new title from the best-selling author of 'The Giver' author is award-winning, having won the Newbery Medal twice powerful, thought-provoking vision of a future society

Lois Lowry is an acclaimed and best-selling writer for children, having won the Newbery Medal twice, first with 'Number the Stars' and then for 'The Giver' , plus many other awards including the Boston Globe Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the Mark Twain Award, the California Young Readers' Medal, the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. She is published in many languages around the world. She is the author of over 20 books for children and young adults, including the Anastasia series. Lois Lowry lives in the US, dividing her time between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.