Lois Lowry, author of over twenty novels and twice winner of the Newbery Medal (for The Giver and Number the Stars), was born on 20 March 1937 in Hawaii. Her father was an Army dentist and the family lived all over the world. Now divorced, she lives in West Cambridge with her dog, Bandit, and spends weekends in her nineteenth-century farmhouse in New Hampshire.
"""[A]s haunting as a dream."" — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ""Lyrical, richly descriptive prose ushers readers into a fascinating parallel world inhabited by appealingly quirky characters."" — Publishers Weekly (starred review) ""A beautiful novel with an intriguing premise."" — School Library Journal (starred review)"