to save him, but he takes the baby also in order to begin again with a new life.

Q. When you wrote the ending, were you afraid some readers would want more details or did you want to leave the ending open to individual interpretation?

A. Many kids want a more specific ending to The Giver. Some write, or ask me when they see me, to spell it out exactly. And I don't do that. And the reason is because The Giver is many things to many different people. People bring to it their own complicated beliefs and hopes and dreams and fears and all of that. So I don't want to put my own feelings into it, my own beliefs, and ruin that for people who create their own endings in their minds.

Q. Is it an optimistic ending? Does Jonas survive?

A. I will say that I find it an optimistic ending. How could it not be an optimistic ending, a happy ending, when that house is there with its lights on and music is playing? So I'm always kind of surprised and disappointed when some people tell me that they think the boy and the baby just die. I don't think they die. What form their new life takes is something I like people to figure out for themselves. And each person will give it a different ending. I think they're out there somewhere and I think that their life has changed and their life is happy, and I would like to think that's true for the people they left behind as well.

Q. In what way is your book Gathering Blue a companion to The Giver?

A. Gathering Blue postulates a world of the future, as The Giver does. I simply created a different kind of world, one that had regressed instead of leaping forward technologically as the world of The Giver has. It was fascinating to explore the savagery of such a world. I began to feel that maybe it coexisted with Jonas's world . . . and that therefore Jonas could be a part of it in a tangential way. So there is a reference to a boy with light eyes at the end of Gathering Blue. Originally I thought he could be either Jonas or not, as the reader chose. But since then I have published two more books-Messenger, and Son-which complete The Giver Quartet and make clear that the light-eyed boy is, indeed. Jonas. In the book Son readers will find out what became of all their favorite characters: Jonas, Gabe, and Kira as well, from Gathering Blue. And there are some new characters-most especially Claire, who is fourteen at the beginning of Son- whom I hope they will grow to love.

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Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner

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A Reading Group Guide to

The Shiloh Trilogy
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

About the Trilogy

The Shiloh Trilogy by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor launched by the Newbery Award–winning novel Shiloh, takes readers straight into the heart and soul of an eleven-year-old West Virginia boy named Marty Preston. His family of five has barely enough food and room for themselves, never mind a pet. But when Marty finds an abused beagle out in the woods, he’s willing to go to almost any length to hold on to him. The story of how Marty keeps Shiloh and at the same time tries to balance his responsibilities to his family, to the dog’s troubled original owner, and, perhaps trickiest of all, to himself, unfolds in an unforgettable trilogy. Each book is richly rewarding on its own. Together they form one of the most deeply felt sagas in modern children’s literature.

Discussion Topics

1. Marty loves animals. What details does the author provide, right from the opening paragraphs of Shiloh, that make this clear to readers? What does Marty teach Judd about loving animals in Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh?

2. “A lie don’t seem a lie anymore when it’s meant to save a dog,” Marty says in Shiloh, ”and right and wrong’s all mixed up in my head.” Discuss how Marty continues to wrestle with right and wrong in Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh.

3. Marty feels that his choices, in Shiloh, come down to either hiding the dog and keeping it secret, or giving it back to Judd. Debate whether there are other possibilities that Marty hasn’t considered.

4. Explain Marty’s comment in Saving Shiloh, “Trying to be polite and honest at the same time is hard work.” Rate Marty on his ability to be both polite and honest.

5. Marty’s dream of becoming a vet “sort of leaks out like water in a paper bag” when his father, early in Shiloh, tells him how expensive veterinary training is. How does Marty restore his dream as the trilogy progresses? Discuss the possibilities of Marty achieving his goal.

6. “Thought once if I could just get Shiloh for my own, it would be the finest day of my life,” Marty says, after he and Shiloh’s original owner, Judd Travers, reach their agreement in Shiloh. “In a way it is, in a way it isn’t.” Why is Marty so torn?

7. The second book in the trilogy is called Shiloh Season. What does Marty mean by “Shiloh season”? How are Marty’s fears justified?

