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Lois Lowry

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Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to parents Robert and Katharine (Landis) Hammersberg. Initially, Lois' parents named her "Sena" for her Norwegian grandmother but upon hearing this, her grandmother telegraphed and instructed Lois' parents that the child should have an American name. Her parents chose the names Lois and Ann, which were the names of her father's sisters

Lowry was born the middle of three children. She had an older sister, Helen, and a younger brother Jon. Helen, three years older than Lois, died in 1962 at the age of 28. This experience informed Lowry's first book A Summer To Die ﻿﻿which is about a young girl who tragically loses her older sister (which is also a subplot of ﻿﻿﻿﻿Number The Stars). Lowry's brother Jon is six years younger than she and grew up to be a doctor. He and Lois continue to enjoy a close relationship

Lowry's father was a career military officer - an Army dentist, - whose work moved the family all over the United States and to many parts of the world. Lowry and her family moved from Hawaii to Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when Lowry was two years old and later relocated to her mother's hometown, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1942 when Lowry's father was deployed to the Pacific during World War II. Lowry's father served on a hospital ship called the USS Hope and on the island of Tinian during the war.

Following World War II, Lowry and her family moved to Tokyo, Japan, where her father was stationed from 1948-1950. Lowry went through junior high school at the Tokyo American School at Meguro, a special school for the children of military families, and then returned to the United States to attend high school. Lowry and her family briefly lived in Carlisle again in 1950 before moving to Fort Jay at Governors Island, New York, where Lois attended Curtis High School on Staten Island. In 1952, Lois entered Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights, New York, where she finished high school. Lowry entered Brown University in 1954. She attended for two years until her marriage at age 19 to Donald Lowry, a U.S. Navy officer, in 1956. Together they had four children: daughters Alix and Kristin, and sons Grey and Benjamin.

The Lowrys moved quite frequently in their early years of marriage due to Donald's military career. They lived in California, Connecticut (where Alix was born), Florida (where Grey was born), South Carolina, and finally Cambridge, Massachusetts (where Kristin and Benjamin were born). The family settled in Cambridge after Donald left military service to attend Harvard Law School. After Donald Lowry finished law school, the family moved to Portland, Maine.

As her children became older, Lowry found time to complete her degree in English literature from the University of Southern Maine[6] in Portland in 1972. After earning her B.A., she pursued graduate studies at her alma mater. It was during this coursework that she was introduced to photography, which became a life-long passion as well as a profession. Her specialty was child photography, but she also took pictures to accompany the articles she submitted as a freelance journalist. It was while working on a freelance journalism piece for Redbook﻿ magazine that Lowry got her first book opportunity, when the article she wrote caught the attention of an editor at Houghton Mifflin publishing. The story Lowry had written for the magazine was meant for adults but was written through the eyes of a child. The editor at Houghton Mifflin recognized an upcoming talent and suggested that Lowry write a children's book. She agreed and wrote A Summer To Die﻿ which was published in 1977. As Lowry nurtured her budding careers, she and Donald Lowry found they were no longer compatible; they divorced in 1977 when Lowry was 40 years old. Lowry said the following of these transitional years of her life: "My children grew up in Maine. So did I. I returned to college at the University of Southern Maine, got my degree, went to graduate school, and finally began to write professionally, the thing I had dreamed of doing since those childhood years when I had endlessly scribbled stories and poems in notebooks."

Writing about both funny things and serious issues has sustained Lois Lowry through her own hard times. Her son Grey was killed in the crash of his fighter plane in 1995. Lowry has acknowledged that this was the most difficult day of her life, but through her steady work as an author, she has persevered. Lowry said, "His death in the cockpit of a warplane tore away a piece of my world. But it left me, too, with a wish to honor him by joining the many others trying to find a way to end conflict on this very fragile earth."

Today, Lois Lowry remains active by not only continuing to write and speaking at appearances, but also enjoying time with her long-time companion Martin Small at her homes in Massachusetts and Maine. Lois takes pleasure in reading, knitting, gardening, and entertaining her four grandchildren.

Lowry wrote of her hope for the future recently on her blog, "I am a grandmother now. For my own grandchildren - and for all those of their generation - I try, through writing, to convey my passionate awareness that we live intertwined on this planet and that our future depends upon our caring more, and doing more, for one another."

Lowry wrote of her hope for the future recently on her blog, "I am a grandmother now. For my own grandchildren - and for all those of their generation - I try, through writing, to convey my passionate awareness that we live intertwined on this planet and that our future depends upon our caring more, and doing more, for one another."

Why do we need to make choices? Wouldn't be better for someone to choose them for you?

We have to make choices cause if we don't we can't move on with our lives i mean if i had to choices between killing someone or dying I would rather die cause i would not take another human being life. It would be worst if someone made your choices because then he/she control your whole life, He/she could tell you what to do. I mean if someone told me what to do (besides my parents and teachers) i wouldn't do it. I control my life no ones elses life. I don't want someone to control my life it ain't fair for someone to do that. That's why we need to make choices. It wouldn't be better if someone chose them for us. I just don't like the idea of someone controling my life. I'll do what ever i want to do.

WHAT IS SOCIETY Dictionary Definition:

A community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activites and interests.

Your definition IN YOUR WORD: A large group of people living in one place sharing each other things a place where everything is peaceful.

CREATE A SOCIETY OF YOURS. WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE?

My society would be kinda like toledo but the economy different (SO IT'S NOT LIKE TOLEDO) ( The enomony would be different.). Mine would have no fighting (WILL YOU CRIPLE THE PEOPLE?) ( I like i said no volence.) everything would be peaceful but if someone broke the law they are banish from the society and can never come back (THROW THEM TO THE SHARKS, YES!) ( By banish i mean kick them out i wouldn't them kill them.) because my society wil always be peaceful. There would be enough healthly food for everyone (THREE SLICES OF PIZZA PER DAY. YOU SOLVED THE OBESITY PROBLEM AS WELL) ( By enough food i mean healthy food. Why would i give them three slices of pizza per day to people.) so there would be no starvation in my society. There would be enough money to go around so no one would be poor. There would be enough homes for each family so no one would be homless.(THERE IS ALWAYS ENOUGH MONEY AND HOUSING IF THEY WERE TO DISTRIBUTES EQUALLY) ( Well not in the world we live in today, the people are poor and the governemt is rich most of the people today can't even afford to have a baby let alone a house.) I will be the president so i can make should that every thing is peaceful. {Mayor? I'd shoot for president of my society. Duh. P.s. You need to spell check TOO!-Rochelle Bauer} ( k then I retype it and where?) . COMPARE AND CONTRAST YOUR SOCIETY TO TODAY'S

My society is better then today's society cause mine has no war, no starvation, lots of money and has homes for everyone. Today's society has war, has starvation, doesn't have lots of money, and doesn't have that many homes so there are homless people walking on the street everyday. I mean why can't today's society be like mine. Why does today's society have to put there nose into other countries problems. My i mean it would be better because my society will stay out of war. My society will not be brought into the wars but my society is like our society today cause it alike. Everything is the same. I mean it looks the same as today's society.