# Lois Lowry — books assigned in US schools

**2** books by Lois Lowry appear in the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Lexile range:** 670L–760L
**Grade span:** 4–8
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/lois-lowry
**Wikipedia (entity):** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- Holocaust
- coming of age
- conformity vs individuality
- courage
- family
- freedom of choice
- friendship
- memory
- resistance
- utopia and dystopia

## Genres

- Dystopian Fiction
- Historical Fiction (Middle Grade)

## Every Lois Lowry title on file

- [Number the Stars](https://readinglist.school/book/number-the-stars) _(670L · Grades 4–7 · 1989)_
- [The Giver](https://readinglist.school/book/the-giver) _(760L · Grades 6–8 · 1993)_

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