8. Marty and David Howard are allowed to roam the countryside near Marty’s house, but in Saving Shiloh, Marty’s mother won’t let Marty and his sisters go trick-or-treating. She says, “Houses too far apart for you kids to be walk- ing out on the road.” Explain her fears. Why are her fears more justified in Saving Shiloh?

9. In Shiloh Season, Marty realizes that “when you love, you got to take chances.” What are some of the chances he takes for Shiloh? Judd takes a chance for Shiloh in Saving Shiloh. What does Judd’s gesture indicate to Marty and the surrounding community?

10. Over the three novels, the author reveals more and more details about Judd Travers’s childhood. How do Marty’s feelings about Judd change as he learns more about Judd’s early years? Discuss whether your feelings toward Judd change.

11. In Saving Shiloh, Ed Sholt says, “We ought to keep Judd on the hot seat, let him know his kind wasn’t wanted around here, and maybe he’d move some- where else.” How does Judd become a hero in his neck of the woods by the end of the novel?

12. “There’s food for the body and food for the spirit,” Marty’s father says. “And Shiloh sure feeds our spirit.” Explain how Shiloh continues to feed the spirit of the Preston family in Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh. What is the food that eventually feeds Judd’s spirit in Saving Shiloh?

13. Discuss Marty’s relationship with Dara Lynn and Becky. What is the first evidence in Saving Shiloh that Marty and Dara Lynn’s relationship is improving? How does the “near disaster” at the creek in Saving Shiloh change Marty, David, Judd, and the entire Preston family?

14. Marty’s best friend is David Howard, the only child of two professional parents. Compare and contrast David’s home with Marty’s. What are some of the material advantages that the Howards enjoy? How comfortable is David at Marty’s home? What draws the boys to each other?

15. Explain what Marty means in Saving Shiloh when he says, “Because I got Shiloh, I’m smack in the middle of Judd’s problems.”

16. Why is Judd suspicious of Marty when Marty tries to help him?

17. Cite evidence from the Shiloh novels that religion is important to the Preston family. How does Marty call upon his religious training when he is sorting out the lies that he tells?

18. What does Mr. Preston teach his children about giving someone a second chance? Discuss how many chances the Preston family gives Judd in the Shiloh trilogy. What is the Preston family’s role in helping Judd on a journey of self-discovery? What does Judd learn about giving and receiving in the three Shiloh novels?

19. An epiphany is a term that refers to a point of awakening for one or more characters in a novel. What is Judd Travers’ epiphany in Saving Shiloh? How do Marty and David Howard realize that Judd has changed?

Activities and Research

1. The Shiloh trilogy is set in and around real places in West Virginia. Find a map of Tyler County, West Virginia, on the Internet. Identify the towns mentioned in the novels.

2. In Appalachia where the Shiloh books are set, there is a relationship between the land and the people. Discuss how the land shapes the people. How do the people shape the land? Write a brochure for the Tyler County Welcome Center that explains this to outsiders who want to better understand the area and its people. Include a map of Tyler County on the brochure.

3. In Shiloh, Marty’s teacher, and David Howard’s mother, encourages Marty to work on his grammar. Select a paragraph from Shiloh and write it in Standard English. How does changing the language affect the tone of the novel, and the sense of place?

4. Judd Travers violates hunting laws. Why are his actions so dangerous to the community at large? Learn about the hunting laws in your area. Find out if there have been violations of or significant controversies about them.

5. “You’ve got to go by the law,” Marty’s father says. “You don’t agree by the law, then you work to change it.” Research the ways that citizens in your community have worked to change a law with which they disagreed.

6. Marty’s class is assigned to write about how they imagine their future. Prepare this assignment for Marty. How does he imagine his future? How much education will he need? Where will he live?

7. Invite a representative from your local SPCA to talk about animal abuse. What are the warning signs of abuse? How should you report it?

