Lowry, Lois

When a bored Princess Patricia Priscilla makes her chambermaid switch identities with her so she can attend the village school, her attitude changes and she plans a new way to celebrate her sixteenth birthday.

Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.

A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.

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

Using family photographs and quotes from her books, the author provides glimpses into her life.

While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.

In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue, " Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen can recall a time when there were no German soldiers in Denmark, when you could walk down the streets without fear or worry. But the soldiers of occupation have been in Copenhagen for three long years, and it looks as if they are there to stay. Sometimes Annemarie wonders if her country will ever be free again. Then the news arrives that Jews are being forcibley removed from their homes. Annemarie's best friend is a Jew. While Annemarie admires the resistance fighters, she wonders: if it were up to her to save her friend's life, would she be brave enough?.