Books by Lois Lowry
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review 1: The main mouse--Hildegarde tries to keep the burgeoning parish mouse population from meeting their collective fate through the Great X. We had high hopes for this one, coming off the charming "TumTum and Nutmeg" series. We were disappointed. There were some good moments--the phon...
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review 1: Every day is the same and Princess Priscilla is bored. In less than a week she will be sixteen and at her birthday ball she must choose a husband from a group of ghastly suitors. As a diversion, with the help of her chambermaid, she disguises herself as a poor, humble peasant, sl...
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review 1: Final episode of the quartet. This ties it up nicely - and great story of good vs. evil, and what one person can do to change the world. The series made me think of our lives and the barriers (sea, fences with guards, evil forests) that get in the way of us knowing about other p...
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review 1: The Birthday Ball, by Lois Lowry, is about a young girl named Princess Patricia Priscilla. She is about to turn sixteen, at which point she will have to pick a husband. She doesn't like any of her possible husbands and so she disguises herself as a peasant and begins going to s...
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review 1: I read this out loud with my Sam. He still liked it, but mostly because he's attached to the characters. I thought it was a cute book, but once the show-and-tell stuff started, it was just too long. Really.... it was too much. Both of my kids were bored with it, but insisted ...
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review 1: 3/21/2014February is also the birthday of TWO other presidents: Ronald Reagan and William Henry Taft.Gooney takes special interest and many "moments of silence" with her second grade classmates for William Henry who died after only one month in office.Geography made interesting b...