8. “Truth,” Marty decides in Shiloh Season, “is more important, but gossip is more interesting.” Discuss how David Howard’s case against Judd Travers in Saving Shiloh is based on gossip and a wild imagination. The community also suspects Judd of the murder. Write a letter to the editor of the newspaper accusing Judd of the crime.

9. In Saving Shiloh, the Prestons invite Judd Travers to Thanksgiving lunch. Role-play a family conversation that takes place at the end of the day. What, for example, would Marty, Dara Lynn, and Becky say to their parents about their guest? How might Mr. and Mrs. Preston respond to their children?

10. David Howard’s dad works for the Tyler Star-News. Find out the role of a good journalist. Then write the story about Judd saving Shiloh for Mr. Howard’s newspaper. Provide quotes from Judd, Marty, and David Howard. Give the article an appropriate title.

11. Marty’s father had faith in Judd Travers, even when other people didn’t. Write an essay about the changes that occur within Judd Travers from the beginning of Shiloh to the end of Saving Shiloh.

Read—Watch—Write: Exploring the Film Versions

1. A book has been written; a movie has been made. The next step is for reviewers to make thoughtful comparisons of the movie to the book. Put yourself in the role of a reviewer. First read one of the Shiloh books, then watch the DVD, and finally, write a review. Carefully think through the challenges of putting a book on the screen, considering both the advantages and disadvantages of each medium. Remember that a review should include a concise summary, your opinion of the work, clear evidence to support your opinion, and a short conclusion.

2. Anytime a novel is made into a film, there is a question as to which is better. Why is it important to read a novel before seeing the film adaptation? Discuss the difference in a film narrative and a novel narrative.

3. Read Shiloh, Shiloh Season, and Saving Shiloh before you watch the films. How do you mentally picture the main characters? After watching the films, write a brief paper that compares your mental image of one of the main characters (e.g. Marty, David Howard, Judd Travers, etc.) to the way they are portrayed on the screen.

4. Consider the dialect that is indicative of the Appalachia people. The reader knows that Marty is working to improve his grammar. How are dialect and grammar different? Note any inconsistencies in language in the book and the movie. Who is the most authentic character in the movie?

5. Appalachia is a unique region of the United States. Write down what you learned about the geography and the culture of this region from Naylor’s Shiloh novels. While viewing the film, jot down the way this region is conveyed. Are the films true to the people and how they live?

6. Marty experiences various emotions throughout the Shiloh novels. For example, he feels anger, fear, happiness, and sadness. Find a scene in one or all of the novels where Marty shows these emotions. How does he display the same emotions in the film versions of the novels? Is it in dialogue? Body language? Try your hand at acting. Pick an emotional scene in one of the novels and prepare it as a monologue.

7. The films are largely faithful to the novels’ plots, but there were some changes made. What were some of the most significant ones? Why do you think the changes were made? If you could change one thing about the movie Saving Shiloh, what would it be?

8. Be a casting director. Choosing from children and adults in your school or neighborhood, who would you pick for the major roles in the films? How about the dog? What kind of training would the dog need to play the role?

9. Filmmakers use dialogue to tell a story, but they also have other tools at their disposal. Pay special attention to scenes that feature little or no dialogue. Discuss how the filmmakers use music or visual images to set a tone or mood, or to advance the plot. For example, the suspense of the scene where Marty and David are exploring the old farmhouse or the final scene when Judd jumps in the water to save Shiloh.

10. Typically, stunt men and women are used in film when a specific scene places the actor in a dangerous position. Make note of scenes where you think stunt artists were used. Explain your thoughts.

11. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote the Shiloh trilogy alone, but each of the films credits a long list of people, in addition to the actors, who worked on the project. Find out more about these various behind-the-camera jobs. What, for example, are the responsibilities of a director, a producer, or a cinematographer?

12. Analysis, opinion, and evaluation are three common types of nonfiction writing. Brainstorm the differences in these types of writing. After viewing one of the Shiloh films, write an analysis, opinion, or evaluation of the film.

