# Lois Lowry — books assigned in US schools

**6** 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:** 3–12
**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

- family (3)
- brothers and sisters (2)
- family life (2)
- Holocaust
- birthdays
- brothers and sisters in fiction
- coming of age
- conformity vs individuality
- courage
- death

## Genres

- Realistic Fiction (3)
- Dystopian Fiction
- Historical Fiction (Middle Grade)

## Every Lois Lowry title on file

- [A Summer to Die](https://readinglist.school/book/a-summer-to-die) _(Grades 9–12 · 1977)_
- [All About Sam](https://readinglist.school/book/all-about-sam) _(Grades 4–6 · 1988)_
- [Number the Stars](https://readinglist.school/book/number-the-stars) _(670L · Grades 4–7 · 1989)_
- [Attaboy, Sam!](https://readinglist.school/book/attaboy-sam) _(Grades 4–6 · 1992)_
- [The Giver](https://readinglist.school/book/the-giver) _(760L · Grades 6–8 · 1993)_
- [Gooney Bird Greene](https://readinglist.school/book/gooney-bird-greene) _(Grades 3–5)_

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