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Top 100 Children’s Novels #50: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

May 28, 2012 by Elizabeth Bird

#50 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1989) 42 points Previously #56, Lowry’s classic stays at pretty much the same spot on both the old and the new list. And why not? A beautiful book that deserves to be remembered. The plot from the publisher reads, “Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen […]

Filed Under: Best Books, Top 100 Children's Novels (2012) Tagged With: Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

Fusenews: Time to class the joint up

February 28, 2011 by Elizabeth Bird

Nice movie poster, right? Wouldn’t look too shabby in your local cineplex. Well, don’t get too excited quite yet. It seems that Sean Astin (a.k.a. Sam from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) is raising money to start production on this film, to be shot in Denmark. Lowry reports on the process, though she is […]

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