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Heroes is a good book because it is an action book. I love action books because they bring suspense. It is sad in some parts like when brooks die. He was killed by a Japanese plane at pearl Harbor. Frank and Stanley find him with a bullet hole in his chest. It is sad in some parts and happy and others that makes it a good book. I recommend it.

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Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel. World War II is raging everywhere else, and it's all anyone can talk about-but so far, the United States has remained neutral. For Frank and Stanley, that means more time to daydream about becoming comic book creators. They've made up their own superhero in the mold of new characters like Superman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman, and with Stanley's drawing skills and Frank's writing skills, they're sure they'll get their own comic published one day.

And then everything explodes.

Frank and Stanley are touring the battleship USS Utah when planes roar overhead, dropping bombs and firing machine guns. Surprised sailors scramble to respond, and as Frank and Stanley take cover they finally understand what's happening: it's a Japanese sneak attack! The United States wouldn't go to war, so the war has come to them.

The boys fight to make their way home amid the chaos and carnage, but disaster and danger are everywhere-from torpedoes and bullets to the shocking cruelty of their former friends and neighbors. Because Stanley's mom is Japanese American, which makes her, and him, "the enemy" in most people's eyes. And try as he might, Frank can't truly understand what his best friend is going through.

If Frank and Stanley make it through this infamous day, can their friendship-and their dreams-survive? Or has everything they know and love been destroyed?

Scholastic | February 6, 2024 | Ages 8 and Up

Gratz does his usual splendid job of creating the visceral drama of battle alongside fully realized characters.

-Booklist - STARRED REVIEW

A gripping, well-researched account of courage and friendship.

-Publishers Weekly

A propulsive wartime story with an earnest protagonist at its heart.

-Kirkus

A Junior Library Guild selection
Amazon Best Book of the Month - February 2024

2024-2025 Tome Society Book Award Winner

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December 7, 1941. Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads-one a Navy pilot, the other a flight crew chief-are stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel.

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I love this book. So much suspense added up when I was reading. It taught me more about an important event in history. My favorite character was Ellen because she was able to pretend she wasn't Jewish in front of Nazi soldiers. If I didn't read this I would be less educated. 10/10

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Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned her attention to writing. She is the author of more than forty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Several books have been adapted to film and stage, and THE GIVER has become an opera. Her newest book, ON THE HORIZON, is a collection of memories and images from Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and post-war Japan. A mother and grandmother, Ms. Lowry divides her time between Maine and Florida. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com

author interview

A CONVERSATION WITH LOIS LOWRY ABOUT THE GIVER

Q. When did you know you wanted to become a writer?

A. I cannot remember ever not wanting to be a writer.

Q. What inspired you to write The Giver?

A. Kids always ask what inspired me to write a particular book or how did I get an idea for a particular book, and often it's very easy to answer that because books like the Anastasia books come from a specific thing; some little event triggers an idea. And some, like Number the Stars, rely on real history. But a book like The Giver is a much more complicated book, and therefore it comes from much more complicated places-and many of them are probably things that I don't even recognize myself anymore, if I ever did. So it's not an easy question to answer.

I will say that the whole concept of memory is one that interests me a great deal. I'm not sure why that is, but I've always been fascinated by the thought of what memory is and what it does and how it works and what we learn from it. And so I think probably that interest of my own and that particular subject was the origin, one of many, of The Giver.

Q. How did you decide what Jonas should take on his journey?

A. Why does Jonas take what he does on his journey? He doesn't have much time when he sets out. He originally plans to make the trip farther along in time, and he plans to prepare for it better. But then, because of circumstances, he has to set out in a very hasty fashion. So what he chooses is out of necessity. He takes food because he needs to survive. He takes the bicycle because he needs to hurry and the bike is faster than legs. And he takes the baby because he is going out to create a future. Babies-and children-always represent the future. Jonas takes the baby, Gabriel, because he loves him and wants to save him, but he takes the baby also in order to begin again with a new life.

