Louis Lowry

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Louis Lowry

• On a journey through various writing experiences

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Early Days

• An author was born on March 20,1937 in Honolulu,
  Hawaii
• Her career is writing children's books
• Louiss father was an army officer and was
  stationed near Pearl Harbor
• When World War II started in 1939, she moved to
  Pennsylvania
• Also, because she had an military father, she
  lived all around the world
• When she was 11 she moved to Tokyo
• She went to school in New York City
• She went to college at Brown University in Rhode
  Island while her family lived in Washington D.C.

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Life as a mother and wife

• The first couple years of her life as a wife she
  called them nice, pleasant, and interlude
• When she was married to him she moved an awful
  lot with her children Alix, Kristin, Grey, and
  Benjamin
• But, after she said that her sister, Helen, died
  from cancer it was a very bad experience in her
  life
• At college she met Donald Grey Lowry, a naval
  officer
• She quit school to marry Donald and move to San
  Diego, California (with him)

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Pretty, and not so pretty

• After getting her B.A. degree, she was shown
  photography
• Louis best type of photography was children's
  photography which became a life passion and
  profession
• She submitted to be freelance journalist
• As time passed with her career she became a
  not-capable person to be with Donald Grey Lowry
• Then in 1977 they divorced

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Starting a new life after the Break-Up

• As a freelance journalist she put in a story in
  the Redbook Magazine caught the attention of an
  editor, Houghton Mifflin
• The story she wrote was meant foe grown ups but
  it was told through the eyes of a child
• The editor suggested that she wrote a childrens
  book and she did. It was called A Summer to Die
• Then she wrote a book that was her most
  autobiographical work

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Fun and Humorous writing in her book series
called Anastasia

• In 1979, she wrote a series books called
  Anastasia
• The books starts by telling about a very unique
  girl that is very different in her own ways and
  wants to be a writer
• The girl based on one of her daughters
• In this series she is unhappy because she has a
  brother with the name of Sam, and she thinks that
  her name is too long to fit on a t-shirt
• She says if they put my name on a t-shirt the
  letters would go into my armpits!!!"

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Her book The Giver

• This novel is about
• Everything is OK and under control in his life
• There is no violence or fear distracting him
• Everyone has a job in his community
• Then....
• He turns 12 and he is singled out to have
  individual training lessons from The Giver
• The Giver holds the grasp of memories such as,
  the true delectation and sting of life itself
• Now is time for Jonas to understand the truth
• No Turning Back

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Number the Stars

• 10 year old Annemarie Johansen and her friend
  Ellen Rosen are thinking about life before the
  war
• Now, its 1943 in Copenhagen, and in school there
  are food shortages and Nazi soldiers marching in
  their town
• The Nazi wont stop
• HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  !!!!!!!!!!
• The Jews of Denmark are being crushed, so Ellen
  moves in with Annemarie and profess to be part
  of the family
• Then during the tragic war, someone asks her to
  go on a DANGEROUS mission.
• She has to come up with braveness and strength to
  save her best friends life
• No turning back now!

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Messenger

• Strange changes are happening in the Village
• Once a utopian community welcomed outsiders
  (strangers) into their community
• Now, Village is close to outsiders
• Out of the few people who travel to the Dark
  Forest, Matty must supply the message to Seers
  daughter and him, of the Village closing before
  it is to late
• But, the forest become deathly to Matty
• He must FIGHT to get the message to them before
  its to late

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Timeline of Events to 1959

• 1937 Lois is born in Honolulu, Hawaii on March
  20th
• 1939 The Hammersburg fam. Moves to Brooklyn, NY
• 1942 Loiss father goes of to war. Family moves
  to Pennsylvania
• 1948 Family moves to Japan
• 1950 Loiss mom moves family back to PA. Father
  stays in Japan
• 1951 Family moves to Governors Island in New
  York City
• 1954-56 Lois goes to Brown University and drops
  out to marry Donald Grey Lowry
• 1958 Loiss first child is born , Alix
• 1959 Loiss second child is born, Grey