- Science fiction, Fiction, Mother and child, Separation (Psychology)
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Lois Lowry
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 397
- Publisher
- Tai WAN Dong Fang/Tsai Fong Books, Lectorum Pubns (Juv), Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Polish, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780449014462
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“La jeune fille eut un mouvement de recul quand ils lui posèrent le masque en cuir sur les yeux.”
Lois Ann Lowry (/ˈlaʊəri/;[2] née Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences. Lowry has won two Newbery Medals: for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994. Her book Gooney Bird Greene won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry
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