Q. When you wrote the ending, were you afraid some readers would want more details or did you want to leave the ending open to individual interpretation?

A. Many kids want a more specific ending to The Giver. Some write, or ask me when they see me, to spell it out exactly. And I don't do that. And the reason is because The Giver is many things to many different people. People bring to it their own complicated beliefs and hopes and dreams and fears and all of that. So I don't want to put my own feelings into it, my own beliefs, and ruin that for people who create their own endings in their minds.

Q. Is it an optimistic ending? Does Jonas survive?

A. I will say that I find it an optimistic ending. How could it not be an optimistic ending, a happy ending, when that house is there with its lights on and music is playing? So I'm always kind of surprised and disappointed when some people tell me that they think the boy and the baby just die. I don't think they die. What form their new life takes is something I like people to figure out for themselves. And each person will give it a different ending. I think they're out there somewhere and I think that their life has changed and their life is happy, and I would like to think that's true for the people they left behind as well.

Q. In what way is your book Gathering Blue a companion to The Giver?

A. Gathering Blue postulates a world of the future, as The Giver does. I simply created a different kind of world, one that had regressed instead of leaping forward technologically as the world of The Giver has. It was fascinating to explore the savagery of such a world. I began to feel that maybe it coexisted with Jonas's world . . . and that therefore Jonas could be a part of it in a tangential way. So there is a reference to a boy with light eyes at the end of Gathering Blue. Originally I thought he could be either Jonas or not, as the reader chose. But since then I have published two more books-Messenger, and Son-which complete The Giver Quartet and make clear that the light-eyed boy is, indeed. Jonas. In the book Son readers will find out what became of all their favorite characters: Jonas, Gabe, and Kira as well, from Gathering Blue. And there are some new characters-most especially Claire, who is fourteen at the beginning of Son- whom I hope they will grow to love.

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All credit to Felix for letting me read his copy! It was really good

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One of my favorite books. It was incredible.

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Not the best book.

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My favorite characters from Shiloh are Shiloh, and Marty.

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This book was really good. I did my literary essay on it.

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In the book, I Survived the Nazi Invasion a symbol is trees. Trees is a symbol in this book because trees grow just like the war is growing. Trees also die just like the war is dying in the book. This shows that trees are a symbol in this book.

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Lauren Tarshis often wonders how she came to spend most of her waking moments thinking about disasters, as the author of the children's historical fiction series "I Survived." Each book takes readers into the heart of history's most thrilling and terrifying events, including the sinking of the Titanic, the Shark Attacks of 1916, Hurricane Katrina, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco earthquake, 9/11, the Battle of Gettysburg and many more.

Lauren conducts extensive research to bring her topics to life. She has traveled to most of the locations where her books are set. Her goal is to open readers' eyes to new chapters in history and to inspire them with stories of hope and resilience.

Lauren is also the author of the the award-winning Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree, and is the editor of Storyworks Magazine.

For more information about Lauren, go to www.LaurenTarshis.com

To learn more about Storyworks, www.scholastic.com/storyworks

And check out the I Survived Website: www.Scholastic.com/ISurvived

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This book is very fun to read I'm so happy I have the second one I love to read Comics like this and it's all about the beach and gumatic and tempting and just makes you want to read more it's very interesting and I hope you read this book to. oh and I give this book five out of five stars

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I love this book

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This book is my favorite because it is funny!!!!

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He is my favorite because he is nice and funny. He is from diary of a wimpy kid

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I love this book! All the books are completely different that is what makes the book so interesting. I rate this book 5 stars.

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A middle-grade book series about Nikki Maxwell's humorous & dramatic life written in diary format by Rachel Renée Russell and illustrated by her daughter Nikki Russell.

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My least favorite character from Shiloh is Judd Travers because he was mean to pets.

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I really liked this book. I recommend it if you like silly things.

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Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, NJ, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places, doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Adults as well as children will recognize such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Superfudge; Blubber; Just As Long As We're Together; and Forever. She has also written the best-selling novels Wifey; Smart Women; and, Summer Sisters. More than 75 million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into twenty-six languages.

She receives thousands of letters each month from readers of all ages who share their feelings and

concerns with her.

Judy received a B.S. in education from New York University in 1961, which named her a Distinguished Alumna in 1996, the same year that American Library Association honored her with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. She has won more than ninety awards, none more important than those coming directly from her youngest readers.

She serves on the boards of the Author's Guild, currently as Vice President; the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, where she sponsors an award for contemporary fiction; and the National Coalition Against Censorship, working to protect intellectual freedom. In Spring 2002, Judy was a spokesperson for the Cheerios "A Book for Every Child" literacy campaign which benefited Reading is Fundamental, America's largest literacy organization. She is also the founder and trustee of The Kids Fund, a charitable and educational foundation.

Judy's first book in the Fudge series, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, was published in 1972. She is thrilled to be celebrating its 30th Anniversary with the publication of Double Fudge. Just as generations of fans have loved the Fudge books, generations of Judy's family have inspired them. Thirty years ago, Fudge was inspired by her son, Larry, and now Double Fudge was written at the request of her grandson, Elliot.

Judy lives on islands up and down the East Coast with her husband George Cooper. They have three grown children and one grandchild.

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Now this was a terrible book because I don't even care a little bit about dresses and just to make it worst there's hundreds.I don't really recommend this book unless you like dresses.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Hundred Dresses is a children's book by Eleanor Estes, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, published in 1944. In the book, a Polish girl named Wanda Petronski attends a Connecticut school where the other children see her as "different" and mock her.

The book centers on Wanda, a poor and friendless Polish-American girl. Although her grades are very good, she sits in the worst seat in the classroom and does not say anything when her schoolmates tease her. One day, after Wanda's classmates laugh at her beautiful Polish last name and the faded blue dress she wears to school every day, Wanda claims to own one hundred dresses, all lined up in her closet in her worn-down house. This outrageous and obvious lie becomes a game, and the group of girls in her class, headed by Maddie and Peggy, mock and corner her every day before school demanding that she describe all of her dresses for them. Her father, Jan Petronski, reveals that due to the constant discrimination directed at his family they must leave town.

The teacher holds a drawing contest in which the girls are to draw dresses of their own design. Wanda enters and submits one hundred beautiful designs. Her classmates are in awe of her talent and realize that these were her hundred dresses thus leading the students to believe Wanda. The students who teased her feel remorse and want her to know this, but they are not sure how. They decide to write her a kind letter and send it to her old address, hoping the post office can forward it. Unfortunately, she has already moved away and does not realize she won the contest.

Nevertheless, Wanda's lovely nature, kind heart, and forgiveness are revealed later when she tells the teacher to give the students the drawings.

It was a 1945 Newbery Honor book. A 2004 study found that it was a common read-aloud book for third-graders in schools in San Diego County, California. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children."

1. ^ "The Hundred Dresses" (starred review). Kirkus Reviews. Contemporary; undated online, with later ISBN. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
"This is off the track for the creator of The Moffats [also illus. by Slobodkin], but it is a story that might well be told to all generations."

2. Kathleen T. Horning, Association for Library Service to Children, ^ The Newbery & Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books, Chicago: American Library Association, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8389-9717-8, p. 68.

3. ^ American Library Association (30 November 1999). "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present".

4. ^ Fisher, Douglas; et al. (2004). "Interactive Read-Alouds: Is There a Common Set of Implementation Practices?" (PDF). The Reading Teacher. 58 (1): 8-17. doi:10.1598/RT.58.1.1. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 7, 2013.

5. ^ National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".

The Hundred Dresses at archive.org

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I really liked this book because it's funny, adventurous, and it's a life lesson.

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One of my favorite books and it always will be 2nd favorite.

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Shiloh was a really sad story. I felt really bad for the dog Shiloh. I liked the story, but I not a lot. Yes, I would still recommend it. To me I feel like it was like other stories we read this year. For example, Because of Winn-Dixie, and Tiger Rising. If you didn't enjoy those books, there's a likely chance you won't enjoy this one. I rate this book 3 stars.

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my favorite book this year is Number The Stars. This book is my favorite book I read this year because it is about WWll and I love books about World War ll. This shows that my favorite book that I read this year is definitely Number The Stars.

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I didn't really like this book that much but I liked it more than the last book though.So I guess I do recommend this book for you.

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Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School is a children's novel by Louis Sachar in the Wayside School series. The book contains mathematical and logic puzzles for the reader to solve, presented as what The New Yorker called "absurdist math problems." The problems are interspersed with characteristically quirky stories about the students at Wayside School.

Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School begins with a foreword from Sachar in character as Louis the yard teacher, explaining the "sideways" nature of the problems within. He says that when he showed the students at Wayside School a regular math textbook, they laughed, thinking it was a book of jokes.

The first chapter introduces Sue, a new student in Mrs. Jewls's class. She is bewildered to discover that the arithmetic lessons involve adding words instead of numbers using verbal arithmetic, e.g., "elf + elf = fool." The book presents an explanation for children of how these problems are solved, and then gives them several to do on their own. In chapter 2, Sue protests that math isn't supposed to be done that way, and gives the class a few traditional math problems like "seven + four = eleven." These are also presented as verbal arithmetic puzzles that are, as Mrs. Jewls states, impossible; the reader is tasked with figuring out why. In the next chapter, Mrs. Jewls tells Sue that if she doesn't understand how to do math in her class, she should switch schools. But when Sue inadvertently gets a question correct, Mrs. Jewls lets her stay. Chapter 4 contains more verbal arithmetic problems, this time with multiplication.

Beginning with chapter 5, the book switches to logic and optimization problems. In this chapter, students have to determine what happened at recess through logical elimination. In Chapter 6, Mrs. Jewls is having trouble filling out report cards because she lost the correct answers to a series of quizzes; the reader must logically deduce those answers based on the scores each student got. Chapter 7 presents an algebraic optimization problem: lunch lady Miss Mush's meals become more and more disgusting the more of them she prepares, and the reader must determine, among other things, how many meals she should cook so that the most students are willing to eat. Chapter 8 involves "false logic" puzzles, with statements presented as questions on true-or-false quizzes. In the final chapter, Sue finally makes a new friend, Joy, who has stayed after school trying to solve her impossible true-or-false test involving the liar's paradox). They go home together.

Charles Ashbacher, writing in the Journal of Recreational Mathematics, called Sideways Arithmetic an "excellent supplementary book for elementary school mathematics, and suggested that the verbal arithmetic problems would be particularly useful in teaching. The Guardian praised the book and its sequel, writing: "Sachar never wastes a moment, a word or a clue."

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Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School - Wikipedia

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Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School is a children's novel by Louis Sachar in the Wayside School series. The book contains mathematical and logic puzzles for the reader to solve, presented as what The New Yorker called "absurdist math problems." The problems are interspersed with characteristically quirky stories about the students at Wayside School.

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Winn Dixie was a good book

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I recommend reading Shiloh for the coming 4th graders. It's sad but has a good ending.

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social themes - physical & emotional abuse (see also social themes - sexual abuse)

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foreign language study / english as a second language

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family - general (see also headings under social themes)

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juvenile fiction / social themes / self-esteem & self-reliance

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social themes - physical & emotional abuse (see also social themes - sexual abuse)

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foreign language study / english as a second language

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juvenile fiction / social themes / physical & emotional abuse (see also social themes / sexual abuse)

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Shiloh (The Shiloh Quartet) [Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Shiloh (The Shiloh Quartet)

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You called the tiger right my least favorite character in the book Surfside girls is the mayor she's getting rid of the main part of the story and it's destroying the whole book but then the best friends catch him and its all good

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The book Lemonade Wars was a ok book. because it's not my kind of book. I didn't really like it.